My PhD and GitHub Pages

I have started doing a PhD at the University of York in theatre lighting design. As part of that process I am making a website that is designed to be a tool kit for other lighting designers to help build their practice as dramaturges – essentially how to be better story-tellers.

Vist the Site

I decided to build a website to make the PhD content, throughout the process, accessible to others. To make sure that it’s available in perpetuity I am also archiving the site using Zenodo CERN’s academic archive service. Over time the site is going to change and grow – the PhD will take me around six years after all. Hopefully in that time it will become a useful resource for other designers.

I’m posting about it here because it is a public repository on GitHub. You can find it @aarblaster/light-dramaturgy with a Creative Commons licence. I have built it using a Jekyll theme – I don’t know if I will change this over time. Maybe I find a different theme or a different approach. At the moment this allows me to easily update the site and simply include any files or text that I need to.

Once the project has been going for a while I suspect I am going to need to include some media files – particularly audio – and having an inbuilt player will be useful for that. I’m not sure how I’ll introduce those elements without having to do a large amount of coding myself. Who knows – maybe I’ll find the time to learn HTML.