 I'm Alistair Horn and I'm doing a collaborative PhD with the British Library and Bath Spa University on how smartphones are changing storytelling. At Bath Spa, I've got a supervisor, I also have access to the library, access to training there, and as part of my development as a future academic, I've been teaching on marketing and publishing, the future of publishing as well. When I found there was a funded PhD available looking at mobile phones and storytelling, I felt this was a wonderful opportunity to do my own creative project that tied in with my academic research and so I'm writing a mobile fiction that you experience as you walk through Brompton Cemetery and you hear the voices of the people buried there and come to understand their stories. Conventionally, PhDs have been very focused purely on academia. What I've been doing working with the British Library is it's enabled me to get my research out there beyond academia. Impact is increasingly important. I want people as widely as possible to explore the creative project that I'm working on and I've had the opportunity to do that with the British Library. I'm very lucky to have two supervisors. Kate, my supervisor at Bath Spa, has the academic background. Here at the British Library, I have Stella Wisdom, who's an expert in curating digital literature. Stella offers a whole load of ideas that don't necessarily come from that context that can be very left field but she makes connections that I don't think anyone else would make. I'd encourage anyone considering a PhD to do a collaborative doctoral partnership at the British Library because you've got all the resources here. You've got access to the minds of some wonderful people and you've got a platform to get that research out into the world.