CODEX is sustained by a temporal, physical and virtual infrastructure that spans the network of institutional sites. This infrastructure supports the delivery of research training, career development, individual and collaborative research, tutorials, peer review, seminars and research updates. It consists of:

• CODEX Residency: This is the period In which students will be situated at each of the two institutions, comprising 50% of the PhD in the University of Plymouth (or satellite sites) and 50% in the collaborating University in China (or satellite sites). This period in residence will be augmented by participation in other research cluster activities and cultural visits.
• CODEX Lab: The Lab or studio space that CODEX research students will work in during their residency. This space requires access to and support of collaborative and individual design and fabrication activates.
• CODEX Composite Sessions: Sessions provide an intensive period where CODEX cohorts overlap and share their research and experiences. The sessions ensure that new knowledge is shared across the separate years of the community and provide a vehicle to support the Workshops and Symposia.
• CODEX Symposium: The annual public research conference/exhibition to support research dissemination to the wider research community, the public and for industrial engagement. The symposium will make use of a variety of spaces and sites, including networked and virtual environments. The Symposium also provides routes for further dissemination through a variety of digital and traditional publishing models.
• CODEX Workshops: Focused experimental design and production activates that adopt a variety of fabrication and technological methods to support experimentation and making, combined with critical theory to nurture reflexive praxis.
• CODEX Link: The Link supports communication across the research community through a variety of technologies, such as video conferencing, social media and virtual environments. This supports the management and supervisory meetings as well as collaborative projects and workshops between the UK and China. The Link also puts in place the framework to support a highly connected and interactive alumni involvement with the CODEX community.
• CODEX Tutorials: Tutorials are regular individual meetings between students and their supervisors.
• CODEX Research Network: The Network comprises each Research Laboratory or University that joins the CODEX programme to provide supervision and research facilities to support students during the Mobility period.

Residency/Mobility:

These activities break down over the 3 years as follows: