Call for Immersion Fellows
Call for Immersion Fellows We are offering 24 paid fellowships to people from industry and academia to think deeply about the potential, challenges and opportunities in the realm of immersion. Fellowships run from September 2018 through to July 2019, but time commitment for Fellows will be significantly front-loaded to the period September to December 2018. Each Fellow will receive a £15k bursary to support time and research costs. The South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) is a £6.5 million project to expand the use of creative technologies across the region. The network will offer three one-year funded programmes around the themes of immersion, automation and data. The grant is part of Research England’s Connecting Capabilities Fund, which supports university collaboration and encourages commercialisation of products made through partnerships with industry. This new network is led by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), in partnership with Watershed in Bristol, Kaleider in Exeter, Bath Spa University, the University of Plymouth and Falmouth University. Photo by Max Mclure of REACT The Rooms festival Programme Over the next three years the partnership will recruit three cohorts of fellows. Each cohort will run for twelve months and focus on one of three challenge areas: immersion, automation and data. Fellows will be drawn from academia, industry and new talent. The cohort will engage in an initial period of three months deep thinking around the challenge area exploring what’s new, what’s good, where the gaps in the market are, what the challenges are, and what the potentials are.
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