[Commlist] post- PhD Scholarship available: Explore education and industry practices around new screen technologies

/PhD Scholarship available at the University of South Australia: Explore 
education and industry practices around new screen technologies/

If you are seeking to advance your career in the arts and interested in 
the emerging fields of virtual production or virtual reality 
storytelling, the University of South Australia – Australia’s University 
of Enterprise – is offering a contemporary and innovative  project-based 
PhD within UniSA Creative.

The advent of new screen storytelling formats, technologies and 
production styles raises questions for practitioners and educators in 
relation to collaborative practices, skills development, and training. 
Several Australian tertiary institutions have recently introduced 
courses in virtual production or virtual reality (VR); however, 
questions relating to best practice are hampered by the quickly evolving 
nature of the area.

This project seeks to explore the intersection of creative practice, 
technology and education. There is scope for you to shape the project to 
incorporate your own research interests, but a potential avenue of 
inquiry might include the challenges and opportunities that new screen 
storytelling formats, technologies and production styles create for 
practitioners in relation to project development and/or methods of 
collaboration.

You might also want to address how these formats, technologies and 
production styles can best be addressed in tertiary education and 
industry-based learning contexts. These areas might be explored through 
a critical study of emerging educational and/or industry approaches, 
through creative practice research, or through a mixed methods approach.

You have the opportunity to develop a dissertation or creative artefact 
and exegesis that provides new knowledge about industry and/or 
educational best practice in the area of virtual production or VR 
storytelling.

UniSA Creative encompasses film and television, game design, digital 
media and visual art areas, teaching and researching across multiple 
campuses. You’ll have access to world-class facilities, including a 
multipurpose TV studio that includes live and recorded broadcast 
facilities, a motion capture studio, a VR studio and large green screen.

The project also complements work undertaken in UniSA’s Australian 
Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE), which 
has a significant track record as a world leader in AR and VR research. 
Having access to both areas will allow you to draw upon a wealth of 
expertise and foster interdisciplinary understandings of virtual 
production and/or virtual reality storytelling.


Financial Support

This project is funded for reasonable research expenses. Additionally, a 
living allowance scholarship of $28,854 per annum is available to 
eligible applicants. Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander 
applicants will be eligible to receive an increased stipend rate of 
$45,076 per annum.


Where you’ll be based

You will be based within UniSA Creative, incorporating the South 
Australian School of Art, which brings together the disciplines of 
architecture, planning, art and design, journalism, communication and 
media, film and television and the creative industries to produce 
flexible graduates with multidisciplinary capabilities.


Eligibility and Selection

This project is open to applications from both domestic and 
international applicants. Applicants must meet the eligibility criteria 
<https://unisa.edu.au/link/09d9d7db464040b4af48e46c0a820297.aspx> for 
entrance into a PhD.

Applicants should also submit a full research proposal (approximately 
2500 words) that has been developed in consultation with the proposed 
principal supervisor.


Essential Dates

Applicants are expected to start in a timely fashion upon receipt of an 
offer. Extended deferral periods are not available. Applications close 
on Sunday 6 November 2022.


For more information see: 
https://unisa.edu.au/research/degrees/new-screen-technologies-exploring-practices 
<https://unisa.edu.au/research/degrees/new-screen-technologies-exploring-practices>


Enquiries to: (kath.dooley /at/ unisa.edu.au)




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