[Commlist] Job: Lecturer in Digital Cultures, The University of Sydney

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Lecturer in Digital Cultures

• Exciting opportunity to join the Digital Cultures Program within the 
rapidly growing and highly successful Department of Media and Communications

• Located at our Camperdown/Darlington campus

• Full time continuing Academic Level B position offering a base salary 
commencing at $110K p.a., and generous employer’s contribution to 
superannuation

About the opportunity

The School of Literature, Arts and Media is a vibrant school whose 
pedagogic practice, research profile and external engagements are shaped 
by lively synergies between traditional disciplines such as Art History, 
English and Linguistics and newer formations such as Media and 
Communications and Film and Museum Studies.

The School is now seeking to appoint an outstanding academic at the 
level of Lecturer in Digital Cultures to join our rapidly growing and 
highly successful department. This is a teaching and research 
opportunity intended to build capacity in the fast-growing undergraduate 
Digital Cultures program and the Master of Digital Communication and 
Culture, located in the Department of Media and Communications.

The successful candidate will possess a proven track record of critical, 
reflexive research and be able to articulate strong intellectual and 
pedagogical visions across the interdisciplinary spectrum of digital 
cultures fields, which can include: Internet cultures and governance, 
platform-based digital entertainment, emerging technologies (AI, AR/VR, 
Internet of Things, robotics), and human-machine communication.

The successful candidate would have responsibility for unit 
co-ordination in some of the following: Digital Audiences and 
Communities; Internet Cultures & Governance; Games and Mixed Realities; 
Past and Futures of Digital Cultures. They would work with the Digital 
Cultures academic group on development of a new first-year foundational 
unit, and a new unit on platform-based digital entertainment.

The position is a teaching/research position, that will include HDR 
supervision. The successful candidate will be expected to develop 
curriculum and undertake research leadership that also informs teaching 
and curriculum development.

About you

The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; 
inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the 
importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values and are looking 
for a Lecturer in Digital Cultures who brings:

• a relevant PHD

• a research profile evidenced by original, high-quality and independent 
research across a spectrum of digital culture fields

• broad experience in teaching and learning, as evidenced by 
participation in team teaching, HDR supervision and experience in 
teaching in a variety of settings

• demonstrated success in designing, implementing and evaluating 
teaching and learning initiatives which inform curriculum development

• a developing network of relationships with key academic, industry and 
professional institutions, partners and stakeholders

• experience in supervising or mentoring others and/or coordinating team 
activities

relevant knowledge and skills in using and making digital media are 
desirable

• engagement with digital cultures in the Asia Pacific is also desirable.

Other

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role required 
pre-employment or background checks in terms satisfactory to the 
University. Similarly, your ongoing employment is conditional upon the 
satisfactory maintenance of all relevant clearances and background check 
requirements. If you do not meet these conditions, the University may 
take any necessary step, including the termination of your employment.

Cover Letter

Please address the selection criteria in the above “About You” section.

Closing date: 11:30pm, 15 August 2021

How to Apply

Applications (including a cover letter, CV and any additional supporting 
documentation) can be submitted via the Apply button at the top of the page.

If you are a current employee of the University and would like to submit 
an application, please login into your Workday account. Navigate to the 
Career icon on your Dashboard once logged into Workday and click on the 
USYD Find Jobs report to apply.

For a confidential discussion about the role, or if you require 
reasonable adjustment or support filling out this application, please 
contact Paulina Rojas (Mon- Wed) and Nicole Feain (Thu-Fri) Recruitment 
Officers, Recruitment Operations, Human Resources on 
(recruitment.ablc /at/ sydney.edu.au) <mailto:(recruitment.ablc /at/ sydney.edu.au)>

For role specific questions, please contact Professor Terry Flew at 
(terry.flew /at/ sydney.edu.au)

The University of Sydney is committed to diversity and social inclusion. 
Applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse 
backgrounds; equity target groups including women, people with 
disabilities, people who identify as LGBTIQ; and people of Aboriginal 
and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged.

The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.

Closing Date: 15 August 2021

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