Creative Economy Engagement Fellowships - Northern Bridge

通过北方桥梁财团投资创意经济参与奖学金将由贝尔法斯特女王大学-阿尔斯特大学创意交流北方爱尔兰（CXNI）倡议的结果告知，并由创意学院东北（CFNE）支持。CXNI调查了北方爱尔兰的独奏和微型创意专业人员与学术研究人员之间的促进和抑制关系。CFNE正在研究英格兰东北部创意，文化和数字技术的融合。其工作的核心在于产业战略的创意产业挑战领域（特别是创意经济）技术，以及转型数字技术，并与综合与可持续城市（特别是幸福城市）重叠。这为我们的中欧和东欧研究员提供了一个重要的平台，使他们能够参与正在进行的网络活动，研讨会和研究传播活动计划，这些活动在两个地区面临着城市再生，经济投资和研究与发展的历史性挑战。（纽卡斯尔大学、达勒姆大学和女王大学贝尔法斯特），我们的联盟的专业包括：（a）健康和福祉设计，重点是老龄化人口;（B）能源设计，重点是需要制定一个新的能源模式，优先采用能源公正和道德方法，以满足社会所有成员的需求;（c）沉浸式遗产环境的参与性设计方法;（d）服务设计;以及（e）数字媒体对当地和全球参与以及收集、编辑和分发新艺术的经济模式的影响。纽卡斯尔有一系列跨学科的结构，如纽卡斯尔创意艺术实践和开放实验室研究所，以支持不同部门的工作，汇集了创意从业者、人机交互专家、卫生专业人员和中小企业。作为CFNE的机构领导者，它在英格兰东北部的大学与创意，数字和IT部门之间建立了强大的合作关系，这将促进创新和灵活的方法，为早期职业研究员提供联合，经常是跨学科的指导。作为CFNE的领导成员，纽卡斯尔的特别贡献是在现实世界的商业需求背景下部署设计主导的创新模型。在纽卡斯尔大学从事研究项目的研究员将有机会获得与纽卡斯尔创意艺术实践研究所合作的创意产业和文化合作伙伴的资源和网络。达勒姆的研究员将有机会进入CESI（国家能源系统集成中心）的达勒姆能源研究所（DEI），这是一个耗资2000万英镑的5年期多学科中心，包括5所大学。通过该中心的成员资格、其工业战略委员会和国际学术咨询委员会接触能源专家和研究人员，将便利研究人员接触研究和工业领域的广泛专家。女王大学在知识转移合作伙伴关系方面在英国排名第一，迄今为止拥有350多个合作伙伴关系，并在最近的高等教育-商业和社区互动调查（2014-15）中被确定为英国知识产权商业化的领导者。其衍生公司在私营部门创造了约1700个新的高科技工作岗位。北方桥的CEE研究员将促进创新，并在领先学者和行业合作伙伴团队的指导下，产生高度可转移的卓越研究成果。

Investment in Creative Economy Engagement Fellowships via the Northern Bridge consortium will be informed by the results of the Queen's University of Belfast-Ulster University Creative Exchange Northern Ireland (CXNI) initiative and supported by Creative Fuse North East (CFNE). CXNI has investigated the enabling and inhibiting relationships between solo and micro creative professionals and academic researchers in Northern Ireland. CFNE is researching the fusion of creativity, culture and digital technology in North-East England. The heart of its work lies within the Industrial Strategy's Technologies for the Creative Industries Challenge Area (especially the Creative Economy), as well as with Transformative Digital Technologies, and overlaps with Integrated & Sustainable Cities (especially The Wellbeing City). This provides a significant platform for our CEE Fellows to participate in an ongoing programme of networking events, symposia and research dissemination activities in two regions that have historic challenges around urban regeneration, economic investment and Research and Development.In Northern Bridge (Newcastle University, Durham University and Queen's University Belfast), our consortium's specialisms include: (a) Design for health and wellbeing, with a focus on the ageing population; (b) Energy design, with a focus on the need to develop a new energy paradigm that prioritises energy-justice and ethical approaches to meeting the needs of all members of society; (c) participatory design approaches to immersive heritage environments; (d) service design; and (e) the impact of digital media on local and global participation and economic models for collecting, editioning, and distributing new art. Newcastle has a range of interdisciplinary structures, such as the Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice and Open Lab, to support work across different sectors, bringing together, for example, creative practitioners, HCI specialists, health professionals and SMEs. As the institutional lead for CFNE it has forged powerful collaborations between the North-East England universities and the Creative, Digital and IT sectors that will facilitate an innovative and flexible approach to joint, often interdisciplinary mentoring for Early Career Fellows. As a leading member of CFNE, Newcastle's particular contribution has been in deploying models of design-led innovation in the context of real-world commercial needs. Fellows based at Newcastle University working on research projects will have access to the resources and network of creative industries and cultural partners who work with the Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice. Fellows based at Durham will have access to the Durham Energy Institute (DEI) in CESI (the national Centre for Energy Systems Integration), a £20m 5-year multi-disciplinary centre incorporating 5 universities. Access to energy specialists and researchers, through the centre's membership, its Industrial Strategy Board and its international academic advisory board would facilitate fellows' access to a broad range of specialists in research and industry. Queen's is ranked first in the UK for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, with more than 350 partnerships to date, and was identified in the most recent Higher Education-Business and Community Interaction Survey (2014-15) as the UK leader for intellectual property commercialisation. Its spin-out companies have created around 1700 new high-tech jobs in the private sector. The CEE Fellows in Northern Bridge will foster innovation and produce highly transferable research outputs of excellence, mentored by teams of leading academics and industry partners.