PhD Studentships in Digital Media
Eligibility: UK/EU Students Only
Award Details: Tuition Fees + Maintenance grant: £13,726 per year
Duration: 3 years Fixed Term (Sept 2014 start)
Application deadline: 25 July 2014
Interview Dates: 3 September 2014
The Project
Coventry School of Art and Design conducts world-leading research and is offering exciting PhD opportunities through a number of bursaries for students to work with our professors and other researchers.
In addition to more mainstream and theoretical approaches, research projects may be practice-based where appropriate. They will be pursued within or across our broad research areas of media, creative arts, performing arts, and industrial/transport/3D design,. We are particularly interested in:
Digital Media – specifically, the development of a critical Digital Humanities that explores how open access, open education, open data, p2p networks or ‘internet piracy’ can be used to creatively disrupt core arts and humanities concepts such as the author, subjectivity, originality, the book, the archive, ownership, copyright and the (post)human.
The topic is part of a larger critical and creative investigation in the school into Disruptive Media and Open Media. As such, the successful candidate will be part of a team of researchers, Research Fellows and PhD students with many contacts in the UK and internationally through their work on projects such as Culture Machine, Open Humanities Press, Living Books About Life and Disrupting the Humanities.
Candidate specification:
A good honours degree, and ideally an MA, in an appropriate digital media-related subject.
Eligibility:
Only UK/EU citizens may apply with the academic requirements as listed on: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/research-entry-criteria/
Application Procedure:
For an application form please see: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/phd/.
Complete the application form and return with a covering letter to:
Research Recruitment and Admissions team
RAO
Student Centre
Coventry University
Priory Street
COVENTRY
CV1 5FB
United Kingdom
Email: research-apps.pg@coventry.ac.uk
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof Martin Woolley: email: aa7968@coventry.ac.uk.