[Commlist] Doctoral Scholarship Opportunities - School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University

Two opportunities for fully funded PhDs…please forward to suitable 
candidates.

School of Arts and Creative Industries at London South Bank University 
is pleased to advertise two fully funded PhD positions, commencing in 
April 2021 or ASAP. This is an exciting opportunity to undertake a 
doctoral research project with the School’s two research centres:  The 
Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) and a Creative 
Technologies Research Centre (CTRC).

*Research at the School of Arts and Creative Industries*

Our applied research tackles real-world issues and encompasses a wide 
variety of methodologies and approaches, including practice-based 
research, empirical work on audiences and texts, and theory-driven analysis.

The School is home to two research centres:

 1. Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) brings together
    researchers from cultural studies, contemporary art and media
    practice, and software studies, who seek knowledge and understanding
    of how network culture transforms the production and circulation of
    images. Our aim is to broaden the discussion of the networked image
    to address planetary scale computation and wider ecologies including
    the non-human. See https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/.
 2. The Creative Technologies Research Centre (CTRC) has research
    connections with numerous international research consortia such as:
    The International Association of Public Media Researchers
    <https://www.sbi.business/aceit/home>(leading), the War Games
    Network <http://wargame-uit.wikidot.com/>, The International
    Association for the Study of Popular Music
    <https://www.iaspm.net/>(IASPM), ACES <https://acesuk.org/>(eSports
    researchers), and the Youth Media and Culture Network
    <https://www.youthmediaculture.com/>. The Centre houses four
    Research Groups: The Sonic Research Group, Practice-As-Research in
    Arts, the Games Research Group, and Digital Performance Group.
    Current funded research projects include ELEVATE in collaboration
    with Lambeth Councilwhich addresses career opportunities in the
    Creative Industries for members of the BAME communities. In addition
    we are engaged in two large 3-year European Regeneration Development
    Fund (ERDF) projects: ACE-IT
    <https://www.sbi.business/aceit/home>(£1.2m) explores the creative
    use of immersive media with small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs)
    and R&D-4-SMEs

<https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/lsbu-awarded-6million-to-develop-film-tv-and-creative-industries-in-london-and-s-e>(£6.1m)
    which is building three networked production centres at Maidstone
    Studios <https://www.maidstonestudios.com/>, Folkestone (Screen
    South <https://www.screensouth.org/>with Creative Folkestone
    <https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/>), and at Canterbury Christ
    Church University

<https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/student-life/our-locations/canterbury-campus/daphne-oram>.


Scholarship call details below:

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*Scholarship opportunity 1*: *Networked Curating*

The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) and Whitechapel 
Gallery are pleased to invite applications for a full time, funded PhD 
commencing in March 2021 or ASAP.  We are interested in projects that 
examine the potential of networks - social and technological - for an 
expanded curatorial practice. The topic emphasises the materiality and 
technics of the network apparatus, which has opened up new ways of 
thinking about the agency of machines and their interactions with 
humans. Given that the current pandemic has prompted museums, galleries 
and arts institutions to look anew at their use of the internet as a 
curatorial space rather than simply as a means of dissemination of 
information, our interest is how the technologies we use to curate 
exhibit curatorial agency, and how this enables new kinds of relations 
between curators and technologies (or more broadly, humans and 
machines). Our interests extend to the implementation of automation and 
machine intelligence in the art field; emergent forms of knowledge 
dissemination using collaborative online platforms; and new models of 
curatorial practice.

Questions could be:

What new challenges does online, networked culture present to curating 
contemporary art in galleries and museums?

How are audiences constituted, maintained and engaged in and by online 
curation?

In what ways do algorithms, search engines and platforms curate cultural 
value?

How do human and machines collaborate to curate?

What do galleries and museums need to do organisationally to engage with 
the media ecology of network culture?

The position complements the launch of our collaborative MA Curating Art 
and Public Programmes in September 2021, and an ongoing series of public 
events that it is envisaged the candidate would help to shape.

These initial ideas are not meant to be exhaustive of our interests and 
are used here as illustrations. Proposals should indicate what your 
research topic responds to, what question and problems it addresses, and 
an initial suggestion of method and approach. Proposals can be 
practice-based, empirical fieldwork and/or theoretical in nature. We are 
interested in proposals for curatorial research both in a general sense 
as well as the specific context of the Whitechapel Gallery and its 
institutional character and history.

*About our partner Whitechapel Gallery*

Founded in 1901, the Whitechapel Gallery is a touchstone for 
contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London’s 
cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world’s 
most vibrant contemporary art quarter.

Distinguished for its pioneering exhibitions and public programmes for 
over a century, the Gallery offers visitors the opportunity to engage 
with a rich community of international creative practitioners who are 
regularly invited to exhibit their work and share ideas as part of the 
Gallery’s yearly programme of events.

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*Scholarship 2: Creative Technologies Research Centre*

The School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank 
University, is inviting proposals for PhDs for a Creative Technologies 
Research Centre (CTRC) scholarship award as part of the launch of this 
new Research Centre. We are a vibrant and enthusiastic group of scholars 
working within both the applied and contextual domains.

The Centre aims to explore the use of emerging and novel uses of 
technologies in the Creative Industries. We support the harnessing of 
technologies in new ways for the cultural, civic, economic, 
environmental, and societal good in a wide range of approaches and with 
particular sensitivity to specific technological affordances, and with 
the aim to make real world community impact.

We offer supervisory postgraduate research expertise in a broad range of 
subject areas in digital production technologies within creative 
ecologies, social media, experimental film, sonic culture, and 
electronic music. A particular interest currently is in Virtual 
Production, the convergence of gaming and film technologies to create 
new aesthetics and workflows.

Doctoral students are welcome to work in our research studios at 
Maidstone, Folkestone and Canterbury, as well as our Elephant Studios 
<https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/study/study-at-lsbu/our-schools/arts-and-creative-industries/facilities/elephant-studios>complex 
at LSBU’s London campus at the Elephant and Castle, just behind London’s 
South Bank entertainment district. These include a multimedia journalism 
studio, film studios and edit suites, a 3D sound studio, gaming studios, 
radio studio, and a small cinema.

These topics are not meant to be exhaustive of our interests and are 
used here as illustrations. Proposals should indicate what your research 
topic responds to, what question and problems it addresses and an 
initial suggestion of method and approach.

*Guidance for applicants: *

  Please submit the following documents

  * Cover letter (outlining your interest and suitability for this
    opportunity) and CV
  * PhD proposal of maximum two A4 pages (please ensure that you use
    12pt font)
  * Names and contact details of two referees
*Deadline:*21 March 2021, by 5pm. Send it by email to Rumel Ahmed 
(rumel.ahmed /at/ lsbu.ac.uk) <mailto:(rumel.ahmed /at/ lsbu.ac.uk)>with the subject 
line_: ACI PhD Scholarship_

*Note: *The shortlisted candidates will be interviewed online in the 
week commencing 29 March 2021 and it is hoped that the successful 
candidate will enrol as soon as possible thereafter for the Spring Term 
2021.

The scholarship includes a fee waiver at the Home rate and a tax-free 
stipend of £15,000 per annum for three years.  This PhD scholarship is 
open to UK residents who qualify. Applicants are expected to have a good 
honours degree (2.1 and above). You will be required to show proof of 
all your qualifications, and you will be asked to supply two academic 
references as part of admission process. If English is not your first 
language you will be required to prove your competency in English, 
showing an IELTS scores of at least 7.0 at postgraduate level.

For any questions about ACI PG Programmes please contact Dr Elena 
Marchevska: (e.marchevska /at/ lsbu.ac.uk) <mailto:(e.marchevska /at/ lsbu.ac.uk)>

For any questions about Networked Curating scholarship please contact Dr 
Geoff Cox: (geoffcox /at/ lsbu.ac.uk)

For any questions about Creative Technologies scholarship please contact 
Prof Lizzie Jackson: (lizzie.jackson /at/ lsbu.ac.uk)

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