Professor Jian Chang, has recently secured funding to support 2 PhDs and 2 Post Doctoral Fellows as part of the Research Capacity Transformation Scheme, Bournemouth University (BU). The research cluster (CfACTs+) will see research collaboration across 3 BU faculties:
Faculty of Media and Communication
Faculty of Health and Social Science
Faculty of Science and Technology
The cluster will carry out multi-disciplinary research to transform the Uk/global healthcare sector and allied training using digital technologies derived from the creative industries sector. The cluster will advance research themes related to: computer animation, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) including holographic displays, artificial intelligence (AI), medical visualisation, and healthcare training; fusing emerging digital technologies to tackle existing acute challenges in healthcare training.