Applications are now open for two new paid Fellowships in Residence with Knowle West Media Centre and Wounded Buffalo Sound Studios.
MyWorld Fellowships managed by Watershed are aimed at freelancers, practitioners, industry folk, and academics based in the West of England. They offer paid experimentation and research time, with an emphasis on collaboration and interdisciplinary working. We are looking for Fellows who will bring an existing practice, expertise or other relevant experience and are interested in applying that in an organisational setting with the view to share learnings more publicly with peers.
‘It is exciting that we are working with two very different types but similar age organisations for these Fellowships, who have pioneered from analogue to digital, while preserving the founding principles of media formats. The West of England is the home of long-established community engagement practice and creative technology innovation. KWMC is one of the organisations that has successfully brought those together and are thinking about next steps in a rapidly changing, seemingly technology driven, landscape. On the other hand, Wounded Buffalo is looking how to build three decades of cutting-edge audio post-production experience into processes for immersive to match newer visual formats. The learnings from both these Fellowships will no doubt be super useful for the creative sector.’
MyWorld Fellowships are varied in theme and offer paid experimentation and research time, with an emphasis on collaboration and interdisciplinary working – previous Fellows have found themselves immersed in virtual reality, accessibility design, digital fashion & textiles, community tech, tactile narratives, and immersive performance.
‘This Fellowship has been an incredibly valuable step in my career. We had the chance to test out high-risk, innovative ideas in our collaborative R&Ds owing to the ambition, scope and context of the Fellowships. Carrying out research in industry brings many challenges that can be difficult to navigate within a short time frame. At the same time, navigating these obstacles develops your knowledge and skills to overcome barriers and adapt your practice to increase the impact of research.’
The two Fellowships (in order of closing date):
Tech Futures: What’s next? With Knowle West Media Centre
(6 months, £12,000, at 2.5 days per week)
Apply by: Monday 5 May 2025 at 09.00 a.m. BST
This is an opportunity to spend six months at Knowle West Media Centre located in Bristol’s Knowle West. The fellowship is for an established creative technologist or artist/researcher who would be excited to deep dive into KWMC’s past digital arts and tech practices and use that lens to explore what matters now.
Pushing the Boundaries of Digital Acoustics with Wounded Buffalo Sound Studios
(6 months, £12,000, at 2.5 days per week)
Apply by: Tuesday 13 May 2025 09.00 a.m. BST
This is an opportunity to spend six months at multi-award-winning Wounded Buffalo Sound Studios in Bristol. This fellowship is for an established digital audio technologist or creative digital sound practitioner who will bring the expertise to investigate how cutting-edge acoustic technologies can be harnessed to create, manipulate, and transform sound in a virtual environment.
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MyWorld believe our work will be stronger with greater diversity and welcome applications from those who are currently underrepresented in the culture, technology and higher education sectors. We understand that each of us brings our experiences, our backgrounds and our own unique lens to what we do so no one is expected to represent any specific groups.