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My Placement at the Virtual and Immersive Production Studio

post by Callum Berger (2021 cohort) 1. Placement at the Virtual and Immersive Production Studio I started my placement back in July 2023, working with my industry partner AlbinoMosquito Productions […]


From Academia to Policy: My Experience with the UKRI Internship Scheme at the Welsh Parliament

post by Charlotte Lenton (2019 cohort) UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) offer a competitive policy internship scheme for doctoral students to embed themselves in real-world policy organisations for three months. […]


Horia Maior – new paper

Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education Junrui Hu, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Horia Alexandru Maior, Joel Fischer Telepresence robotics enable people to synchronously communicate and interact at a distance. The […]


FAILSAFE midpoint

FAILSAFE is part of Horizons Consumer Product Campaign. We are investigating the reality of robots entering the domestic setting through a lens of failure – how might domestic robots fail? […]


Unpacking the Recurrent Value of Digitally Augmented FMCGs halfway point

Our early work exploring Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCGs) snack products and the rituals of consuming food highlighted some distinct themes: Eating together promotes commensality benefits and social bonding. Snacking […]