<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Nicholas Rollings</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:nicholas.rollings@usp.ac.fj">nicholas.rollings@usp.ac.fj</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 06:02<br>Subject: [GIS-PacNet] PhD Opportunity<br>To: <a href="mailto:gis-pacnet@picisoc.org">gis-pacnet@picisoc.org</a> <<a href="mailto:gis-pacnet@picisoc.org">gis-pacnet@picisoc.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:27.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#004251">For your information, great potential here with nationals from Fiji and Solomon Islands in particular encouraged to
apply.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:27.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#004251">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:27.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#004251">Fully Funded PhD Scholarship in Digital Cultural Heritage and the Oceans at The Glasglow School of Art<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The School of Simulation and Visualisation at the Glasgow School of Art is offering a unique opportunity for a <b>full-time,</b> <b>fully-funded, three-year PhD scholarship</b> (fees
and stipend) investigating the role of digital cultural heritage and/or creative response in our emotional engagement with the world’s oceans. Specifically, this research will focus on the ways in which such activity can benefit communities’ dependent on the
oceans and how expressions of these relationships can be shared broadly to facilitate more equitable and sustainable governance of the ocean environment.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Glasgow School of Art is ranked number eight in the top ten art schools in the world*</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> and has
a distinctive specialist, practice-based research culture that is globally recognised. The generation of new knowledge and understanding through creative practice, scholarship and criticism in Digital Cultural Heritage, Digital Visualisation, Design Innovation,
Fine Art, Design, Craft, Architecture and related fields is central to our concept of research. Our researchers include digital heritage and visualisation specialists, artists, designers, architects, historians and critics of international standing.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Applications are invited for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Digital Cultural Heritage and the Oceans from <b>candidates from Namibia, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and South
Pacific island nations (particularly Fiji and Solomon Islands) on the DAC List of OAD Recipients (see </b><a href="http://www.oecd.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#3366cc;text-decoration:none">www.oecd.org</span></b></a><b> ) </b>who wish to pursue a full-time
PhD in the School of Simulation and Visualisation (SimVis) of the Glasgow School of Art. This provides an opportunity for post-graduate students and/or professional practitioners with substantial creative, cultural heritage and/or digital experience to undertake
research within a vibrant and eclectic academic environment.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SimVis is based at the GSA’s Hub campus in Glasgow, Scotland. SimVis is currently undertaking research projects funded via the Arts and Humanities Research Council and multiple other
UKRI funding streams. SimVis is a partner in the Global Challenges Research Fund “One Ocean Hub” (<a href="https://oneoceanhub.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3366cc">oneoceanhub.org</span></a>). SimVis is the lead partner for the Hub’s Ocean Culture Research Programme
that focuses on engaging global audiences with ocean management and sustainability issues, particularly through the lens of projects implemented by beneficiary communities. Applications that align with the objectives of the Hub, especially the Hub’s Ocean
Culture agenda, and seek to amplify the Hub’s contribution to achieving Sustainable Development Goals in partner countries are welcomed.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The successful candidate will join a dynamic team working in this growing and important field of research and practice. We would be particularly interested to receive research proposals
exploring digital cultural heritage and/or creative responses in the following areas:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Digital Visualisation – Immersive systems (VR/AR/XR) and creative responses<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Digital Heritage – including intangible heritage, material culture, arts and culture<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Community Engagement and Digital Media – including community co-deign and co-production<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Digital Advocacy – using digital media, such as immersive media, to promote the agendas of lesser-heard communities and to influence global policy<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Applications close Friday 26 June 2020 for September 2020 start. Applicants must be available for interview (online or in person) in the week beginning 29 June 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Application forms are available here:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.gsa.ac.uk/study/doctoral-degrees/how-to-apply/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#3366cc;text-decoration:none">http://www.gsa.ac.uk/study/doctoral-degrees/how-to-apply/</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For informal discussions contact Dr Stuart Jeffrey: <a href="mailto:s.jeffrey@gsa.ac.uk" target="_blank">s.jeffrey@gsa.ac.uk</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">* QS World Rankings 2020<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr Nick Rollings <u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Head of School<b> </b>and<b> </b>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Associate Professor in Geospatial Science <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">School of Geography, Earth Science and Environment<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
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