[ecrea] Professor of Creative Industries - Jobs at Birmingham City University

https://jobs.bcu.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=022015-59

We wish to appoint a Professor of Creative Industries to be based in the 
Art and Design Research Centre and work across the Faculty of Arts, 
Design and Media and the wider university. You will join a team of 
senior research leaders to help develop our vibrant research culture. We 
share a collective ambition to sustain internationally recognised 
research and support emergent researchers to build on their professional 
expertise to develop distinctive, often practice-based, work. You will 
coordinate and help focus the work of a largar group of research-active 
staff who work on projects related to the arts, culture and the creative 
industries and build an expert knowledge base for our enterprise and 
research impact activities. You will also take a key role in leading our 
efforts to increase external funding applications in the Art and Design 
Research Centre.

The Faculty of Arts, Design and Media has a strong research environment 
built on four research centres for art and design, English, media and 
cultural studies, and music and performing arts. An average of 58% of 
the faculty’s research was rated as internationally excellent or better 
in the recent REF assessment.

You will also develop your own internationally excellent research and 
produce applications for externally-funded research projects. You will 
work as part of a team to attract and supervise high calibre doctoral 
students, and may undertake some postgraduate and undergraduate teaching.

You will hold a PhD and have an outstanding track record of academic 
leadership, research and publication or performance. You will be a 
strategic thinker, an able communicator and collaborator and a leading 
specialist in an area of creative industries research. You will have 
secured research funding from external sources and supervised students 
to completion.

The title of professor will be available for a suitably qualified 
successful candidate. Candidates who wish to apply for the conferment of 
a Professorship must clearly indicate this in their application and 
comply with the University procedures of conferment. The procedure is 
available here http://jobs.bcu.ac.uk/022015-59

To arrange an informal discussion about this post with Prof Tim Wall, 
Associate Dean for Research, please contact us on 0121 331 7897


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