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[ecrea] Postdoctoral Research Assistant Vacancy: Make Me Laugh

Thu Jul 14 21:39:36 GMT 2011



 Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the 3-Year AHRC-Funded Research
 Project:


   'Make Me Laugh: Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry'


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     *University of East Anglia* - School of Film and Television Studies

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*Ref: RA766*

*£29,972 to £35,788 per annum*

The School is looking to appoint someone to work with Dr Brett Mills on a 3-year AHRC-funded research project. Candidates should have experience of empirical research work, including researching media industries and/or audiences; good communication, interpersonal and team-working skills; a PhD in the humanities or social sciences.

This project examines the nature of creativity within the British television comedy industry through: engagement with those who work within that industry via interviews, participant observation and two workshops; the mapping of the development of specific projects and the processes they go through towards completion or abandonment; the analysis of both academic and policy literature on notions of creativity, and the application and examination of that literature in response to the primary research.

This full-time, fixed term post is available from 1 January 2012 until 31 December 2014.

UEA is one of the strongest universities in the UK in Film and Television Studies, with a Research Assessment rating of 3.4 in 2008 and thriving BA, MA and PhD programmes.

*Further particulars and an application form are available on our website:* http://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs or Tel. 01603 593493 <http://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs%A0or%20Tel.%2001603%20593493>*.*

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*For informal enquiries contact Dr Brett Mills ((brett.mills /at/ uea.ac.uk) <mailto:(brett.mills /at/ uea.ac.uk)>, 01603 592094).*

*Closing date: 12 noon on 19 August 2011.*

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Dr Brett Mills
Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
01603 592094

eastanglia.academia.edu/brettmills




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