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Hello, We are currently advertising for a post-doctoral Research Fellow (full time) to work on the EU-funded ‘Digital DIY’ project. If you know anyone who would be interested, please do push it along to them. I would appreciate your help in finding someone good! Basically we need someone who is interested in makers and making, especially digital tools, and who is good at public engagement activities and writing. The most informative link is: http://davidgauntlett.com/digital-diy/job-opportunity-digital-diy-researcher/ The text of the advert is as follows: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Research Fellow – Digital DIY Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design Fixed Term – 24 months £34,233 – £38,686 p.a. (inc. L.W.A.) Harrow Campus Westminster School of Media Arts and Design is a thriving creative environment. We are continuously building our world-leading research in art and design (with the UK’s highest-ranked broad set of art and design research in REF2014) and media and communications (ranked fourth in REF2014). We seek to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow to research, and produce publications, videos and events, for the EU-funded ‘Digital DIY’ project. The project explores how people are using digital making technologies – such as 3D printing and Arduino – as well as maker culture more broadly, and their potential impact on creative society. You will be required to conduct interviews, run creative workshops, and make accessible materials for the public, as well as producing more traditional academic outputs such as journal articles. This post will require you to have a PhD in a social science or creative discipline, and excellent written English. They will be familiar with the maker movement and digital technologies, and will be able to leverage contacts and networks in order to organise workshops and events for this project. In addition it is a requirement of the post that you have a track record of academic publications, and experience of online public engagement with blogs, video and/or social media. The ability to make short videos to a good standard, suitable for communicating information about the project online, would be highly desirable. Closing date: 22 November 2015 https://vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/hrvacancies/default.aspx?id=50042941 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Many thanks David ------------------------------------------------ David Gauntlett – http://www.davidgauntlett.com Professor of Creativity and Design, and Co-Director of Research, Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------ . The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------