[csaa-forum] DEADLINE EXTENDED Re: Two 3-Year PhD Stipends at RMIT's GEElab: Game Design For Future Cities/Game Design For Popular Entertainment

[TANIA Lewis]

Hi all
Please note that the application deadline for the PhD stipends
(advertised below) has been extended to:

TUESDAY, 10 APRIL 2012

Thanks
Tania

Am 29.02.2012 um 12:27 schrieb Dr Steffen P Walz:

> RMIT University's Games & Experimental Entertainment Laboratory
(GEElab) is offering two 3-year full-time PhD stipends, to highly
motivated Australians or New Zealanders. At the GEElab, an international
research team is investigating how game design thinking can affect and
alter architecture & urbanism, mobility, popular media & storytelling,
engagement as well as other sciences, cf. www.geelab.rmit.edu.au. The
GEElab operates sites at RMIT's School of Media and Communication in
Melbourne, Australia, as well as in Stuttgart, Germany (GEElab Europe).
>
> Both PhD stipends contain an uplift for EU loading and run at
AUS$30,000 tax-exempt p.a. each, over the course of three years. With
these stipends come one-off relocation allowances as well as funding for
an optional German language course if the successful applicants are not
proficient in German. In addition, the GEElab will sponsor project cost
as well as conference travel given circumstances. It is intended that
the successful candidates will commence as soon as possible in
Melbourne, and relocate to Germany in May or June of 2012.
>
> 3-Year PhD Stipend: Game Design for Future Cities
> This stipend supports a doctoral student and is linked to the question
how game design methods as well as playfulness can, methodologically and
practically, serve as design principles and design results for the city
and for citizens of the future, tackling fields such as urban well-being
and liveability, citizen engagement as well as sustainability. The
successful applicant will be required to spend most of her/his stipend's
time on extended field research in the Stuttgart–Karlsruhe high tech
industry region in the southwest of Germany, as well as in other RMIT
GEElab sites, if necessary.
>
> 3-Year PhD Stipend: Game Design for Popular Entertainment
> This stipend supports a doctoral student who will explore, in an
applied fashion, under which conditions established forms of popular
culture (e.g. sports, music, fashion), or media (e.g. TV, movies,
textbooks, museums) can become interactive, enhanced, and potentially
co-created entertainment experiences that have been inspired by games,
and what social and cultural implications, novel uses and contexts these
scenarios render. The successful applicant will be required to spend
most of her/his stipend's time on extended field research in the
Stuttgart–Karlsruhe high tech industry region in the southwest of
Germany, as well as in other RMIT GEElab sites, if necessary.
>
> Please find detailed information about these stipends - including
selection criteria and application procedure - at
www.geelab.rmit.edu.au/display/GeeWebEN/Positions.
>
> Applications for both stipends close Saturday, 31 March 2012.
Interviews for both stipends will take place in April of 2012 (after
Easter) in Melbourne. Please direct all enquires regarding these
opportunities by Email to GEElab director Dr Steffen P Walz:
steffen.walz at rmit.edu.au.


Associate Professor Tania Lewis
Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow
School of Media & Communication
RMIT University
Building 36.3.7 City Campus
GPO Box 2476, Melbourne VIC 3001
Australia

ph: +61 3 9925 2406
fax: +61 3 9639 1685
email: tania.lewis at rmit.edu.au

web: www.rmit.edu.au/staff/tania-lewis