Thanks in part to KAREN, Victoria University is the first New Zealand university to supervise a PhD totally 'In World'.

Marcia Lyons (School of Design, Victoria University) and Mark Billinghurst (HIT Lab NZ) will co-supervise Peter Rive's PhD solely from the project's island in Second Life - Mediazone Island.

Peter will engage with and draw from the Second Life experiences of Victoria design students as part of his investigation into the role of open source and creative commons licensing in facilitating greater creative collaboration and knowledge sharing within virtual worlds.

Second Life is expanding the boundaries of international creative collaboration and visualisation, and presents new and exciting ways of doing education and research for KAREN members.