[spectre] The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) and its Post-Publishing research strand invite applications to a fully-funded PhD studentship

[Gary Hall]

Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures
<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/>
(CPC) and its Post-Publishing research strand
<https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/)> invite applications
to a fully-funded PhD studentship
<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/>
that explores alternative publishing practices and formats and discusses
their potential to cultivate more supportive, diverse, and equitable
publishing cultures.

*Application deadline: *30 April 2025

*Start date:* September 2025

The studentship is full-time and open to UK and International (including
EU) graduates. It offers tuition fees for 3 – 3.5 and a stipend to
support living costs. We are looking for candidates that have a
theoretical and/or practical foundation in fields related to publishing:
This includes but is not limited to publishing studies, graphic design,
artistic publishing, digital humanities, communication studies,
literature studies, or related disciplines. Working with social justice,
intersectional feminist, posthumanist, and decolonial approaches is
especially desirable.

The successful candidate will receive comprehensive research training
including technical, personal, and professional skills. They  will
become a member of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures
<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/>
(CPC) and itsPost-Publishing research strand.
<https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/>

Full details on eligibility and how to apply are available here:
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/

*Project Details*

We invite applications for PhD projects that challenge and intervene
into the prevailing systems of scholarly publishing which prioritise
research outputs (such as books and papers) as well as competitive,
individualistic authorship models as the main metrics for academic
recognition and success. This conventional approach often reduces
scholarly works to commodities, neglecting the intricate socio-material
processes of knowledge creation and sharing, which are inherently
collaborative involving both human actors (authors, editors, reviewers,
programmers) and non-human ones (digital texts, research cultures,
technologies).

Doctoral proposals are welcomed that focus on how alternative approaches
to publishing can foster collaboration and mutual support over
individual competition, social processes over quantifiable outputs, and
knowledge equity and diversity in scholarly publishing. This includes
but is not limited to applications that explore publishing and editorial
collectives in- and outside the university, publishing practices
(including joint writing, open peer review, shared annotation,
alternative licencing, and collective editorship), as well as open,
processual, and versioned books. The members of the supervisory team
have expertise in critical, experimental, activist, and academic print
and digital publishing; radical open access publishing; social justice,
knowledge equity and diversity in academia; as well as in curatorial
studies and spatial practices. We welcome applications that focus on
specific case studies, engage in practice-research, and/or want to
conduct an experimental publishing projects.

We encourage projects that critically engage with existing literature in
fields such as publishing and communication studies, digital humanities,
cultural studies, media studies, and critical university studies as well
as with past and current publishing initiatives and publications.
Questions of interest include:

  * How can collaborative and processual approaches to publishing
    displace traditional metrics of scholarly productivity and success?
  * How can these approaches provide alternatives to a scholarly
    communication system currently focused on books and articles as
    objects and commodities?
  * How can these approaches create more supportive, diverse, and
    equitable research and publishing environments?

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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/

Director of Open Humanities Press:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Websitehttp://www.garyhall.info


Latest:

Book: Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence (in press):https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

Blog posts: 'On Not Writing Accessibly - with David Graeber and Rebecca Solnit':http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/11/8/on-not-writing-accessibly-with-david-graeber-and-rebecca-sol.html

'The Pluriversal Politics of Radical Publishing's Scaling Small':http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/10/18/the-pluriversal-politics-of-radical-publishings-scaling-smal.html

Recommended: Feeding the Machine by James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant, in the AI 'magazine' Robot Review of Books (now also featuring This Podcast Does Not Exist):https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/





















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