Email: S.Pegg@soton.ac.uk
Sam is a Digital Media Technician in the Department of Film, helping students develop foundationary skills in digital media creation tools for videographic criticism and digital exhibitions.
In addition to Sam's work, they are also a Postgraduate Researcher in the Department of English, exploring topics on AI and Creativity through creative practice and digital storytelling methods.
Sam is a Digital Media Technician in the Department of Film. They are also a Postgraduate Researcher and creative practitioner in the Department of English.
Their creative practice and research examine human-AI co-creation processes in literature, working towards shared frameworks to narrate and enhance the transparency of GenAI tools used during the writing process. Part of their approach involves creating an interactive-fiction narrative that utilises GenAI tools to examine how GenAI affects the creative process and shapes audience responses to creative works.
Previous research projects they have worked on include being the co-lead researcher for ‘Towards a Creative Practice Observatory’, which explores the potential for a digital system to capture creative practice as processes with both tangible and intangible elements, and the difficulties this dichotomy creates for capturing practice-as-process. They were the co-investigators on the project ‘Attitudes, aptitudes and applications of AI-enhanced assessment in Humanities curricula at Southampton', a project that looked into the possibilities and potential implementation of embedding AI into assessments within the School of Humanities and of developing AI-literacies more broadly among staff and students.
Sam has also contributed in various capacities to other projects around Southampton. Such projects include ‘Bringing Heritage to Life: Reliving Southampton's Medieval Past through digital storytelling’, in which they were commissioned to write and record a series of speculative, fictional histories of medieval objects and places connected to Southampton. These stories can be found appended to postcards located around Southampton's historic and medieval sites.
