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Mobilities.lab welcomes Sam Thulin on 2-year post-doc

Date: 1 January 2015

Welcome to Sam Thulin who arrived in the mobilities.lab in January 2015.

Sam is currently completing his PhD at the Mobile Media Lab at Concordia University in Montreal with Kim Sawchuk and Owen Chapman. Sam has secured funding from SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada). To carry out research on Situated sound composition in the context of mobile media.

"Building on my doctoral thesis, the focus of my research will be the ways in which people use mobile technologies, such as smartphones and tablets, as devices for sound production, ranging from recording sounds to creating documentary or musical pieces on-the-go. The concept I am calling "situated composition" is intended to draw attention to these emerging practices whilst at the same time highlighting the ways in which sonic and social space are both composed and composing forces. "Situated composition" operates not only as a description of a set of practices (creating sound works with mobile technology), but also as an original theoretical contribution I intend to develop over the course of this research."

Sam will spend one year of the post-doc here in Lancaster, and the second based in Montreal, with frequent 'virtual travel'. His supervisors in Lancaster are Monika Buscher and Jen Southern.

Whilst at the mobilities.lab Sam will:

Organise workshops for PhD students in sociology, media studies and LICA

Contribute to Lancaster's reputation for developing innovative and creative mobile research methods, disseminated through attendance at conferences / visit organisations such as the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol

Provide some technical support for new audio and visual technologies in mobilities.lab

Contribute to CeMoRe research day & other events in Sociology and LICA

Further information

Associated staff: Monika Büscher

Associated departments and research centres: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Mobilities.Lab, Sociology

Keywords: Mobilities, Sound