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Department staff:
- College of Arts, Technology and Environment
- Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)
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Research staff:
- Storytelling
- Immersion
- mutual learning
- Sustainable Research Computing
- Digital Media
- AI and Arts practice
Teaching staff:
- Qualifications:PhD; BSc; FHEA; PGCERT
- Position:Wallscourt Associate Professor in Immersive Media
- Department:College of Arts, Technology and Environment Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)
- Email:Erinma.Ochu@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
I am Wallscourt Associate Professor of Immersive Media and Watershed's inaugural Researcher in Residence at Pervasive Media Studios. Based in the School of Arts, I joined UWE Bristol in 2022 and am a member of the leadership team of the Digital Cultures Research Centre.
Additional Research Affiliations:
Associate Member of UWE's Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environment, Stuart Hall Scholars & Fellows Peer Network, Breaking Barriers and Liberatory Archives Memory.
Esteems
Royal Academy of Engineering Steering group, Technology Pathways & Meaningful Innovation
Co-editor 'Digital Materialities & Sustainable Futures' book series, Emerald Press.
Black Professoriate, UWE Bristol
Area of expertise
My research is focused on experimenting with how collective consciousness materialises in participatory research and creative technology practices as a form of earthmaking. I am currently exploring that through three research grants focused on storytelling for supporting systems change in sustainable research computing (UKRI), mutual learning (Watershed) and queering metabolism (Dr Simon Chaplin). I am academic consultant on Marcin Gawin's immersive arts project, Hermaphrogenesis.
I welcome PhD students committed to centring epistemic justice within their immersive arts and digital media practice and the social worlds/ earths that these technologies bring about or foreclose. Potential PhD applicants could consider applying to the South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership.
My PhD students
Tosin Olufon: Preserving African Folktale Heritage through Virtual Reality and Animation: An Immersive Practice-Based Approach to Cultural Preservation.
Cairi Jacks: Connecting with the more-than-human world through digital art. Read Cairi's paper, Listening to the Land.
Lena Dobrowolska: Co-creating an anti-colonial documentary toolkit for reflecting non-economic loss and damage. Check out Lena's work considering Ways of Repair.
Iyun S Yemi-ShodimuI: The Black Impossible - Afrofuturism and Science Fictionality as mode. Listen to Iyun's debut album, Seduction of a Hunter as part of duo, GOMID.
Amanda Egbe: Black and Forth: Understanding Innovation in Black British Artists' Film and Photographic Work. An Autoethnographic Study of Interventions in Film and Media History Through Practice. Check out Amanda's work here.
Completed:
Dr Holly Broadhurst: Investigating the Efficiency of Environmental DNA (eDNA) for Detecting Terrestrial and Semi-aquatic Mammals. Check out Holly's landmark review on eDNA for monitoring mammals and citizen science paper on volunteers' motivations to get involved in eDNA mammal monitoring.
Dr Ave Kotze: An interpretative phenomenological inquiry into older adults’ experience of nature through Virtual Reality and its effect on their perceived well-being. Read Ave's publication arising from her PhD research.
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