[spectre] vacancy: Lecturer in Digital Media, Newcastle University

[Atau Tanaka]

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 (assistant  
professor rank) 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. We are particularly interested in applicants  
with active artistic practice. 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.

http://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 (tanaka at csl.sony.fr)
Professor Peter Stone (Head of School of Arts and Cultures) on +44 (0) 
191 222 7095 (p.g.stone at ncl.ac.uk)

Closing date: 28 August 2007

Reference no: B2113A
http://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: a.stewart at ncl.ac.uk