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UCL Library and the UCL School for Creative and Cultural Industry are seeking a fixed-term digital consultant to support forthcoming work in digital archiving and oral history projects at UCL East.
Introduction to the Project
The mobile memory workshop is a customised cargo bike, which will be a pop-up mini recording studio and sound station (for both recording, sensing and broadcasting audio recordings). The bike will be an offshoot of the UCL East Urban Room, sponsored by the UCL Special Collections and the School for Creative and Cultural Industries and the Bartlett School. Stationed at the UCL East Campus in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic park, the mobile memory workshop will allow us to connect to local schools, and communities, and other partners, providing a community resource, as well as supporting teaching and research through the generation of oral and public histories, and new forms of audio recording and archiving.
Further information about UCL East, the Urban Room and Memory Workshop can be found here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/study-and-research
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/about/ucl-east/urban-room-and-memory-workshop
The Role
The consultant will:
• Scope existing UCL policies around open science, public engagement, academic research etc. and highlight areas that will support community work in east London (particularly relating to digital outputs).
• Scope existing UCL digital systems and capabilities for the storage of oral histories and other digital materials that might be created through community activity in UCL East
• Scope current and potential community projects in UCL East
• Assess size of digital materials that will be created from current projects and make some projections as to future size of digital holdings
• Map and interview key stakeholders at UCL and in east London
• Write case study for the digital outputs of community work at UCL East and suggest solutions within UCL structures.
The work can be done flexibly starting as soon as possible with a completion date of end of September 2022. We are budgeting for around 150 hours of work at Grade 8 spine point 45 (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/sites/human_resources/files/2020-21_ucl_non-clinical_grade_structure_with_spinal_points.pdf) (exact hours to be confirmed with successful candidate).
The final output will be a report summarising key issues for consideration, including best practice, ethics, and data management in community and collaborative contexts, and making recommendations for sustainable institutional capacity building in this area.
The work will be supervised by Sarah Aitchison (Head of UCL Special Collections) and Professor Haidy Geismar (Director of School for Creative and Cultural Industries).
If you are interested in this position please send a recent cv and expression of interest highlighting relevant experience in no more than one page) to Professor Haidy Geismar at [log in to unmask] by May 31st 2022.
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