Course details
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Overview
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CODEX focuses on art and design practices that engage with social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges and the new behaviours generated through the catalyst of technological innovation.Sourced from an international community of designers and artists CODEX provides a critical, experimental and provocative environment for exploring material and immaterial influence on potential futures.CODEX actively seeks to establish art and design practices that cultivate new transcultural, transdisciplinary perspectives on a complex world. It does this by nurturing innovation through practice-driven research and a synthesis of conventional and emergent methodologies
The collaborative research framework cultivates a critical engagement with emergent art and design forms, practices and behaviours. It fosters a beneficial entanglement and reciprocity with other disciplines, communities and ecologies. In an attempt to unpick the easy rhetoric that surrounds ‘cross’, ‘inter’ and ‘trans’ disciplinarity it explores the difficulties of these marriages of inconvenience.
The impact of CODEX reaches far beyond the comfort zone of the creative and cultural industries to actively engage with science and technology agendas. It encourages entrepreneurial aspirations and supports industrial, commercial and community engagements through work placements, collaborations and residencies.This full-time doctoral programme is suitable for people who have a particular research question or topic in mind, and wish to explore this through independent study in order to produce an original contribution to the subject. If you aspire to a research career this is the most appropriate research degree to undertake.You will be guided by a small supervisory team of academic experts under the direction of a Director of Studies.If you do not already have a masters degree, you may be interested in one of our masters level research degrees (which enables a transfer directly into the PhD programme if you are making excellent progress), or else an MPhil degree. Further details about theUniversity’s research degree awards .You will be expected to fully engage with skills development and training and to present your research in a range of scholarly contexts.Your PhD will be assessed via submission of either a written thesis (approximately 80,000 words), or one that combines critical writing with artistic, creative and/or professional practice, and a viva voce (an oral examination).For full details of what doing a PhD entails at the University of Plymouth, please visit ourPostgraduate research degrees pages .Core modules
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Research Skills in the Arts, Humanities and Social SciencesThis module provides research students the opportunity to explore the creation and interpretation of new knowledge within their field; develop the students’ ability to conceptualise, design and present their theses to merit publication; advance the students’ academic enquiry skills and techniques; and to generate and share the new knowledge within their academic discipline and professional practice.
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Final year
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Entry requirements
Fees, costs and funding
How to apply
- Research project title.
- Outline of the general topic or area of research.
- Explanation of key terms and references.
- Indicative research questions or identification of the problem.
- The context and disciplinary field(s) in which the research sits and will contribute to.
- The significance and potential impact of the research.
- Proposed research methodology and why (i.e., how this will answer your research questions).
- References and identification of relevant literature, practitioners, and influential works.
- Ethical and intellectual property issues.
- A portfolio representing relevant creative skills and practice.
Interviews will be held by video conference or in person in China.
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CODEX research network:
The Network comprises each research laboratory or university that joins the CODEX programme to provide supervision and research facilities to support students during the mobility period.
- China National Light Industry Key Laboratory of Industrial Design.
- Experience Design Frontier Methodology and Technology Innovation Research Centre.
Supporting your studies:
Infrastructure:
- CODEX residency: This is the period In which students will be situated at each of the two institutions, comprising 50 per cent of the PhD in the University of Plymouth (or satellite sites) and 50 per cent in the collaborating University in China (or satellite sites). This period in residence will be augmented by participation in other research cluster activities and cultural visits.
- CODEX lab: The lab or studio space that CODEX research students will work in during their residency. This space requires access to and support of collaborative and individual design and fabrication activates.
- CODEX composite sessions: Sessions provide an intensive period where CODEX cohorts overlap and share their research and experiences. The sessions ensure that new knowledge is shared across the separate years of the community and provide a vehicle to support the workshops and symposia.
- CODEX tutorials: Tutorials are regular individual meetings between students and their supervisors.
- CODEX symposium: The annual public research conference/exhibition to support research dissemination to the wider research community, the public and for industrial engagement. The symposium will make use of a variety of spaces and sites, including networked and virtual environments. The symposium also provides routes for further dissemination through a variety of digital and traditional publishing models.
- CODEX workshops: Focused experimental design and production activates that adopt a variety of fabrication and technological methods to support experimentation and making, combined with critical theory to nurture reflexive praxis.
- CODEX link: The link supports communication across the research community through a variety of technologies, such as video conferencing, social media and virtual environments. This supports the management and supervisory meetings as well as collaborative projects and workshops between the UK and China. The link also puts in place the framework to support a highly connected and interactive alumni involvement with the CODEX community.
- CODEX research network: The network comprises each research laboratory or university that joins the CODEX programme to provide supervision and research facilities to support students during the mobility period.
University of Plymouth supervisors
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Professor Alessandro Aurigi
Professor of Urban Design
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Dr Gianni Corino
Associate Professor in Interactive Media
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Mr Peter Quinn Davis
Associate Head of School - International
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Dr Mathew Emmett
Associate Professor in Architecture
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Dr Jane Grant
Associate Professor in Visual Arts
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Dr Sana Murrani
Associate Professor (Spatial Practice)
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Professor Mike Phillips
Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts
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Dr Alejandro Veliz Reyes
Associate Professor in Digital Design
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Professor Katharine Willis
Professor of Smart Cities and Communities