The Innovative Media for a Digital Economy invites Expressions of Interest to attend a Project Incubation Workshop, to be held in late September.
The aim of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for those interested in developing a proposal for the Digital Economy Programme. This is an EPSRC/ ESRC/AHRC/MRC research programme for the development of information technology for social and economic benefits. The Innovative Media for a Digital Economy Research Cluster) focuses on Social Technology Systems and user-generated content, in the three areas of creative industries, transport and health industries. Several important and interesting themes have emerged from the three context setting workshops that have been held so far. A report is available on the IMDE website.
We are now inviting workshop participants and others to build on these themes, and to develop potential research projects at a Project Incubation Workshop. The aim of the workshop is to give participants an opportunity to develop ideas for projects in response to the call that is expected early 2009. If you already have a research idea, you could spend the time developing it further with other team members; alternatively you could use the time to explore ideas with others with the same interest. This will be a 2 night, 3 day residential workshop close to Oxford. The workshop will consist of background information on the Digital Economy Programme, general advice on proposal writing for this programme, an opportunity for form teams around research ideas, and a series of mini-workshops to develop specific ideas.
Funding to cover travel and accommodation costs is available for 30 participants. The date of the workshop has not yet been fixed, but it will take place in the last week of September. Please send your Expression of Interest to us at imde@oerc.ox.ac.uk by the 1st August, 2008. If you have any queries about the workshop, please contact annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk.
The Expressions of Interest should consist in the following:
