Reply-To: Simon Biggs <[log in to unmask]>
There are the two PhD opportunities here at the University of Edinburgh that
might be of interest to your students or colleagues.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/graduate-schoo
l/funding/design-action/overview
Innovative PhD opportunities working at the interface of industry and design
Edinburgh College of Art is part of Design in Action (DiA), an innovative
Knowledge Exchange Hub funded by the AHRC.
This Scotland wide partnership also includes the University of Dundee,
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Universities of St Andrews,
Abertay Dundee, The Robert Gordon (Gray's School of Art) and The Glasgow
School of Art.
DiA is a national network of organisations (academia and industry) committed
to working in effective collaborations, through the ethos of knowledge
exchange. The aim is to research, develop and evaluate new products,
processes and services through the strategic application of design
principles. DiA will drive innovation through the operation of a radical
'sandpit' methodology.
Each institution will host two PhD candidates, working with a post-doctoral
researcher and a senior Co-Investigator. Each team will work as part of the
collective whole to deliver the methodology and study its application and
outcomes.
The PhDs will produce papers for conference presentations, nationally and
internationally and will also do the following:
Participate in sandpit events where the individual PhD's identified sector
is participating.
Follow successful sandpit initiatives through the process of development of
the prototyping stage to commercialisation
Identify and evaluate the elements that led to the successful outcome of the
sandpit as a process for innovation
Gain insight into how the process of design, used as a strategy for
innovation, is understood within the participating partnerships and specific
sector.
The PhDs will be part of a peer group of ten research students focused on
the collective task of understanding design at a strategic level.
best
Simon
Simon Biggs
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Sue Gollifer
University of Brighton
School of Arts and Media
Director of ISEA International Headquarters
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