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<p class="MsoNormal">Coventry University’s <a
href="https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/">
Centre for Postdigital Cultures</a> (CPC) and its <a
href="https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/)">
Post-Publishing research strand</a> invite applications to <a
href="https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/">
a fully-funded PhD studentship</a> that explores alternative
publishing practices and formats and discusses their potential to
cultivate more supportive, diverse, and equitable publishing
cultures.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Application deadline: </b>30 April 2025 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Start date:</b> September 2025</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The successful candidate will receive
comprehensive research training including technical, personal, and
professional skills. They will become a member of the
<a
href="https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/">
Centre for Postdigital Cultures</a> (CPC) and its<a
href="https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/">
Post-Publishing research strand.</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Full details on eligibility and how to apply
are available here:
<a
href="https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Project Details</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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: <br>
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<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">How can
collaborative and processual approaches to publishing displace
traditional metrics of scholarly productivity and success?</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">How can
these approaches provide alternatives to a scholarly
communication system currently focused on books and articles as
objects and commodities?</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">How can
these approaches create more supportive, diverse, and equitable
research and publishing environments?</li>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/">https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/</a>
Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a>
Website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Book: Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence (in press): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/</a>
Blog posts: 'On Not Writing Accessibly - with David Graeber and Rebecca Solnit': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/11/8/on-not-writing-accessibly-with-david-graeber-and-rebecca-sol.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/11/8/on-not-writing-accessibly-with-david-graeber-and-rebecca-sol.html</a>
'The Pluriversal Politics of Radical Publishing's Scaling Small': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/10/18/the-pluriversal-politics-of-radical-publishings-scaling-smal.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/10/18/the-pluriversal-politics-of-radical-publishings-scaling-smal.html</a>
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): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/">https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/</a>
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