Dear Stephen,
this sounds like a fascinating and very worthwhile project and I hope you manage to get quality students to work on it. I am very interested in design history timelines as I have used them as a teaching tool, and I will be presenting a paper at DRS14 about my experience with this.
I would be very interested to hear more about your project as it progresses, and also if you have work already completed in the area I would love to be able to see it.
Best regards
Associate Professor Thea Blackler
School of Design
QUT
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Subject: Fully funded studentship in data visualisation, London (AHRC) - deadline soon
Fully funded studentship in data visualisation, London (AHRC) - deadline soon
Visualising historic time to integrate data across multiple datasets
The Royal College of Art (RCA) and The National Archives (TNA) in London invite applications for one fully funded Thames Consortium Studentship. Funded by AHRC, the three year PhD research programme will be supervised jointly by the RCA and TNA. The studentship begins in late September 2014.
The research
You will undertake a PhD on the visualisation of archive data with particular emphasis on time-wise interactive visualisations such as timelines and other chronographics. The research is intended to break new ground in representing multiple datasets. We see this as a problem of design, technology, and historiography, where data visualisation and interactivity hold the key to making sense of large data sets. This research builds on the achievements of a successful existing PhD project at the RCA. The project complements the AHRC-funded Big Data project ‘Traces through Time’ led by TNA to identify and link individuals across large historical datasets spanning a wide timeframe.
Applicants should normally have at least a 2:1 from their first degree and a relevant masters degree. If in doubt about the relevance of your previous studies, please discuss this with us.
Deadline for applications: midnight (UK time) 28 April 2014. Interviews likely to be week beginning 26 May.
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Information and application here: http://www.rca.ac.uk/ahrc-design-studentship
An indication of past work by the academic director of this research can be seen here: http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/view/creators/Boyd_Davis=3AStephen=3A=3A.html
Stephen Boyd Davis
Research Leader, School of Design
Royal College of Art
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