Michael Alcorn
@Michael_QUB
Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for strategic projects, Queen’s University // Professor of Composition, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Director of Queen’s MediaLab
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13-03-2012 11:59:38
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Delighted to share the details of our new Arts and Sustainability Festival - Reach '24 - which runs from 18-20 April at Queen's University Belfast 🎓. Reach '24 provides a snapshot of many sustainability projects currently underway across Ireland. Sign-up here: qub.ac.uk/about/sustaina…
Today @qubelfast and @ucc jointly launched SDSN Ireland, an island-wide network to accelerate the delivery of the SDGs. Thanks to John O'Halloran and Professor Sir Ian Greer and other speakers for launching the network and to Dr Maria Kirrane & colleagues at both universities for their support.
An inspiring series of talks at our Queen's MediaLab session given by colleagues at Queen’s who are working in the XR space - from healthcare to engineering and architecture and design to experimental arts practice. 1/2
23rd September 2022 is SDG Awareness Day! A big shout out to all of these wonderful colleagues and many more at Queen's University Belfast 🎓 who are working in support of our commitment to the #SDGs .
#QUBSustainability
SDG Awareness Day | 23rd September 2022
We are taking part in the SDG Flag Campaign with UN Global Compact Network UK to show our
commitment to #Agenda2030 . The #SDGs are our roadmap for an inclusive, just, and
sustainable society. Let’s work #TogetherForTheSDGs
#QUBSustainability
Ditch the Disposables!
We want to see single-use coffee cups disappear from our campus, so make sure you head over to the brand new One Elmwood building from today to grab a reusable coffee cup 👏☕
Also, have a peek inside your cup for a surprise 🤫
#QUBSustainability
Our next PhD opportunity is now live! A funded studentship in Immersive Storytelling supervised by Michael Alcorn and Glenn Patterson based at the new MediaLab at Queen’s. Full details here: qub.ac.uk/courses/postgr…
Good luck to Philip McGowan as he starts his role in internationalisation in AHSS at Queen’s. No doubt he’ll do a super job. Today marks the beginning of a new chapter for me as Associate PVC for strategic projects at Queen’s. SDGs and sustainability are top of the list!
Big shout out to all our Queen's University Belfast 🎓 AHSS colleagues for their work on this International Winter School which begins this afternoon. 150 participants from 19 countries will engage with our experts over the next 5 days.
. FutureScreensNI is running a free workshop on storytelling for the interactive sector on Saturday 30th November from 2-5pm. The discussion will consider plot, character and perspective throughout the narrative of video game storytelling. For more info 👉tinyurl.com/vt9fn92
Congratulations to Anna Burns, Vahni Capildeo and Jed Mercurio who have been appointed as the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows for 2019-20.
They will help to celebrate and explore creative writing in all its forms with students and the wider literary community: ow.ly/vmQA50wWkpD 📚
Lots of fun today as our final year BA Broadcast Production class welcomes former head of entertainment at BBC Northern Ireland Mike Edgar for a Q&A with John D'Arcy 💡 Some amazing stories from over 30 years industry experience and great feedback on student work in progress! Queen's University Belfast 🎓
More job opportunities at Queen's University Belfast 🎓! QUBMusic and SARC are looking for Lecturer in Audio Engineering & Music Technologies to specialise in #hardware
#software #dsp #audioprogramming #musictech #vr #ar #spatialaudio OR #immersive
QUB - EEECS
jobs.ac.uk/job/BVV201/lec…