Coral Manton

Organisation

Plymouth University

Job title

Doctoral Researcher

Biography

Coral Manton is PhD candidate, part of the i-DAT research and design collective at Plymouth University. Her research brings together her professional background in museums and immersive digital arts practice. She is currently developing an immersive museum collection database, producing data visualisations from the collection in storage for enhanced curatorial and visitor understanding, working with Birmingham Museums Trust. Coral was employed on a research placement by the British Library investigating multimedia and nontext PhD research outputs and how the Library might develop to meet the challenge of evolving digital theses in providing its EThOS e-theses service. Coral is a digital artist and animator with an interest in interactive design and immersive cinema http://coralanimation.com.