[ecrea] Research Assistant/Fellow post - Brunel University

> Brunel University
> Research Assistant/Fellow
>
> Salary: £27,043 per annum incl. London Weighting
> Fixed-term contract for 12 months.
>
> The School of Engineering and Design is seeking 
> to appoint a Research Assistant/Fellow to work 
> on a project entitled 'TOTeM: Tales of Things 
> and Electronic Memory', funded by the EPSRC's Digital Economy Programme.
>
> The TOTeM research project explores social 
> memory in the emerging culture of the Internet 
> of Things. This term is used to describe the 
> increasingly popular use of digital tagging 
> technologies to track physical objects in the 
> real world. The research will develop methods to 
> support the conservation of social memory for 
> the benefit of cultural, business and design 
> communities. The research consortium is led by 
> the Edinburgh College of Art and consists of 
> investigators at Brunel University, University 
> College London, University of Dundee, and the University of Salford.
>
> The Research Assistant/Fellow based at Brunel 
> University will be instrumental in the initial 
> phase of promoting the project and generating 
> users for the TOTeM platform, and the subsequent 
> gathering and analysis of user data.
>
> Applicants must have the following attributes:
> ? A PhD degree (or close to completion) in Film 
> Studies, Visual Anthropology, or a related 
> subject with a strong emphasis on the moving 
> image in a social science context, or a 
> practice-based PhD in Photography or Ethnographic Film.
> ? Experience in the independent gathering and 
> qualitative analysis of ethnographic data.
> ? Experience of video production and post-production.
> ? Excellent organisational skills, high 
> self-motivation with effective communication and interpersonal skills.
> ? Competence in compiling reports, presentation 
> of research findings, and drafting research papers for publication.
>
> Further details and an application form are 
> available at: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/job/cdata/research/DCL0377-1
>
> Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr. 
> Angelina Karpovich: (Angelina.Karpovich /at/ brunel.ac.uk)
>
> Closing date for applications is 12th August 2009.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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