Dr Erinma Ochu
| Biography | Dr Erinma Ochu is Wallscourt Associate Professor of Immersive Media in the College of Art, Technology and Environment at UWE. They are a member of the Digital Cultures Research Centre and teach on the Virtual and Extended Realities MA. Building on a background in neuroscience, storytelling and emerging technologies, Erinma’s transdisciplinary research is focused on generating a planetary agenda, #PostCarbonFutures, which considers Extended Reality as a worldmaking collective imagination space in which to re-examine possibilities for life, co-existence in the current conjecture. Erinma currently enjoys research collaborations as storytelling lead on national climate justice initiative, Engaging Environments (UKRI-NERC) and as arts lead on Patterns in Practice (UKRI-AHRC) which examines cultures, values and beliefs in practitioners’ use of machine learning. Erinma is co-director of Squirrel Nation, alumni of the Stuart Hall Artist and Scholars Network, a Jerwood/ Manchester International Festival Fellow and JUST/ Ada Lovelace racial justice AI fellow. |
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| Research Interests | Critiquing the role of Extended Reality experiences for considering the transition to a PostCarbon Future Artificial Intelligence and arts practice |
| Teaching and Learning | Virtual and Extended Realities MA |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Interdisciplinary topics focused around the intersection of storytelling, evolving media technologies and practices of worldmaking. |