Six PhD students have joined the second round of UQ’s Graduate Digital Research Fellowship program, under the guidance of RCC’s Marco Fahmi.
Maria Ejlertsen, Jenniffer Garcia, Aparna Gopal, Louise Martin-Chew, Joyce Shek and Ruihua Yin will conduct their fellowship from March until October 2019.
They join the four inaugural fellows selected last year, Robyn Gulliver and Lujain Shafeeq in Communication and Arts, and Umme Salma and Seon (Sunny) Kim in Languages and Cultures.
The fellowship, administered by UQ’s Graduate School, is designed to prepare research students to academic or non-academic careers in digital scholarship.
Fellows are confirmed research students who will spend one academic year honing their digital skills and working with local and international digital research practitioners to create a scholarly work that uses digital research methods, such as digital publication, software or data sets.
The fellowship is intended to enhance the fellow's current research or thesis topic.
Marco, RCC’s Manager of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences projects, developed the program with UQ’s Centre for Digital Scholarship and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The fellows meet regularly at the Centre for Digital Scholarship and have access to digital research support staff, such as Marco, who can advise and collaborate on their digital projects.
They will all present their work as part of the Graduate Digital Research Fellows symposium on Wednesday afternoon, 15 May 2019.
The full list of new, 2019 Graduate Digital Research Fellows, their departmental base and research topics, are as follows:
- Maria Ejlertsen (School of Education) who is undertaking an exploration of youth identity and belonging in school through attention to affect and place.
- Jenniffer García Rojas (School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences) is building evidence-based practice, research capacity and research culture among Chilean occupational therapists.
- Aparna Gopal (School of Architecture) is focusing on lighting as a built environment factor in urban Indigenous housing in Queensland.
- Louise Martin-Chew (School of Communication and Arts) is looking at what possibilities a digital future offers for publications on visual artists.
- Joyce Shek (School of Social Science) will look at intellectual property infringement and the meaning and governance of copyright in the digitised environment.
- Ruihua Yin (School of Languages and Cultures) will look at patterns of distribution of syllable profiles found across hundreds of languages.
