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JOB OPPORTUNITY / CULTURE LAB NEWCASTLE
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UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

CULTURE LAB NEWCASTLE AND NEWCASTLE INSTITUTE FOR
THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (NIASSH)

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
£23,182 - £25,565

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). 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 (s.g.m.barber at ncl.ac.uk),
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

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