[ecrea] AHRC Research Assistant Post: Fifty Years of British Music Video

10013891 - AHRC Research Assistant

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Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries

School of Media and Performing Arts



Research Assistant



Employment type: Fixed term for 2 years

Employment basis: Full time

Salary: £21,391 to £24,775 per annum

Position number: 10013891

Date published: 16 December 2014

Closing date: 04 January 2015



Interview date: 15 January 2015



Fifty Years of British Music Video, 1964-2014: Assessing innovation, 
industry, influence and impact

The University of Portsmouth’s School of Media and Performing Arts, in 
collaboration with University of the Arts London, has been awarded an 
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant to research the 
history of British music video since the 1960s. This 2-year project, led 
by Dr Justin Smith (Principal Investigator, Portsmouth) and Dr Emily 
Caston (Co-investigator, UAL) will assemble a panel of industry 
executives and creatives from record labels and production companies to 
work with an advisory committee of academics to select a canon of music 
video titles for conservation within the BFI's National Archive which 
will be distributed to the general public by Soda Pictures as a box set 
DVD and exhibited across the UK in four national cinema screening 
sessions with leading music video curator David Knight (BUG, editor 
Promo News TV, curator UK Music Video Awards). The project will also 
create the first national database of British music videos free to 
access at the BFI and British Library. With original masters donated by 
record labels and production companies we will create two new 
collections of major national significance, at the BFI National Archive 
and British Library respectively, to accompany this database. These will 
be documented and analysed in a journal special issue, and a book 
relating the as yet untold story of British music video art.

We seek to appoint a full-time Research Assistant (grade 4) on a 
fixed-term contract for 24 months. Responsible to the PI and CI, the 
Research Assistant will collate music video metadata, will conduct 
archival research, will prepare programme notes and presentations for 
focus groups, will contribute to the research interviews and industry 
panels, will analyse the Chart Show sample of programs and BPI sales 
data, and will contribute to the project’s dissemination activities 
including social media. The Research Assistant will be required to work 
especially closely with the CI in London. It is expected that the 
Research Assistant will make a distinctive contribution to the 
intellectual life of the project and its outputs, as well as having an 
important role in data gathering and assisting resource production.

For detailed information about the vacancy, please select this link: 
10013891 - AHRC Research Assistant.doc

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Dr Justin Smith
Reader in British Film Culture
Departmental Research Degrees Co-ordinator
School of Media and Performing Arts
University of Portsmouth
Eldon Building North Wing
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2DJ
Latest Publication: Journal of British Cinema and Television Special 
Issue: 'Channel 4 and British Film Culture' 
http://www.euppublishing.com/toc/jbctv/11/4
AHRC project Channel 4 and British Film Culture: 
http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/c4pp



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