The envisioned PhD candidate will conduct original archival research, focusing on marginalised and/or overlooked audiovisual collections. Taking ‘the unknown’ as its starting point (such as gaps, absences, and silences in archives and archiving), you will research emerging speculative methods (i.e. critical fabulation, potential history, radical imagination) and/or sensory approaches (i.e. challenging traditional text-based archival descriptions through audiovisual, creative, and sensory modes of access and reuse) to address these. You will explore innovative collaborations between archives, communities, artists, and researchers, aiming to generate insights for novel archival practices that contribute to collaborative knowledge production, for example, through database creation, annotation, (online) exhibition formats or augmented reality formats that centre on affective, sensory, and audiovisual modes of access and reuse.

The research initiative of which your doctoral research will be part has a dual focus: first, developing an innovative theoretical framework rooted in contemporary archival practices and emerging collaborative methods that reassess, transform and un-settle established core archival principles; second, proposing alternative ways of creative and collaborative engagement with audiovisual heritage by critically deploying innovative forms of access and reuse.

The deadline for applications is 28 April 2024.