Immersion Fellow Opportunities

The South West Creative Technology Network 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.

We are looking for people who combine an original R&D perspective on the theme with an open and exploratory approach. Fellows will work individually and within a cohort to engage in deep thinking, discussion and critique; drawing out potential opportunity and challenging current assumptions. They will be supported to spend time on an individual line of enquiry, developing new knowledge that can be shared with the cohort and more broadly.

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. Academics must be based at one of our University partners, others will have a connection to the South West.

Each Fellow will receive a £15k bursary to support time and research costs.

More details here – https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/opportunities/apply-be-immersion-fellow

British Digra Discord Channel

As discussed as the annual meeting in June at the bDigra Conference we were asked to explore a method of communication and community that would allow information about events to be shared easily – the community voted and here is the discord channel you overwhelmingly voted for. We would continue to maintain the website (http://bdigra.org.uk/) and promote the e-mail list (http://mail.digra.org/mailman/listinfo/uk).

Hopefully this will work as a way to continue the conversations, share events and scholarly things that started at the 2018 conference and work to build to community. The link is here – https://discord.gg/bQuGQcF