Deadline for entries
Mon 21 Aug 2023 - 10:00
Fellowship in Residence: Making The World Differently
Image from Playable City Seoul by Jon Aitken
Applications are now open for an exciting Fellowship hosted by Watershed’s Talent Development team. This paid fellowship is open to people aged 18-30 years old.
The Fellow will spend 10 months researching the question - What skills and training opportunities do young people need for a career in creative technologies? The Fellow will work with young people to undertake action research about what training and skills opportunities are required, and what support might mean in practice. They will work in a team of Producers to help design, deliver and reflect through 10 months of activity.
We will award one person £20,000 for 10 months at roughly 2.5 days/week. You will be contracted and paid via the University of Bristol but managed by Watershed.
Victoria Tillotson, Talent Development Lead at Watershed, says:
“Watershed’s Talent Development team produce a year round programme of events and opportunities that support early career creatives to develop practice and access pathways into the creative technology industries. Through our work, we have found there is a lot of available research into what the creative technology industries want from young people, but little on what young people need from them. We are delighted to host this Fellowship to find out. We look forward to sharing our Fellow’s learnings with the sector.”
What is Action Research? A research method that “tackles real-world problems in participatory, collaborative, and cyclical ways in order to produce both knowledge and action” (Zina O’Leary). For this Fellowship, we are looking for people who are interested using this collaborative ‘learning through doing’ method, to investigate the skills and training opportunities young people need for a career in creative technologies.
What is a Fellowship? MyWorld is a creative technology programme that Watershed are a partner of.
As part of MyWorld, Watershed and other organisations in the West of England are hosting Fellowships - where individuals work with organisations for a set period of time with a specific research focus.
Our MyWorld Fellowships are aimed at freelancers, practitioners, industry, and academics. We invite people to think about these Fellowships as a period of collaborative thinking and experimentation, applying practice, expertise or relevant experience. This Fellowship is hosted by Watershed, based at the Pervasive Media Studio.
MyWorld believe our work will be stronger with greater diversity and welcome applications from those who are currently underrepresented in the culture, technology and higher education sectors. We understand that each of us brings our experiences, our backgrounds and our own unique lens to what we do so no one is expected to represent any specific groups.
This Fellowship is part of Watershed's MyWorld IDEAS programme, funded by UKRI. You can read more about MyWorld here.
The application process:
You are invited to answer two questions on an online form focusing on how you meet the criteria for the Fellowship in residence, and why you would like to undertake the opportunity.
Shortlisted applicants will then be invited to interview with members of the MyWorld partnership and Watershed.
Find out everything you need to know about the theme, the opportunity, the application process, timeline and FAQs here:
https://wshd.to/mtwdfellowshipfaq
Fellowship In Residence Large Print Brief
Apply here: https://wshd.to/mtwdfellowshipapplicationform
Application Deadline: Monday 21 Aug 2023, 09:00
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