[ecrea] Professor in Digital Cultures, Deadline 25th March

Professor in Digital Cultures
Deadline for applications March 25th

UWE’s Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education is seeking to appoint to a Professor in Digital Cultures who will take on the role of Director of the Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC)www.dcrc.org.uk. The DCRC Director is responsible for the vision, leadership, promotion and budget of the Centre. As part of this role the Professor will be required to develop and lead external funding bids that support the capacity of the DCRC network across UWE to undertake research projects. The role also requires proven ability to lead the DCRC mission to support critical, creative and applied research in the field. This post will also require some teaching at all levels and liaison with curriculum leaders within the Creative Industries Department to translate the DCRC’s activities into the Department’s curricula and student recruitment at UG&  PG levels. Experience of innovative curriculum devel
opment will be an advantage.

DCRC is a lead partner in Watershed Media Centre’s Pervasive Media Studio and is based in its creative and multidisciplinary innovation lab in Bristol city centre. The DCRC Director is responsible for managing the Centre’s relationship with the Studio. The Pervasive Media Studio brings together the computing, communication and creative industries to pioneer new forms of digital media. The studio houses commercial technology development projects and creative research. The Studio is also a base for MA teaching as well as graduate internships.

> From 2012-2016 DCRC&  Pervasive Media Studio are hosting REACT (Research and Enterprise in Arts and Creative Technologies), one of the AHRC’s four national Knowledge Exchange hubs, a collaboration between the University of the West of England, Watershed Arts Trust, and the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter.  The post will work with REACT Director Professor Jonathan Dovey in developing UWE projects for REACT, a programme which aims to transform the relationship between the Creative Economy and Arts and Humanities research.
(seehttp://www.watershed.co.uk/ished/projects/react-hub/)

Further Details on the DCRC:
The DCRC aims to enable, support and promote world-leading research into the development of creative content within the reconfigurations of contemporary techno-cultures. We study the application, practices and politics of emerging technologies; we critically reflect on their ethics, values and aesthetics; we engage our research with a range of partners to further inform development strategies. The unique character of the DCRC is our mix of criticality, creativity and application. DCRC is currently established around a core of an administrator, a Research Fellow and two days a week of the Director’s time. It is internally funded but with a remit to win external funding to cover these costs and to develop projects to extend the activities of the Centre. This core is the hub for a network of researchers from across the University of the West of England.

We are actively working across Art&  Design, Computer Sciences, Cultural&  Media Studies and Geography to investigate the ways in which people make culture through their use of digital communications. While founded in a Cultural Studies tradition we pursue a dynamic interdisciplinary agenda. Critical reflexivity is key to our analysis, our creative arts practices allow for experimentation and innovation with digital media, and a significant part of how we conduct these forms of research is making it useful for the world. DCRC currently runs five broad research themes: Pervasive Media, Play, Participatory Media, the Attention Economy and Connected Communities. Our research agenda will evolve over time in response to new questions and new funding opportunities.

Further details and online application forms can be found athttp://info.uwe.ac.uk/hr/  - click on vacancies and then research to find the listed post. If you would like an informal discussion about the role please (emailjonathan.dovey /at/ uwe.ac.uk).



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