[ecrea] Collaborative PhD Studentship - Experience Design for Sensory Storytelling

*Collaborative PhD Studentship - Experience Design for Sensory Storytelling*

Applications are open for a three-year full-time Doctoral studentship, 
fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council/National 
Productivity Investment Fund (AHRC/NPIF), to undertake practice-led 
research into creative forms that engage the senses beyond the audio-visual.

Emerging digital creative technologies are enabling the development of 
immersive experiences and installations 
<https://melcher.com/project/sensory-stories/>that engage with audiences 
through senses including touch, taste, smell, thermoception, 
proprioception. This studentship, based at UWE Bristol’s *Digital 
Cultures Research Centre*, offers a unique opportunity for a 
practice-based exploration of this emerging field, and for the 
development of a body of work that will be of significant interest among 
creative practitioners seeking to engage with these novel practices.

Working closely with innovators in the field and through self-directed 
practice, you will explore approaches to the design and production of 
these immersive experiences. You will contextualise these practices 
historically and theoretically, and interrogate what they bring to 
storytelling. The studentship, a partnership with Watershed’s Pervasive 
Media Studio <http://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/>, offers opportunities 
to develop case studies with residents including Sabrina Shirazi 
<http://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/residents/sabrina-shirazi> (OPUS), 
James Wheale <http://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/residents/james-wheale> 
(Understory) and Amy Rose 
<http://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/residents/amy-rose> & May Abdalla 
<http://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/residents/may-abdalla>(Anagram).

Joining an interdisciplinary Design Futures Lab cohort of 12 
collaborative PhD students, you will be part of an innovative and 
cutting-edge group of researchers dedicated to reshaping industrial 
technologies and processes through embedded practice-based research.

The Digital Cultures Research Centre has a strong track record of 
successful PhD completions and the studentship provides access to an 
exciting creative and intellectual community with fellow students 
researching emerging creative practices. We expect research students to 
take a full and active role in the Research Centre and to take part in 
regular workshops, conferences and seminars. *The studentship commences 
October 2017*.

Applicants will be expected to attend an interview in Bristol on either 
July 10 or 11 and demonstrate:

  * imaginative and viable preliminary ideas for research into this
    subject area
  * an appreciation of the nature of PhD study and of both independent
    and collaborative research
  * evidence that you have, or can develop, the skills required to start
    the proposed research

For an informal discussion about the studentship contact 
(mandy.rose /at/ uwe.ac.uk) <mailto:(mandy.rose /at/ uwe.ac.uk)>

*Deadline for applications is 17:00 on Monday June 19.*

Further information regarding eligibility and the application process 
visit: 
http://3d3research.co.uk/information/npif-studentships-general-information-live 
<http://3d3research.co.uk/information/npif-studentships-general-information-live/>

*** NPIF 3D3 PhD studentships are only open to UK and EU applicants ***


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