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Post Title:Research Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries(Virago Press Ltd)Ref:  2414

Research Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries (Spare Rib Magazine) Ref: 2415

School/department:  School of Media Film and Music 
Hours: full time
Contract: fixed term from 15 January 2018 until 14 January 2021
Salary: starting at £32,548 and rising to £38,833 per annum
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Closing date: 2nd October 2017.  Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.
Expected Interview date: 9th November 2017
Expected start date: 15 January 2017


‘The Business of Women's Words: Purpose and Profit in Feminist Publishing’

 

The School of Media Film and Music is pleased to offer two 3 year, full-time Research Fellowships to work on this project. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust and supported by the British Library, work will be supervised by Dr Margaretta Jolly (project PI) and Dr Lucy Delap at the University of Cambridge (project CI).

 

The project will be based in the School of Media, Film and Music in collaboration with the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research (directed by Dr Jolly). The School is a well-established and internationally respected centre for research and teaching in a wide range of media, communication and cultural studies, and provides a stimulating and supportive environment.

 

The fellowships will contribute to the project’s aim to establish the history of feminist entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries. The project will achieve this through writing and mapping the histories of the feminist magazineSpare Rib and the publisher Virago Books Ltd in relationship to each other and in the context of other feminist cultural and creative publishing initiatives since the 1970s.

 

Working for this project will require familiarity with publishing history, cultural and creative industry perspectives and/or ethical business, feminist/women’s social movements, twentieth century UK political, social and cultural history, and experience of research in written and oral history archives. Some travel within the UK will be involved including attending meetings at the University of Cambridge, but most research will be conducted in either London or at the University of Sussex.

 

You will have a PhD related to the research project (i.e. publishing history, cultural and creative industry perspectives and/or ethical business, feminist/women’s social movements, twentieth century UK political, social and cultural history) and will take responsibility for identified parts of the project, offering support to all research activities. You must be digitally literate, have archival experience, and be able to demonstrate a developing record of research.

 

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone with academic interests in this area. The roles offer direct engagement in high quality, international research and networks within the UK and beyond.

 

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-in-cultural-and-creative-industrie

 

Please also note the following:

  • Applications will be sent electronically within 48 hours of the closing date (not including weekends).
  • Please return the completed interview schedule and applicant list to HR in person or[log in to unmask]
  • If possible, please allow at least one week (or more if candidates are travelling from overseas) between providing the interview schedule and the interview date.
  • Please return the original shortlisting and interview notes from ALL members of the panel, this may delay the appointment if this is not returned.
  • Please contact us with the name of the successful applicant before offering the position so that we can check their‘right to work in the UK’ status and any other questions you may have such as salary to be offered etc.
  • Employment start dates must be in the future as we are required to see all‘right to work in the UK’ documents before any new staff member begins working for the University.

 

More information can be obtained informally from Dr Margaretta Jolly[log in to unmask]

 

For full details and how to apply see ourvacancies page

 

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-in-cultural-and-creative-industrie

 

 

The University of Sussex is committed to equality of opportunity

 

 

 

 

Dr. Margaretta Jolly

School of Media, Film and Music, Silverstone Building, Room 130

University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9RG

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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/16251

Centre for Life History and Life Writing Researchhttp://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/

Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project bl.uk/sisterhood

BBC Connected Histories

Editorial board member for Women: A Cultural Review andLife Writing.

Latest publication: Liz Stanley and Margaretta Jolly. "Epistolarity: Life after Death of the Letter?".a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32, no. 2 (2017/05/04 2017): 229-33.

http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.sussex.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/08989575.2016.1187040