bath spa – The Writing Platform https://thewritingplatform.com Digital Knowledge for Writers Thu, 02 May 2013 13:48:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Bath Spa PHD Studentships in Digital Creative Writing https://thewritingplatform.com/2013/05/phd-digital-creative-writing/ Thu, 02 May 2013 13:48:14 +0000 http://www.thewritingplatform.com/?p=553 Reading Time: < 1 minute PhD Studentships for practice-based digital creative writing, writing for games, and transmedia at Bath Spa University Bath Spa University has a very strong creative writing PhD programme (both campus based and low residency).  With the Sept 2012 professorial appointments of Kate Pullinger and Naomi Alderman, the university is rapidly increasing the presence of digital literature,... Read more »]]> Reading Time: < 1 minute

PhD Studentships for practice-based digital creative writing, writing for games, and transmedia at Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University has a very strong creative writing PhD programme (both campus based and low residency).  With the Sept 2012 professorial appointments of Kate Pullinger and Naomi Alderman, the university is rapidly increasing the presence of digital literature, writing for games, and transmedia within the creative writing programme.  The university has just announced 10 PhD studentships, available to both international and home/EU students; 5 of these will be creative practice PhDs.

Please get in touch if you are interested, and spread the word far and wide.

The university webpage is here.

PhD and MPhil Fee Waiver Studentships:

Bath Spa University is offering up to ten full-time PhD / MPhil fee waiver studentships starting in the academic year 2013/14. Up to 5 studentships are available for practice based PhD / MPhil awards and up to 5 studentships are available for interdisciplinary PhD / MPhil awards across more than one subject area. These are all linked to the university’s areas of research strength in creativity, culture and enterprise. 
A fee-waiver studentship provides:

-A full tuition and registration fee waiver

-An allowance of £1,800, which may be used across the period of the studentship, to support research needs such as specialist training, equipment or conference attendance

-Opportunities to develop teaching skills by participating in Bath Spa’s CPLHE course, leading to HEA accreditation

The application deadline is 1 July 2013 for an enrolment date of 1 October 2013.

]]> Digital workshops for writers at Mix 2013 https://thewritingplatform.com/2013/03/digital-workshops-for-writers-at-mix-2013/ Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:09:56 +0000 http://www.thewritingplatform.com/?p=400 Reading Time: < 1 minute Following the success of the MIX DIGITAL Conference 2012, The Writing Platform is partnering with Bath Spa University to co-host a second MIX Conference this July. The three-day series of events will take place at Bath Spa University’s Corsham Court campus, a Grade One-listed Jacobean mansion in the bucolic Wiltshire landscape. Day Three of the... Read more »]]> Reading Time: < 1 minute

Following the success of the MIX DIGITAL Conference 2012, The Writing Platform is partnering with Bath Spa University to co-host a second MIX Conference this July. The three-day series of events will take place at Bath Spa University’s Corsham Court campus, a Grade One-listed Jacobean mansion in the bucolic Wiltshire landscape.

Day Three of the conference should be of particular interest to The Writing Platform readers, providing a series of hands on workshops. At ‘The Making Day’ on Wed 17 July attendees will have the opportunity to partake in workshops and introductory sessions run by practitioners, technologists, web designers and digital publishers, giving them the chance to develop their web presence and digital know-how on the spot.

The first two days of the conference will mix academic papers and artist presentations, with keynotes from Naomi Alderman on her prize-winning blockbuster independent game Zombies! Run. and the Literary Platform’s Sophie Rochester on the intersection between writing and technology.

Text on Screens: Making Discovering, Teaching will continue the conversation started at the first MIX Conference in 2012; through a series of high quality papers and presentations of creative works we’ll be talking about text on screen in the many forms it takes including fiction, video, poetry, mobile, locative, and site specific works, non-fiction, games, text-based digital art, and other electronic, hybrid forms. We will discuss classic texts as they are re-imagined for digital platforms and will look at how these works are taught and what they mean for the future of literature.

Mix Digital Conference 2013: Text on Screens; Making/Discovering/Teaching

Date: 15 -17 July 2013

Location: Corsham, England

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