PhD Studentship: Narratives, storytelling and programming: fostering young people’s narrative and computational skills through game creation (2018)
This PhD studentship includes a stipend and UK/EU fees waiver.
What you get
£14,777 tax free stipend plus UK/EU fees waiver.
Type of award
PhD
PhD project
This project will focus on the ways in which we can simultaneously foster the narrative and computational skills of adolescents through game creation.
The research will involve the development of a programming environment, integrated with Unity 3D, which can provide narrative and computational support for young people as they develop their own 3D story-based games.
The project will involve an evaluation of the environment to examine the extent to which it is successful in improving both the narrative and computational skills of young people.
This project is one of a number ear-marked for funding by the University of Sussex Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Doctoral Training Partnership to commence in September 2018.
This project is in direct competition with others for funding; the projects which receive the best applicants will be awarded the funding.
Eligibility
To be eligible, you need to have:
have an excellent academic record and should have received or be expected to receive a relevant first or upper-second class honours degree
be a UK or EU students who has been ordinarily resident in the UK for the previous three years. If you are an EU student and you don't meet this criteria, you will only be eligible for a fee waiver.
If you are an overseas (non-EU) student, you are not eligible to apply for EPSRC funding, but you can apply if you have access to other sources of funding.
When you apply, you should include a brief statement of your scientific interests and skills/experience for the mandatory "research proposal" section, including how they relate to this project (maximum two pages).
You should also indicate Professor Judith Good as your preferred advisor and clearly state the title of the studentship in the finance section.