[Commlist] Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Immersive Technologies - Bath Spa University

The Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries at Bath Spa University 
is now advertising for the below full-time, fully-funded PhD Studentship 
in embodiment and narrative in immersive technologies. The PhD will be 
linked to the new AHRC-funded Bristol + Bath Creative Research & 
Development Partnership.

Informal enquiries should be directed to myself at 
(m.freeman /at/ bathspa.ac.uk) <mailto:(m.freeman /at/ bathspa.ac.uk)>.

*PhD Studentship: *
*Embodiment and Narrative in Immersive Technologies
Bath Spa University - Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries*

This doctoral project will be supervised at Bath Spa University based 
primarily in the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries and working 
as a key member of the new Bristol + Bath Creative Research & 
Development Partnership (B+B Creative R&D).

B+Bath Creative R&D is designed to improve the performance of the 
creative industries in the Bristol and Bath region. The partners are 
University of the West of England, University of Bristol, University of 
Bath, Bath Spa University, and Watershed, working with a range of 
industry partners from film and television, theatre, publishing and 
computing. Our core proposition is partnering with industry in 
understanding user engagement in new platforms and new markets. We will 
be working at the sites where 5G connectivity, XR technologies and live 
arts overlap, laying the foundations for the Bristol + Bath cluster to 
be internationally successful by 2030.

To support this cluster, we invite applications for a full-time, 
fully-funded PhD Studentship. Providing academic context, research-led 
theorisation and creative insight that can inform the work of the larger 
partnership, the PhD research will focus on understanding the creative 
and engagement potentials of immersive media technologies in and across 
today’s creative industries. The PhD should explore how emerging 
immersive media technologies are reshaping the ways in which the 
creative industries engage their audiences, and will develop an 
understanding of the untapped narrative-based potentials of these 
immersive technologies, namely virtual reality (VR), augmented reality 
(AR) and mixed or extended reality (MR/XR). While ‘immersion’ is often 
seen as a defining characteristic of these technologies, this PhD will 
move beyond commercial and technical perspectives and should analyse the 
relationship between narrative and engagement in the context of 
embodiment in VR/AR/MR/XR.

The main objective of this PhD is to map the current uses of immersive 
technologies across the South West’s creative industries, before 
developing a set of theoretical understandings for the narrative and 
cross-platform potentials of these embodied technologies across, for 
example, film and television, theatre, publishing, and computing. The 
PhD should also aim to better understand the user implications of this 
embodiment, exploring how audiences make use of, respond to, and 
perceive immersive experiences in different contexts.

The project will be co-supervised by Dr Matthew Freeman (Reader in 
Multiplatform Media & Deputy Director of the Centre for Cultural and 
Creative Industries at Bath Spa University) and Prof Kate Pullinger 
(Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media & Director of the 
Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries at Bath Spa University), 
with additional supervisory input from academic colleagues based at the 
University of Bath.

The successful candidate is expected to enrol in the October 2019 intake.

The closing time and date for applications is *5pm, Friday 12 April 2019*.

Interviews are expected to be held in June 2019.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Matthew Freeman at 
(m.freeman /at/ bathspa.ac.uk) <mailto:(m.freeman /at/ bathspa.ac.uk)> or Professor 
Kate Pullinger at (k.pullinger /at/ bathspa.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(k.pullinger /at/ bathspa.ac.uk)>.

For further information is available here 
<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BQY045/phd-studentship-embodiment-and-narrative-in-immersive-technologies>, 
and to apply online please visit 
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/how-to-apply/research-degrees/.

Please note that CVs will not be considered and those included with 
application forms will be removed. Any queries regarding the application 
process should be emailed to (PGRadmissions /at/ bathspa.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(PGRadmissions /at/ bathspa.ac.uk)>.


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