PGR

PGR: ResM/MPhil/PhD…

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i-DAT’s research themes and projects provide a rich context for {Full Time or Part Time / local or remote} research students from a variety of disciplines, who can engage with these initiatives and build research activity grounded in their creative practice.

i-DAT’s core supervisory team has more than 70 PhD completions in a broad range of areas (design, software, Games, VR, AI, interactive architecture, robotics, play, and performance).

Supervisory teams draw on collaborating research groups in the School of Art, Design & Architecture / Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Business, Sustainable Earth Institute, and eHealth.

 

i-DAT researchers have been entangled with a range of interdisciplinary supervisory teams, most notably through a collaboration (since 1996) with Professor Roy Ascott’s Planetary Collegium and its Nodes in Italy, Switzerland, Greece and China.

i-DAT is the catalyst behind the CODEX international Postgraduate Research network, in collaboration with Jiangnan University, Nanjing University of the Arts and Soochow University in China.

Applications:

Please contact Mike Phillips to help develop your research proposal and locate an appropriate supervisor before submitting an application through University of Plymouth process for ResM/MPhil/PhD, which can be found here:

[Montreal Biosphere IX / Leonardo 50th / Tate Modern TIWWA #1&#2 / EU Parliament / TIWWA Install / Tate Modern Data Jam / SAT EMDL / CODEX Launch, Jiangnan]

Current i-DAT PhD Supervisions:

Liz Coulter-Smith

Andrew Denham

Christiana Kazakou

Blue Grindrod

Rachel Horrel

Hedy Hurban

Haoyun (Frank) Jiang (CODEX)

Mark Osborne

Ben Payne

Shuo (Grace) Qi (CODEX)

George Simms

Alice Stevens

Donglin (Lynne) Wang (CODEX)

Feng (Francie) Yan (CODEX)

Jie (Jessica) Yan  (CODEX)

Other Research Areas:

Julia Heurling (Planetary Collegium)

Toby Chanter (3D3)

Kate Paxman (Art)

PhD Completions:

i-DAT:

> Dr B Aga: PROTOTYPING RELATIONAL THINGS THAT TALK: A DISCURSIVE DESIGN STRATEGY FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI SYSTEMS

> Lucas Bambozzi Da Silveira PUBLIC LIFE AND PERVASIVE SYSTEMS: A CRITICAL PRACTICE [lucasbambozzi.net/] MPhil

> Dr Ricky Burke: Architectural design for Dementia: Exploring alternate contemporary cultures of residential care design.

> Rosie Brave: Prosthetic Realities, Prosthetic Futures: Challenging the status quo of external breast prosthesis design ResM

> Dr Eleanor Browne: Social and commercial enterprise interactions: Insights from UK business incubators.

> Dr Gianni Corino: Internet of Props. A performative ontology and design framework for the internet of things.

> Dr Stavros Didakis: In Search of the DomoNovus: Speculative Designs for the Computationally-Enhanced Domestic Environment

> Dr Jane Grant: Inhabiting the Uninhabitable: Interdisciplinary strategies for creating other worlds

> Dr Paul Green: A Framework for the Consideration of Narrative in Creative Arts Practice

> Dr Katina Hazelden: AN ENACTIVE APPROACH TO TECHNOLOGICALLY MEDIATED LEARNING THROUGH PLAY

> Dr Coral Manton: Reframing museum epistemology for the information age: a discursive design approach to revealing complexity

> Dr David Strang: Transmission+Interference: A New Materialist and Machine-Oriented Approach to Collectively Make-With Noise.

> Xu Zhang: Guanxi 2.0: social capital within a cultural context revealed by the use of social media by Chinese international students.

Planetary Collegium

Director of Studies:

> Dr Elif Ayiter: GROUND<C>: A METAVERSE LEARNING STRATEGY FOR THE CREATIVE FIELDS

> Dr Isabella Beyer: Le Passage – Towards the Concept of a New Knowledge Instrument

> Dr Jürgen Faust: Discursive Designing Theory – Towards a Theory of Designing Design

> Dr Wolfgang Fiel: DISSIPATIVE URBANISM From Democracy towards a Constitution of Time

> Dr Tommaso Maggio: A Framework For Syncretic Pluriversal Narrative: Somaesthetics and Consciousness in Thai Education

> Dr Jennifer Kanary Nikolov: LABYRINTH PSYCHOTICA – SIMULATING PSYCHOTIC PHENOMENA

> Dr Max Kazemzadeh: Apophenoesis & the Origins of Creativity: Virtual Pattern Recognition, Error, Paths to Consciousness & Augmenting the Evolution of Self.

> Dr Seth Riskin: Light Dance: Beyond the Dichotomy of Light and Vision.

> Dr Denis Roio: Algorithmic Sovereignty

> Dr André Sier (Luis Andre Varela Reis) Building Immersive Environments Towards Non-Human Models of Organizing Against Global Crisis

> Dr Karin Sondergaard: Participation as media: a compositional system for staging participation with reflective scenography

> Dr Andrea T. R. Traldi: BECOMEBECOME A Transdisciplinary Methodology Based on Information about the Observer.

 

Planetary Collegium as other supervisor:

> Dr Peter Anders:  A PROCEDURAL MODEL FOR INTEGRATING PHYSICAL AND CYBERSPACES IN ARCHITECTURE

> Dr Julieta Aguilera: Mindfulness and Embodiment in the Design of a Synthetic Experience

> Dr Laura Beloff: THE HYBRONAUT AND THE UMWELT: WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY AS ARTISTIC STRATEGY

> Dr Tegan Bristow: POST AFRICAN FUTURES: Decoloniality and Actional Methodologies in Art and Cultural Practices in African Cultures of Technology

> Dr Alexander Cetkovic: The (not so) Intelligent House: User Perception in an Interactive Architectural Environment

> Dr Donna Cox: Astral Projection: Theories of Metaphor, Philosophies of Science, and the Art of Scientific Visualization

> Dr Blanka Deroko: The liminal event and its symbols: on the intersection of human and technology

> Dr Diane Derr: Syncretic Narrative: Method for Navigation of Power and Resistance in War and Conflict.

> Dr Regina Duerig: Deciphering the Silence: A Literary Journey to Alice E. Kober

> Dr Luis Girao: Artistic Modulation of Consciousness by Bioelectromagnetic Stimulation

> Dr Diane Gromala: Towards a Phenomenological Theory of the Visceral in the Interactive Arts

> Dr Norbert Herber: Amergent Music: behavior and becoming in technoetic & media arts

> Dr Tiffany Holmes: Eco-visualisation: Combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption

> Dr Claudia Ferreira Jacques de Moraes Cardoso: Space-Time Experience in the Meta-Environment: A Cybersemiotic Analysis.

> Dr Kathrine Johansson: Subject and Aesthetic Interface – an inquiry into transformed subjectivities

> Dr Linus Lancaster: Soils and Interventions

> Dr David McConville: On the Evolution of the Heavenly Spheres: An Enactive Approach to Cosmography

> Dr James Moore: Montage As A Participatory System: Interactions with the Moving Image

> Dr Carlos Moreira Da (Guto) Nóbrega: Art and Technology: coherence, connectedness, and the integrative field

> Dr Juergen Moritz: Towards the Affect of Intimacy

> Dr Sana Murrani-Cooke: UNSTABLE TERRITORIES OF REPRESENTATION: Architectural Experience and the Behaviour of Forms, Spaces and the Collective Dynamic Environment

> Dr Haytham Nawar: A Theoretical Model for the Design of a Transcultural Visual Communication System in a Posthuman Condition

> Dr Nicole Ottiger: INTERROGATING SELF-REPRESENTATION AT THE INTERSECTION OF VISUAL ARTS AND NEUROSCIENCE.

> Dr Andrea Polli: Communicating Air: Alternative Pathways to Environmental Knowing through Computational Ecomedia

> Dr Benjamin Pothier: An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’

> Dr Alejandro Quinteros: SYNCRETIC PRACTICES BETWEEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE: TOWARDS A CRITICAL EPISTEMIC PRACTICE FOR SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT.

> Dr Gretchen Schiller: The kinesfield : a study of movement-based interactive and choreographic art

> Dr Thecla Schiphorst: THE VARIETIES OF USER EXPERIENCE BRIDGING EMBODIED METHODOLOGIES FROM SOMATICS AND PERFORMANCE TO HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

> Dr Ellen Sebring: Visual Narrative: A Theory and Model for Image-Driven Digital Historiography based on a Case Study of China’s Boxer Uprising (c. 1900)

> Dr Yacov Sharir: Beyond the Electronic Connection: The Technologically Manufactured Cyber-Human and Its Physical Human Counterpart in Performance: A Theory Related to Convergence Identities

> Dr Diana Slattery: Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere

> Dr Claudia Westermann: An Experimental Research into Inhabitable Theories

3D3:

> Dr Laura Rosser: The Agency of Error in Post-digital Print

> Dr Dane Watkins

> Dr Katerina Athanasopoulou: Walking away from VR as ‘empathy-machine’: peripatetic animations with 360-photogrammetry.

Art & Sound:

> Dr Emma Whittaker: Transitions-felt: William James, Locative Narrative and the Multi-stable Field of Expanded Narrative

CogNovo:

> Dr Diego Maranan: Haplós: Towards Technologies for and Applications of Somaesthetics

> Dr Christos Melidis: Adaptive Neural Architectures for Intuitive Robot Control

> Dr Michael Straeubig: Designing Playful Systems

ICCMR:

> Dr Candida Borges da Silva: Transeuntis Mundi, A Nomadic Artistic Practice.

Transtechnology:

> Dr Stephen Thompson: Artefacts, Technicity and Humanisation industrial design and the problem of anoetic technologies

> Dr John Vines: Ageing Futures: Towards Cognitively Inclusive Digital Media Products

Fine Art:

> Dr Sara-Jayne Parsons: An accumulation of care: affect in the role of the contemporary curator

Computing:

> Dr Thomas Rogers: Design models for multimedia learning environments based on interactive drama

> Dr Christopher Smith: Paradigms for the design of multimedia learning environments in engineering

Falmouth University:

> Dr Tom Milne: Spatially Immersive Networked Composites: A Media Archaeology of the Photogrammetric Image through Glitch Practice.