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[ecrea] Researcher for Playing the Archive

Thu May 11 08:26:20 GMT 2017




We are recruiting a researcher for Playing the Archive, a new EPSRC project on play led by UCL Institute of Education, with the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), the university of Sheffield, the Bodleian and the V&A Museum of Childhood. The researcher's main role is to build 3D environments with CASA for a VR installation at the Museum of Childhood.

Job details at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/news/2017/may/casa-recruiting-research-associate-playing-archive

Project details at https://darecollaborative.net/2017/04/03/playing-the-archive/

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CASA is recruiting: Research Associate, Playing The Archive

CASA is recruiting for a new Research Associate for the upcoming 'Playing The Archive' Project.



10 May 2017

CASA is pleased to invite applications for a new Post Doctoral Research Associate post, to work on our upcoming project 'Playing The Archive.' Playing the Archive is a new, EPSRC-funded programme led by Professor Andrew Burn of the UCL Institute for Education and involving expertise from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and the University of Sheffield.

Play is a universal human activity in all communities, cultures and periods of history. In play, cultural memories are given shape and passed down from generation to generation. However, we face many challenges in supporting play in today's society. Playing the Archive will digitise and transform an important resource of cultural memory at the Bodleian Libraries: a collection of accounts of play from 20,000 UK children in the 1950s and 60's by folklorists Iona and Peter Opie. The project will create a virtual, immersive world enabling users both old and young to playfully engage with the archive, experiencing 1950-60s play as Virtual Reality (VR), freely available to visitors at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London, and the Weston Park Museum in Sheffield. Using ideas created in the other parts of the project, we will build two experimental playgrounds in regeneration sites in Sheffield (the Park Hill estate) and London (the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park). These playgrounds will use innovative approaches to playspace and equipment, but also incorporate 'smart' objects linking physical play to the historic objects in the archives of the Bodleian and the V&A Museum of Childhood.

This post is expected to commence on 1st August 2017 and is funded for 2 years in the first instance. Applications close on 11th June. Further details and information on how to apply can be found on the UCL jobs website: UCL Jobs Website: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTY0NTA3NyZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJnZhY2Zpcm0udmFjdGl0bGU9cmVzZWFyY2ggYXNzb2NpYXRlJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQ=

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