GRIP: Research internships

This is a project about embodied listening and reading, experimental performance scores and proposals for collaborations with more-than-human others from a neurodiverse and queer perspective.

Listening is still an underacknowledged method in art and visual culture, with important researchers and artists challenging the dominant visuality at the heart of our discipline and culture, which has historically (& linguistically) equated seeing with knowing (cf. Voegelin 2024, Godin 2021 & 2024).

This project writes about and through somatic audio descriptions as an access tool from a neuroqueer and interspecies perspective to highlight the potential of experimental performance scores as pedagogical tools for queer, neurodivergent community building and interspecies reciprocity.

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Want to learn how real change happens in schools? This internship lets you dive into how creative transformation is described, documented, and sustained through Artsmark, Arts Council England’s flagship arts and cultural education award for schools.

You will explore how schools at different points in their creative development, first-time or experienced, engage with and describe change. You’ll analyse real school documentation and help shape a short research output on creative learning, impact, and school identity.

This is open to two interns to work collaboratively researching how creative and strategic change is described. This is a great opportunity for you if you are interested in qualitative research, education, and understanding creative change..

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Building on an international collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and their award-winning AI innovation, this project will pilot an AI chatbot to support social work placements at Goldsmiths. This research aims to explore the experiences and perceptions of students, practice educators and university teachers. 

You will learn to build a conceptual framework to evaluate the use of AI in education. You will gain experience in developing ethical protocols, participant recruitment, and mixed-methods data collection and analysis.

You will gain experience in studying responsible use of digital technologies in education and preparing for careers in an increasingly AI-saturated world.

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Join a collective of theatre makers, public health specialists and justice professionals, formed to explore how theatres, courts and hospitals can share and reinvent civic spaces, in response to the UK’s Covid-era ‘Nightingale’ courts and hospitals.

You will research historical and contemporary examples of institutionally hybrid spaces, investigate and map community-led speculative design projects, and help imagine what a future Nightingale Theatre training programme based on abolitionist and participatory approaches to health and justice could look like in different locations.

Working closely with the project lead, you will also support the design of and take part in a workshop bringing together professionals from health, justice, policymaking and the arts. No prior specialist knowledge is required.

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Work on Mutator, an interactive generative audiovisual engine that tours worldwide, educating audiences on bioscience and evolution while captivating them with coruscating mind-boggling creatures that react to your movements in 3D space.

We’ll be working on the Bolt cameras for public spaces.

Mutator is a cross-platform project, running in Virtual Reality and in physical spaces, reacting to VR trackers or to depth-sensing cameras. It has shown across the world from St Petersburg to Beijing, the Venice Biennale and the Tate Modern.

You don’t need much previous knowledge of C# or computer vision, just straight up ability and curiosity.

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Build an AI campus assistant prototype that helps Goldsmiths students reduce searching time, find accurate answers across campus services, course and study support, and academic and career information, and guide students to next steps.

The project focuses on UX design and evaluation rather than coding, but the assistant’s core functions will be demonstrated through non-coding methods such as interactive mock-ups, clickable user flows, and “Wizard-of-Oz” testing that simulates real responses.

You’ll scope key student questions, map student journeys, design conversation flows,  create interface and function mock up prototypes, and run user testing. If you’re interested, there is optional scope for light implementation and/or structuring the content as a small knowledge graph.

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Can you help unearth and organise 50 years of Black Intellectual History in Britain?

Join an international, multi-institution team developing a ground-breaking archive documenting five decades of Black scholarship, organising, and intellectual life in the UK. You’ll work with a dynamic, collaborative team to uncover documents, record oral histories, and catalogue and digitise materials that trace the evolution of Caribbean Studies and Black thought in Britain.

If you’re curious, meticulous, and excited by hands‑on historical discovery, this is a rare chance to shape how Black history is preserved and shared. Having some background in these areas would be really valuable for the role, but it’s not essential.

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This opportunity is part of a research project developed with local communities contending with legacies of colonisation and enslavement in public space and culture.

You will work alongside researchers to support two dimensions of the project: 1) a toolkit  for community involvement in decision-making about how colonial pasts are marked in public spaces and museums. 2) a literature review for a grant application to support the project’s next steps.

You will gain experience with curatorial practice, Black Feminism and / or theories of public space while communicating and synthesising complex community input.  Background in any of these areas is an asset.

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