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        Date: 2024-03-22 12:15:22+00:00
        From: Melissa Terras <M.Terras@ed.ac.uk>
        Subject: AHRC SGSAH PhD Studentship – Pasts, Presents and Futures of Digitally-Mediated Theatre, Edinburgh

Dear Colleagues,

Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is looking for a candidate to
take up a fully funded PhD scholarship on Digitally-Mediated Theatre. I would
appreciate if you could share this with any potential candidates who are looking
for a funded PhD in this rapidly moving space…

Thanks!

Melissa

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The University of Edinburgh, in partnership with AHRC, SGSAH and the Traverse
Theatre are offering a funded Collaborative Doctoral Award.

In recent years, theatre-makers have experimented widely with how to record and
distribute live performance through digital media and platforms. Since the
return of live, staged performances, profound questions remain about the role,
opportunities, business models and implications of digitally-mediated theatre,
and the ways in which theatres do – or do not – produce digital ‘content’. In
partnership with the Traverse Theatre, this research will study how innovative
contemporary practices for digitally-mediated theatre production can be applied
to create unique, innovative and compelling audience experiences. It aims to
explore how digital theatre assets and content can be produced and distributed
for online audiences, while complementing live staged productions, enabling new
forms of value co-creation for theatre-makers and their audiences. Our findings
will help guide theatre-makers and performers across the cultural sector in
navigating digital futures, building on learning and opportunities developed
during the pandemic, while looking forward to engaging with new digital
innovations, in AI, gaming and immersive technologies.

Key themes and potential areas of further interest for the studentship include:
• Understanding how digital assets and data are produced and distributed as part
of theatre production
• Examining the economic sustainability of digitally-mediated theatre
• Exploring how digitally-mediated theatre offers novel forms of audience
experience and value co-creation, between artists, venues and audiences
• Considering the design of new services and interactions in digitally-mediated
theatre
• Reflecting on the role of data produced through digital media as both an
artistic resource and a resource to support programming, and business
development.
The successful applicant will be expected to tailor these themes, and the
methodology to their research questions and skillset.

Applications are open to both home fee status (including EU nationals with
pre/settled status who meet residency requirements - see document further down
the page) as well as international students. Students who do not require UKVI
sponsorship via a student visa may apply to study their PhD on a part time
basis.

Annual stipend at the UKRI rate, currently £19,237 for 2024/25, for 3 years 6
months full-time (pro-rata part-time), plus PhD tuition fees and individual
research training support grant of £1,750 for conference travel.

Apply for the PhD Design (Full-Time) through the University of Edinburgh’s
online postgraduate application system by no later than: 17 April 2024

For more information see https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/ahrc-sgsah-phd-
studentship-pasts-presents-and-futures-digitally-mediated-theatre


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Professor Melissa Terras
Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art
University of Edinburgh
@melissaterras


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