EPSRC/AHRC FUNDED Digital Media PhD Research Studentship Personal Narratives and Computational Provenance, London

July 15, 2010

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Job Description: This studentship will form part of the interdisciplinary EPSRC/AHRC funded PATINA collaborative research project. PATINA aims to provide researchers of all kinds, including academics, creative practitioners and citizen researchers, with new opportunities to create research spaces that integrate physical, digital and personal space and support the sharing of research activities as well as results. The consortium will build wearable prototypes that can enhance research objects by projecting related information back into their research space. The PhD research will investigate the relationship between the researcher’s ‘research journey’, its capture in the archive and how it is replayed and shared with others.

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Background and Context
The University of Greenwich is offering a fully funded PhD studentship, based at the University`s Institute of Converging Arts and Sciences (ICAS), to explore the relationship between computational (data) provenance and personal narrative as archival forms. This is an exciting opportunity for interdisciplinary research, forming part of the multidisciplinary project PATINA (Personal Architectonics of Interfaces to Artefacts), which is a collaboration between six universities, (Greenwich, Bristol, Brighton, Newcastle, Southampton and Swansea) and involves researchers from the humanities, the arts and computer science.

Funded by the EPSRC and the AHRC through the RCUK Digital Economy programme, this £1.7 m project will provide researchers of all kinds, including academics, creative practitioners and citizen researchers, with new opportunities to create research spaces that emphasise the primacy of research material, and support the sharing of research activities as well as results. The consortium will build wearable prototypes that can enhance research objects by projecting related information back into their research space. These technologies will also provide the means to capture, record, and replay the researcher`s activities to support intuitive archiving, sharing and publication of interactions with research objects. The design of the technologies will draw on theoretical frameworks of space developed from studies of research spaces as diverse as libraries, museums, homes and archaeological fieldwork sites.

Role Description
The PhD Studentship field of study will be situated within the established body of research that explores the relationship between history and archive, and within the study of categorisation systems through which it is possible to articulate knowledge and being. The project will focus on the researcher’s interaction with the research object and with the archive that is created of his or her activities. It will examine the relationship between the researcher’s ‘research journey’, its capture in the archive and how it is replayed and shared with others. It will explore and establish links between the researcher’s personal narrative and the field of computational provenance, which seeks to model ways of recording and representing the history and therefore the authority and viability of data and information generated within computer systems.

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