About CIRCA
CIRCA is a research program of the Faculty of Humanities of the UvA which mobilises and innovates the humanity’s rich research tradition within the creative industries by adopting a new research practice: ‘embedded research.’
Embedded research entails the placement of researchers for 9-12 months in companies and institutions pertaining to the creative industries where they work as professionals. The objective is for the researcher to make humanities based research contributions to the development of a specific product or service.
For the duration of the project CIRCA and the relevant creative companies/institutions become project partners. The Faculty of Humanities acts as employer of the researcher. The partner company/institution is expected to contribute either financially or in kind. The researcher receives proper professional supervision and facilitation from the project partner. CIRCA provides excellent academic supervision in frequent one-to-one coaching sessions and research seminars.
Our researchers are dynamic M.A.’s with rigorous analytic skills and a strong interest in the creative industries. Their projects depart from humanities related research questions/problems. Within the projects, academic and business interests are lined up and reinforce each other. The research results reflect the dual character of the project, for instance through the combination of a product/service on the one hand and an academic article and/or PhD proposal on the other.
http://circa.uva.nl/about-circa
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