>Subject: culture lab research associate post
>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:55:51 -0000
>From: "Sally Jane Norman" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
>
>CULTURE LAB NEWCASTLE AND NEWCASTLE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS, SOCIAL
>SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (NIASSH)
>
>RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
>
>Information for Candidates
>
>We wish to appoint a motivated and flexible Research Associate to
>Culture Lab and NIASSH. You will be responsible for (i) coordinating
>Culture Lab input to the INSCAPE project on Interactive Storytelling
>for Creative People, an interdisciplinary research consortium set up
>as part of the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme on
>Information Society Technologies (http://www.inscapers.com
><http://www.inscapers.com/> ). You will contribute to a range of
>research initiatives concerned with the interactions of technology,
>creativity, performance, and narrative and notably to INSCAPE's
>"Live Performances" component, in the form of input to collective
>texts and workshops designed to explore and validate real-time
>storytelling techniques; (ii) generating documentation on INSCAPE
>practical workshop activities to provide a basis for Culture Lab's
>contribution to the consortium deliverables; (iii) helping to
>co-ordinate and document selected joint Culture Lab/NIASSH research
>programmes; and (iv) actively pursuing your own research agendas in
>appropriate areas . Applications are sought from candidates with
>practical and theoretical experience in new kinds of live
>performance and/ or new storytelling environments using interactive
>technologies. The post is based in Culture Lab and is tenable for
>approximately two-and-a-half years.
>
>Informal enquiries should in the first instance be made to Sarah
>Barber ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ), or
>0191 222 5064.
>
>To apply, please submit a written application,Employment Record
>Form, full CV, together with the names and addresses of two referees
>to Sarah Barber, Culture Lab and NIASSH, University of Newcastle
>upon Tyne, Architecture Building, NE1 7RU
>
>Closing date: 3rd February, 2006
>
>Interviews to take place week commencing 13 February, 2006
>
>Job reference:
>
>The Post
>
>The position is intended to support (i) Culture Lab's contribution
>to a Sixth Framework project on Interactive Storytelling for
>Creative People, run by a consortium of European universities and
>companies whose research is focussed on creative uses of information
>and communications technologies, (ii) Culture Lab and NIASSH's
>establishment of joint research activities in the area of creative
>practice. In the context of a four-year integrated project launched
>in September 2004, the INSCAPE consortium is developing new formal
>models of narrative skills, structures and patterns, new concepts
>for interactive storytelling addressing multiple "viewers", and
>innovative multimodal interfaces for creating interactive stories.
>To complement consortium inputs which emphasise cinema, television,
>animation and cartoon media as new vehicles for interactive
>storytelling, Culture Lab at Newcastle University will focus on the
>development of interactive narrative strategies in the live
>performance context. In the context of Culture Lab and NIASSH joint
>developments, interdisciplinary exchanges focussed on the area of
>creative practice will be implemented as a series of events
>including seminars, conference/ performances, exhibitions and
>workshops.
>
>The post has four primary roles as follows:
>
>i. Coordinating Culture Lab storytelling / live
>performance input to the INSCAPE project, including practical
>workshops with potential participation from Newcastle University's
>School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics (Creative
>Writing, Drama and Performance), School of Arts and Cultures (Music,
>Fine Arts), School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer
>Engineering (Interface and Programme Development), and Institute of
>Informatics (Conversational Agents, Human-Computer Interaction).
>Workshops will alternate between "in-house" experimentation and
>sessions targeting broader publics, presented as dissemination
>opportunities with a strong focus on media impact.
>
>ii. Generating and collating documentation on
>Culture Lab INSCAPE events:
>
>a. preparatory proposals, calls for participation, programme
>outlines laying down methodology and objectives;
>
>b. written and audiovisual traces of storytelling performance
>workshop experiments to build a corpus to be fed into Culture Lab
>deliverables for the INSCAPE Consortium
>
>iii Contributing to the organisation and documentation of
>joing Culture Lab/NIASSH research programmes which extend the
>concerns of the INSCAPE project in relation to a range of
>interdisciplinary agendas. In the first instance, you will be
>required to work on the 'Critical Exchanges: Creativity, Research,
>Scholarship' programme.
>
>iv Undertaking and disseminating your own research in a cognate area.
>
>Beyond Newcastle University counterparts, the post will require
>liaising with INSCAPE's European partners, many of whom will attend
>Newcastle events. Reciprocally, Culture Lab's INSCAPE research
>assistant will be required to attend meetings and workshops held by
>European partner organisations.
>
>Tasks will be supervised by Dr Sally Jane Norman, Director of
>Culture Lab Newcastle and responsible for the University's
>contribution to INSCAPE, and by Professor Kate Chedgzoy, director of
>NIASSH.
>
>PERSON SPECIFICATION
>
>EDUCATION AND TRAINING
>
>ESSENTIAL
>
>Post-graduate qualifications in performance, drama or theatre
>studies with emphasis on digital technologies; or post-graduate
>qualifications in narrative/ interactive structure with emphasis on
>live performance; or post-graduate qualifications in interactive
>digital technology with emphasis on creative, artistic uses thereof.
>
>DESIRABLE
>
>Knowledge of the University structure and interdisciplinary project
>environments
>
>EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS (paid/ unpaid)
>
>ESSENTIAL
>
>Experience of working in collaborative situations
>
>DESIRABLE
>
>Experience of working with persons from different disciplines driven
>by different objectives.
>
>SKILLS, ABILITIES AND PERSONAL QUALITIES
>
>- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within
>local and extended (international) teams.
>
>- Good communication skills, flexibility and enthusiasm.
>
>- Motivated contributor to an international environment.
>
>- Good team player.
>
>- Ability to relate well to staff working on the project
>and external bodies.
>
>- Sympathetic and intelligent approach.
>
>- Excellent organisational skills.
>
>- Ability to monitor milestones and meet deadlines.
>
>- Basic IT skills in data entry, word processing, email, internet.
>
>- Interest in or use of tools to constitute photographic
>and filmed archives.
>
>OTHER RELEVANT FACTORS
>
>- Prepared to travel to participate in consortium activities.
>
>
>Information on how to apply
>
>To apply for this position, you should submit your CV and written
>application, giving full details of your qualifications and
>experience, and the names and addressed of two referees, to Sarah
>Barber, Culture Lab and NIASSH, University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
>Architecture Building, NE1 7RU or [log in to unmask]
><mailto:[log in to unmask]> , to arrive no later than February
>3rd 2006.
>
>It is essential that you return a completed Employment Record form
>along with your covering letter and CV for which it would be very
>helpful if this were printed on single sided A4 paper. The
>Employment Record form may be downloaded from the University web
>page: www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/employ.rtf
><http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/employ.rtf> .
>
>Interviews will be held week commencing interview 13th February, 2006.
>
>Candidates are asked to note that it is the University's normal
>procedure to approach referees for their confidential comments on
>candidates prior to interviews being held. This can mean that
>referees will be contacted either at the time a short-list is drawn
>up or, in some instances, referees comments will be sought in
>advance to enable a short list to be finalised.
>
>Candidates who do not wish any of their referees to be approached
>before receiving an invitation for interview, must inform the
>University at the time of submitting their applications.
>
>All applications will be considered for shortlisting. Following the
>interviews, the successful candidate will receive a formal written
>offer of employment from one of the following: Registrar, or the
>Human Resources Section. Please note that no other person has the
>authority to offer employment for this post, either orally or in
>writing.
>
>When the successful candidate has accepted the post, all other
>candidates will receive notification of the outcome of their
>applications.
>The appointment will be subject to the standard conditions of
>service. Further information on this and related topics will be
>issued with any invitation to interview and may also be obtained on
>request from the Human Resources Section.
>
>The successful candidate will be eligible to join the Universities
>Superannuation Scheme (USS). The USS is currently the third largest
>private sector final salary pension scheme in the country. It
>offers an excellent range of benefits including an index linked
>pension, death in service benefits, dependants benefits and
>provision for early retirement in case you have to cease work due to
>ill health.
>
>Currently, the member contribution rate is 6.35% while employing
>institutions currently contribute 14% of your pensionable salary.
>Further information about the scheme is available from the
>University or from the USS website at http://www.usshq.co.uk
><http://www.usshq.co.uk>
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