[ecrea] 3 year postdoctoral opportunity

This comes via Project Leader Phil Jones, UoB (project details here: 
http://culturalintermediation.wordpress.com/).

We are looking to recruit a post-doc to work on an AHRC-funded Project, 
/Cultural Intermediation in the Creative Urban Economy/. This project, 
part of the Connected Communities Scheme, seeks to find ways to improve 
the links between communities and the opportunities presented by the 
creative and cultural economy.  The *three year post* sits across three 
distinct areas of work as part of this highly interdisciplinary project 
examining: the governance of the cultural economy; the engagement of 
communities; and modes of creative interventions to improve 
practice. Birmingham will be the primary case study and base for the 
researcher, although there will be coordination with parallel research 
being undertaken in Greater Manchester led by the University of Salford.

We are looking for a person with excellent qualitative research skills; 
preference will be given to candidates with experience of community and 
participatory research. As the third year of the post will be dedicated 
to overseeing a range of creative interventions, familiarity with arts 
practice will be looked on favourably. A PhD or equivalent is essential, 
with candidates from a social science, arts or humanities background 
being considered. In addition to collecting data, the post holder will 
be expected to play a substantial role in determining the priorities for 
research, data analysis, writing and presenting findings.

For more information, please contact Phil Jones (Geography, Earth and 
Environmental Sciences) (p.i.jones /at/ bham.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(p.i.jones /at/ bham.ac.uk)>, and 
seehttp://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AES480/research-fellow-in-communities-arts-and-the-creative-economy/

Please note very tight turnaround on this:
*Closing date:*  18^th  July 2012
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Dr Phil Jones
Lecturer in Human Geography
Geography Programme Leader
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
t: +44 (0)121 414 5546
f: +44 (0)121 414 5528
Read the blog for my latest AHRC project:
http://culturalintermediation.wordpress.com 
<http://culturalintermediation.wordpress.com/>