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Universities Ireland, the body which promotes collaboration between universities in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, is offering two - three scholarships to students undertaking a recognised Master’s or the first year of a PhD programme (taught or research) in the other Irish jurisdiction. Dublin Institute of Technology is also a partner in this scheme, which has been running since 2005.
These scholarships are worth £15,000 (approx. Stg £12,000 each). Scholarship winners from the Republic of Ireland will be paid in Euro whilst winners from Northern Ireland will be paid in the Sterling equivalent as converted on the day the cheques are issued. These scholarships must be taken up for the academic year 2013-2014.
The aim of this scheme is to encourage outstanding students from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to cross the border to undertake postgraduate study and experience life in the other Irish jurisdiction. It has been conceived to support the continuing peace process in Northern Ireland and to train highly skilled postgraduates to contribute to a new phase of economic, environmental, social and cultural development for the island as a whole.
The School is pleased to announce a total of FIVE studentships in 2013. This includes one award for an international student, one strategic scholarship and three DEL studentships which are available to national and EU applicants for the 2013-2014 academic year.
International Award:
This will be allocated to the strongest candidate applying for postgraduate study in any area within the School
Strategic Scholarship Award:
Interactive Documentary Design - the Prisons Memory Archive. Contact c.mclaughlin@qub.ac.uk for further information see (www.prisonsmemoryarchive.com)
DEL Studentships:
In addition, there will be up to three additional studentships available for research in any of the following areas:
Sonic Arts (including creative practice in performance and composition)
Drama (including practice-based research)
Film (including practice-based research)
Musicology and Instrumental Composition
ApplicationsAnyone wishing to be considered for one of these awards should submit their PhD application so that it reaches us by 4pm, 21st February 2013. Applications should be made on line, via the Queen's Postgraduate Applications Portal (https://dap.qub.ac.uk/portal/user/u_login.php) |
Contacts for PhD Study:Sonic Arts: Dr Simon Waters s.waters@qub.ac.uk |
Click here to go to the School Funding Pages
The product PatchBlocks has been developed as a research project at the Sonic Arts Research Centre during the last two years. It takes advantage of the flexibility and customisability of software, while taking the form of a physical device. Its design and interaction theory is based in the field of Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs), a new research area that has gained popularity throughout recent years. The product encourages collabora- tion in a shared physical space, as well as a shared virtual space. This collaboration centres on the sharing, inspiring and developing of creative content within a community. The launch of PatchBlocks is planned for early 2013.
In conjunction with the School of English and Oxford University Press, the School of Creative Arts were pleased to host the launch of Professor Marilynn Richtarik's (Georgia State University) new book 'Stewart Parker: A Life'. The lecture and book launch took place in the Brian Friel Theatre on Wednesday 21st November 2012.
Listen again to the lecture:
http://sp-ce.net/sual/2011/sualaward2011_en.htm
Cormac Crawley and Christopher Haworth, two composers working in electroacoustic music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre secured two out of the three prizes in this international competition. The selection process was anonymous and the jury was composed of Belma Bešlic-Gál (Composer/Pianist. Co-Curator of shut up and listen! 2011), Wolfgang Seierl (Composer/Visual Artist. Founder of the Mittersill Composers' Forum, and of ein klang records, Austria) and Germán Toro-Pérez (Composer. Head of the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, Zurich University of the Arts).
Cormac Crawley (IE): 'Port of Call'
http://soundcloud.com/cormac-crawley
Port of Call: The port, as an interface, offers access from land to water, from water to land, north to south and east to west. It is the beating heart of many cities, towns and villages. With a broad band of sound such as the roaring of the ocean our ears often play tricks with us. We may imagine sounds; plucked from its vast spectrum of frequencies.The piece offers a chronological description of how the port has had an ongoing effect on the lives around it. Also presented is the effect that those around the port have had on this once tranquil soundscape; previously only disturbed by nature itself. A montage of sounds emerge from the ocean and develop from natural and harmonious to unnatural and sometimes dissonant depicting human interference and pollution of the soundscape. The struggle between human and environment is portrayed as a sway of events throughout the piece; natural and unnatural.
Christopher Haworth (UK): 'Correlation Number One'
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/sarc/People/PhDstudentsatSARC/ChristopherHaworth/
Christopher Haworth's work explores psychoacoustic phenomena and perceptual idiosyncrasies to call into question common assumptions and received ideas about listening and sonic experience. His recent piece, entitled 'Correlation Number One', uses high frequency tones to generate 'distortion-product otoacoustic emissions' (DPOAEs) in the listener's ears. This means that, in effect, the ear itself becomes an instrument, which the tones coming out of the speakers 'perform' in certain ways to produce sound. What you hear is thus totally subjective, creating a paradoxical situation in which the listener listens to himself listening.
The School of Creative Arts in collaboration with the School of Management proposes to introduce a new MA, entitled MA in Arts Management. This pathway will take advantage of the strong existing links between Drama, Creative Writing, Film Studies, Music and Visual Arts courses and Belfast’s wider cultural sector. Click here for more information
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