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PhD Studentships in The School of Creative Industries

Two full-fees, 4-year, full-time PhD studentships focusing on Spatial and Immersive Audio Practices in the School of Creative Industries at The University of Gloucestershire (CHELTENHAM) starting September 2023. Applicants must have a BA Hons of at least 2.1 standard or equivalent and a Masters’ Degree in a relevant discipline. Both theoretical and practice as research approaches are welcome. Open to UK/Home students. Fees are yet to be set for academic year 23/24 but for 22/23 they were £5000 p/a.

Production technologies are becoming increasingly available for a range of practitioners working across a variety of specialisms and sectors. At a time when hearing and listening are enabling us to investigate and understand our place in a changing world, the challenge is to populate and define this new immersive ‘soundscape’, by considering how ideas, concepts, and practices are facilitating new modes of auditory experience.

Postgraduate research in the School of Creative Industries spans three subject areas, Film, Television & Animation, Journalism & Communication, and Music & Sound. Please see our postgraduate research pages for more information: https://bit.ly/3RJpjnU. These fully-funded PhDs are designed to facilitate postgraduate research in the context of one or more of the following thematic specialisms in the School of Creative Industries:

·       Spatial audio practices in music/film production – emerging discourses in composing for spatial and spatialising production

·       Spatial audio and Immersive storytelling – spatialisation as a film, televisual or journalistic narrative device, issues of authenticity and realism


·       Soundscape, ecomusicology and environmentalism – field recording and immersive listening  


·       Spatial audio events – sound systems, immersive spaces, emerging paradigms for spatialising live performance and sound design at events

·       Spatial audio and audiovisual practice – emerging discourses and explorations of spatial audio in the context of screen media, projection, and installation 

How to apply: 

Please send a brief CV (max 2 pages) and a proposal that adheres to the following template https://www.glos.ac.uk/information/knowledge-base/how-to-write-a-research-proposal/

To. Professor Abigail Gardner, School of Creative Industries, Park Campus, The University of Gloucestershire

agardner@glos.ac.uk

Closing date:  30 June 2023 

Selection process: Short-listed candidates will be invited for interview at the University of Gloucestershire, Park Campus, Cheltenham or by zoom/teams in early/mid-June tbc.