All Outputs (14)

Feeding the machine: Practitioner experiences of efforts to overcome AI’s data dilemma (2025)
Journal Article

This paper examines the human implications of AI's ‘data dilemma' in three different and contrasting sectors: pharmaceuticals, higher education, and the arts. The ‘data dilemma' refers to the challenge of obtaining sufficient and suitable data to eff... Read More about Feeding the machine: Practitioner experiences of efforts to overcome AI’s data dilemma.

An interpretative phenomenological inquiry into older adults’ experience of nature through virtual reality and its effect on their perceived well-being (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives: To explore older adults’ lived experiences of nature through immersive virtual reality (VR) and its influence on their perceived well-being in care home settings.
Methods: Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), eight older... Read More about An interpretative phenomenological inquiry into older adults’ experience of nature through virtual reality and its effect on their perceived well-being.

Staying out until the cows come home (2025)
Digital Artefact

In the first commissioned piece for Writing Home, Pervasive Media Studio resident Erinma Ochu explores home through stranger's houses, queer habits and childhood memories.

Citizen scientists’ motivation to participate in environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys: A case study on monitoring mammals in the UK (2025)
Journal Article

Citizen scientists have become integral participants in biodiversity monitoring, and the demand for effective surveying efforts has sparked interest in utilizing environmental DNA (eDNA) for species monitoring, drawing volunteers into survey planning... Read More about Citizen scientists’ motivation to participate in environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys: A case study on monitoring mammals in the UK.

Queering multisensory storytelling as collective consciousness: From knowing to realising the felt reality of the current conjecture (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In her book, ‘Like Love’, Maggie Nelson gets curious about ‘the gap between knowing and realising’, drawing on the work of queer theorist, Eve Sedgwick.

We have ‘known’ about the climate, ecological and carceral technology crises for over a centur... Read More about Queering multisensory storytelling as collective consciousness: From knowing to realising the felt reality of the current conjecture.

Alternative technologies: A just transition (2024)
Report

In the second half of 2023, Pervasive Media Studio was recognised for our work and expertise within responsible R&D at the intersection of creative technology and climate action, by Dr. Erinma Ochu- Wallscourt Associate Professor in Immersive Media b... Read More about Alternative technologies: A just transition.

Performing AI stories: Unfinished AI experiments (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Unfinished AI stories illustrating the worldmaking potential of subcultures of technology development.

Patterns in practice: Improvised human machine conversations - Panel Q&A (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Following an evening of improvised performance by composer and instrument builder, Craig Scott, on his automated guitar that reflects on the tension that exists between human and machine-made music, a conversation between Craig Scott, Sambourne Bush... Read More about Patterns in practice: Improvised human machine conversations - Panel Q&A.

Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis (2023)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted human flourishing worldwide as in-person teaching and learning provision within universities and schools rapidly shifted online. This exposed challenges as staff and students worked from home. Digital competences in onl... Read More about Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis.

Values, emotions and beliefs within generative AI arts practice patterns in practice: Values, beliefs and emotions within arts practitioners' engagements with machine learning and data mining (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Patterns in Practice (PIP) is a qualitative study investigating how practitioners' beliefs, values and emotions shape their interaction and engagement with the use of machine learning (ML) and data mining across three contrasting domains-science, edu... Read More about Values, emotions and beliefs within generative AI arts practice patterns in practice: Values, beliefs and emotions within arts practitioners' engagements with machine learning and data mining.

AI and Society: Behind AI Systems (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artificial Intelligence, algorithmic systems and machine decision making are being embedded in many areas of society – policing, justice, finance, banking, shopping and navigation just to name a few. These systems are affecting people’s lives in ways... Read More about AI and Society: Behind AI Systems.

Pride in STEM worldwide (2022)
Journal Article

Cell asked LGBTQ+ scientists around the world about how their identity shapes their experiences in STEM. Here we share six unique perspectives of researchers highlighting how their area of expertise, research focus, institutions, and geographical loc... Read More about Pride in STEM worldwide.

‘‘The future is now’’ — A European perspective on the future of science communication (2022)
Journal Article

The Future of SciComm 2.0 conference was a one-day event in Brussels on April 26th 2022. Focusing on the future of European science communication, sixty participants from twelve countries with different expertise discussed the current challenges and... Read More about ‘‘The future is now’’ — A European perspective on the future of science communication.

Distorted constellations: Interdisciplinary perspectives on understanding reality and the self (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Visual Snow is a neurological condition that is experienced as an ‘augmented’ reality of auras, glowing lines, depression, anxiety and depersonalisation (Solly et al. 2021). Whilst Visual Snow produces a collection of different symptoms, it is clinic... Read More about Distorted constellations: Interdisciplinary perspectives on understanding reality and the self.