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[Commlist] PhD funding to research the challenge of delivering equitable provision of future media in the context of growing digital inequalities.
Mon Jul 04 17:16:18 GMT 2022
*PhD funding to research the challenge of delivering equitable provision
of future media in the context of growing digital inequalities.*
The University of Liverpool and BBC R&D are offering a 4-year full-time
EPSRC/BBC funded PhD studentship, to start in October 2022. Funding
covers fees and provides a £16,062 annual living allowance plus a £5,000
training and development support budget.
The successful applicant will research the challenge of delivering
equitable provision of future media in the context of growing digital
inequalities.
Data-centric technologies, including AI, are at the centre of the BBC
technology and innovation plan and will transform audiences’ experiences
in the future. However, not everyone has equal access nor the same
capacity to engage and benefit. People who are excluded are often
already experiencing social, cultural, and economic marginalisation. As
part of the BBC’s commitment to universality, this PhD will contribute
to understanding digital inclusion in a data-driven society. The PhD
will undertake research to that can support technology policies and
strategies that will address individual’s and household’s ‘digital
living standards’.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/research-themes/digital/minimum-digital-living-standard/
<https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/research-themes/digital/minimum-digital-living-standard/>
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/research-themes/centre-for-digital-humanities/projects/digital-living-standard/
<https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/research-themes/centre-for-digital-humanities/projects/digital-living-standard/>
It will sit alongside UK studies led by the University of Liverpool
exploring digital inclusion and digital lived experience. We are
looking for candidates with a good methodological background –
preferably mixing both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Disciplinary backgrounds may vary across social sciences – Media &
Communications, Sociology, HCI, Information Studies, Politics or related
disciplines.
The student will be supervised by Professor Simeon Yates at the
University of Liverpool and Dr Rhianne Jones from BBC R&D (based in
Salford’s Media City and Central London).
The studentship is part of a wider multidisciplinary cohort of four
industrial PhD projects: /Designing for All/ (BBC R&D blogpost)
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-03-phd-research-fund-public-service-digital-equality-designing-for-all> There
will be opportunity to conduct research at the BBC, and to collaborate
with the other students in the cohort. In addition to PhD fees and a
generous enhanced stipend, the studentship also covers travel, research
costs and equipment.**
**
*The Person*
This is a multidisciplinary research challenge. We are keen to receive
applications from people from Sociology, Media & Communications, HCI,
Information Studies, Politics or related disciplines or with relevant
professional experience. Key areas of interest are:
* digital media; social and digital inequalities; digital inclusion;
data-driven technologies; value-sensitive design; responsive
innovation; public service media
* quantitative and qualitative methods; co-production; participatory
design; deliberative inquiry; speculative design; prototyping.
The successful applicant should have the equivalent of a UK a first
class or high upper second class honours degree and preferably a Masters
or comparable professional experience.
A key aim of this cohort-based studentship is to develop future research
leaders with experience of working in multidisciplinary teams and across
academic and industry contexts. Candidates should expect to learn new,
cross-disciplinary skills, including those related to empirical research
design, data science/analysis and cutting-edge technology.
*How to Apply*
Applications should be submitted via the Postgraduate Online Application
systemhttps://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/how-to-apply/
<https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/how-to-apply/>
*Important: When completing the form please ensure the following:*
Under Programme Applied For select: *Communications and Media - Doctor
in Philosophy (PhD)*
Under Finance select: *Studentship *and put “*Reference BBC iCase
award*” as the type of studentship.
Applications should be accompanied by a personal statement of no more
than two pages describing:
* Your research interests, a central question for this project and an
indicative methodology
* Your experience to date that makes you suitable for this
studentship, and what you would learn through this opportunity
* the impact you hope to make through working with us on this project.
Applicants applying for more than one of the ‘/Designing for All’
/studentships should indicate this in their personal statement.
*For queries about the application process: *(pgarts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)
<mailto:(pgarts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>**
*For further Information about the PhD: *Prof.**Simeon Yates
((simeon.yates /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(simeon.yates /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>) or
Dr Rhianne Jones ((Rhia.Jones /at/ bbc.co.uk) <mailto:(Rhia.Jones /at/ bbc.co.uk)>).**
Interviews will take place in late July 2022
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