DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

DCRC had a strong contingent at the AHRC Digital Transformations Moot (On twitter see: @AHRCdigitrans #digitrans) in London this week where there was a frenzy of networking and sharing of an incredible range of work, culminating with a performance by Imogen Heap demonstrating ‘The Gloves’, a collaboration with UWE’s very own Tom Mitchell.

UWE academics Jonathan Dovey and Shawn Sobers are part of a successful large AHRC 'Communities, Culture and Creative Economies' grant. The DCRC are pleased to announce the success of a joint AHRC grant application: "Media, community and the creative citizen", led by Prof. Ian Hargreaves, University of Cardiff. This £1.4m grant aims to assess the value of citizens' creativity in civic, cultural and economic terms, viewed from the standpoint of the individual citizen and the community.

The DCRC is pleased to announce the release of its initial report from our AHRC Connected Communities project: 'Keeping in Touch'. The project consisted of a small scale scoping project looking at how people use everyday communication technologies to strengthen communities and a significant portion of the research was conducted in partnership with the Knowle West Media Centre.

DCRC researcher Dan Dixon is leading a design ethnography project working with both Punchdrunk, a London based immersive theatre company, and MIT Media Lab's Future of the Opera Group. Punchdrunk and MIT were funded by NESTA's Digital R&D fund to create a mixed-reality, online version of their New York production of Sleep No More.

The University of the West of England (UWE) has been chosen to lead one of four prestigious Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).