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Thanks,
Lisa
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LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
LANCASTER INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
represents an ambitious and exciting new
initiative by the University, which is
consolidating and expanding creative arts
provision within the context of its continuing
commitment to research and teaching excellence.
Based on an amalgamation of the Departments of
Art, Music and Theatre Studies, the new Institute
will come into being on 1 August 2005 and will
foster interdisciplinary approaches, focusing on
and facilitating a laboratory-based exploration
of arts practice, and engaging academic,
professional and creative-industries
practitioners.
Applications are invited for six posts:
* One at Professorial level, who is
expected to become Director of the Institute for
a period of up to three years in the first
instance
Candidates for this post must have a proven
interest in interdisciplinary approaches in the
Arts, together with proven leadership skills and
substantial high-level creative and/or academic
research and teaching skills in one or more of
Art, Music, Theatre Studies.
* A second Chair, together with four posts
at Lecturer A/B level, one of which may be at
Senior Lecturer level
Candidates for these latter five posts should
have proven creative and/or academic research and
teaching skills in one of the following areas,
and in addition an interest in interdisciplinary
approaches in the Arts:
* Digital Fine Art
* Art practice and Curatorship
* Music Technology and Sound Art
* Contemporary Performance, Live Art and New Media
* Performance, Globalisation and
Interculturalism and/or Theatre for Social Change
The two Chair appointments will be at
Professorial level (minimum salary £43,513 p.a.).
The Lecturer A/B appointments will be made at an
appropriate point on a scale between £23,643 and
£35,883 p.a. The Senior Lecturer/Reader
appointment will be made at an appropriate point
on a scale between £37,558 and £42,573. The
appointments will take effect from 1 September
2005 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The closing date for applications is 30 March 2005
More details under job reference numbers A441 -
A446 at
http://www.personnel.lancs.ac.uk/CurrentVacancies.aspx
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Lisa Whistlecroft, Music Dept, [log in to unmask]
Lancaster University, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1524 593776
Web: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/music/staff/lisa/lisadept.html
PALATINE: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/palatine/
The Sonic Arts Network: http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/
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