Lecturer in Digital Media, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle UK

Lecturer in Digital Media, School of Arts and Cultures (working closely with the Culture Lab),
GBP29,139 – 36,911 per annum (pro rata if 0.5 FTE – Full Time Equivalent)

Newcastle University is continuing its substantial investment in Digital Media with the appointment of a Lectureship in Digital Media. The lectureship will be based in the School of Arts and Cultures and work closely with staff in Culture Lab. We are seeking to appoint a creative practitioner who has a strong, preferably international, profile in any field of Digital Media research and who has an interest in working across disciplinary boundaries. The post will help to stimulate and develop interdisciplinary agendas in both teaching and research being developed in Digital Media across the School, Faculty and University. You will have particular
responsibilities for teaching on a new Digital Media MA planned to commence in 2008.

Working closely with the newly appointed Chair of Digital Media, the post will contribute to the University’s fostering of ground- breaking, practice-based research through innovative research agendas and projects. You will be expected to apply for, and attract external research funding (for example from research councils and industrial sources) at local, national and international level.

www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/

Appointment may be full-time or on a fractional basis (two people at 0.5 FTE).

Informal enquiries concerning the position can be made to
Atau Tanaka, Chair of Digital Media ()
Professor Peter Stone (Head of School of Arts and Cultures) on +44 (0) 191 222 7095 ()

Closing date: 28 August 2007

Reference no: B2113A
www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancy.phtml?ref=B2113A

Answer phone: +44-191 222 8834

To apply for this position, send your CV, covering letter and completed employment record form, to: Team B, Human Resources, HASS Faculty Office, 7th Floor, Daysh Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU or email: