As I Lay Dead

As part of my PhD thesis on smartphone storytelling, I’m creating a locative audio narrative designed to be experienced while listeners walk through London’s Brompton Cemetery. The work engages with the many stories that lie buried in the cemetery alongside their owners, weaving them into a fiction that gives the listener a role to play…

Impact and the research-and-practice PhD (i): some definitions of impact

Last week, I gave a paper at the Bath Spa University Early Stage Researchers Conference. The theme of the conference was impact, and my paper attempted to explore what impact might look like for a PhD like mine, combining research and practice in the humanities. This post comprises a reworked version of the first part…