[Commlist] Two-Year Postdoc: "Weather Report: Wind as Model, Media and Experience"

*Winchester School of Art*

*Location*:  Winchester School of Art
*Salary*:   £31,406 to £38,587 per annum
Full Time Fixed Term for 2 years
*Closing Date:* Friday 01 April 2022
*Interview Date:*  Wednesday 13 April 2022
*Reference*:  1733522FH

*/Two-Year Postdoctoral Award in Environmental Humanities, Media and Art/*

Winchester School of Art is part of University of Southampton and is 
committed to addressing the most complex societal and environmental 
challenges. As a world-leading, research-intensive university, with a 
strong and high-quality educational offering, we are renowned for our 
innovation and enterprise and are within the top 1% of universities 
worldwide.

The AHRC and German DFG funded Weather Reports – Wind as Model, Media, 
and Experience (WeRep) is hiring postdoctoral researcher. We are looking 
for a person who can combine expertise in environmental humanities and 
media as well as art studies (including potentially practice-based 
research) to deliver original research that addresses cultural histories 
and data cultures of wind. The successful candidate has the capacity to 
work in a cross-disciplinary research team and in addition to conducting 
original research and publishing, is able to take a key role in 
coordinate key outputs of the project, work together with the relevant 
stakeholders (such as in other disciplines including STEM areas as well 
as the art and curatorial sector), and assist in key management of the 
project. Ideally, you would have already conducted research on questions 
of ecology, eco data or elementary media and bring experience in 
interdisciplinary work or artistic research.

WeRep engages with wind as an aesthetic and mediated part of 
contemporary culture from scientific analysis to everyday experience. 
WeRep builds an interdisciplinary research focus on the modern media 
cultural context of wind as it becomes contextualised in relation to 
contemporary climate, earth and ocean sciences and its various aesthetic 
meanings. A leading question of the project is how is wind perceived? 
This question is specified to bodily perception, cultural context, and 
scientific modelling and knowledge so as to bring different perspectives 
that mediate between embodied experience, data practices and aesthetic 
production. The project team is located both at Winchester School of Art 
(this post) and at University of Potsdam. The working language of the 
project is English. Proximity to Winchester is desirable.

This post-doctoral research position will facilitate the successful 
delivery of the Weather Reports grant. The position requires undertaking 
research in accordance with the specified research project under the 
supervision of the award holders as well as coordinating engagement 
activities associated with the grant, such as organizing workshop, data 
salons and collaborative endeavours with our partner institution in 
Germany. The appointment also requires help editing and delivering a 
special issue of a journal related to the Weather Reports research 
agenda and authoring a journal article combining the researcher’s own 
research in relation to the project.

The successful candidate must have knowledge of and a PhD in one or more 
of the following: Humanities (aesthetic engagement in environmental 
studies), media theory, art/design practice, speculative design, and 
data visualization (working with data sets). Experience of organizing 
small scale academic events, liaising and collaborating with research 
institutions (archives, galleries, etc), collaborative research, 
academic publishing and editing.

/Applications for Research Fellow positions will be considered from 
candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant 
PhD qualification. The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon 
successful completion of the PhD. Prior to the qualification being 
awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given./

Interview date – 13^th April 2022.

Working at the University of Southampton gives you access to a wide 
range of benefits in addition to our competitive rates of pay. Our core 
benefits include pension scheme membership; a generous annual leave 
allowance (supplemented by University closure days and public holidays) 
and excellent family leave arrangements (including maternity, paternity, 
adoption and parental leave). Up to date benefits information can be 
found at this university 
link:https://www.southampton.ac.uk/hr/services/benefits-explained/index.page 
<https://www.southampton.ac.uk/hr/services/benefits-explained/index.page>

We aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are 
proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of 
opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we 
are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working 
environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. 
 Demonstrating an understanding of EDI and how these principles can be 
applied in a higher education setting is paramount.

With a generous holiday allowance as well as additional university 
closure days we are committed to supporting our staff and students and 
open to a flexible working approach.

If you wish to discuss the role in more detail, please email either the 
PI, Prof. Ryan Bishop (atr.bishop /at/ soton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(r.bishop /at/ soton.ac.uk)>or the Co-I, Prof. Jussi Parikka 
(atj.parikka /at/ soton.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.parikka /at/ soton.ac.uk)>

*Application Procedure***

You should submit your completed online application form 
athttps://jobs.soton.ac.uk <https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/>. The application 
deadline will be midnight on the closing date stated above. If you need 
any assistance, please call Hannah Nash (HR Recruitment Team) on +44 (0) 
23 8059 4043 or (emailrecruitment /at/ soton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(recruitment /at/ soton.ac.uk)> Please quote reference 1733522FH on all 
correspondence.


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