PhD Studentship available in Media/Geography
List members may be interested in the following opportunity for PhD funding at Northumbria University. If you have promising students that wish to study for a PhD in media with an emphasis on technology / embodiment / spatiality please encourage them to apply. Although the advert is listed as ‘Media’ the candidate could develop a project utlising geographical literature and ideas.
Details of the studentship and how to apply can be found here: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/researchandconsultancy/graduateschool/prospectivepgrs/studentships/sass/
A blurb about the possible project the successful candidate might develop is below.
1. New Media and the Body (Ref: MED1) Supervisor: Dr James Ash
New Media is a rapidly evolving field of scholarship, but relatively little work has looked at how bodies are implicated in and shaped by new media technologies. This project would allow the successful candidate to develop PhD research around the relationship between technology and the body through an examination of a particular new media technology of the candidates choosing. Possible technologies could include, but are not limited to, videogames, mobile phones or gestural interfaces for example. Possible aims of the project will be to develop ways of theorising these relationships and empirically study how users deal with these technologies in practice.
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Dr James Ash
Lecturer in Media
Department of Media
Northumbria University
Squires Building Room 305c
T: 0191 243 7439
W: http://www.jamesash.co.uk
Office hours (term time):
11-12noon Mondays
1-2pm Tuesdays
