::fc-announce:: digital media position, U. of Newcastle (UK)

[Gerard Goggin]

Lecturer in Digital Media, School of Arts and Cultures (working  
closely with the Culture Lab), GBP29,139 - 36,911 per annum (pro rata  
if 0.5 FTE - Full Time Equivalent)

Newcastle University is continuing its substantial investment in  
Digital Media with the appointment of a Lectureship in Digital Media.  
The lectureship will be based in the School of Arts and Cultures and  
work closely with staff in Culture Lab. We are seeking to appoint a  
creative practitioner who has a strong, preferably international,  
profile in any field of Digital Media research and who has an  
interest in working across disciplinary boundaries. The post will  
help to stimulate and develop interdisciplinary agendas in both  
teaching and research being developed in Digital Media across the  
School, Faculty and University. You will have particular  
responsibilities for teaching on a new Digital Media MA planned to  
commence in 2008.

Working closely with the newly appointed Chair of Digital Media, the  
post will contribute to the University’s fostering of ground- 
breaking, practice-based research through innovative research agendas  
and projects. You will be expected to apply for, and attract external  
research funding (for example from research councils and industrial  
sources) at local, national and international level.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/

Appointment may be full-time or on a fractional basis (two people at  
0.5 FTE).

Informal enquiries concerning the position can be made to
Atau Tanaka, Chair of Digital Media (tanaka at csl.sony.fr)
Professor Peter Stone (Head of School of Arts and Cultures) on +44 (0) 
191 222 7095 (p.g.stone at ncl.ac.uk)

Closing date: 28 August 2007

Reference no: B2113A
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancy.phtml?ref=B2113A

Answer phone: +44-191 222 8834

To apply for this position, send your CV, covering letter and  
completed employment record form, to: Team B, Human Resources, HASS  
Faculty Office, 7th Floor, Daysh Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1  
7RU or email: a.stewart at ncl.ac.uk

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Dr Gerard Goggin
ARC Australian Research Fellow
Editor, 'Media International Australia'
Department of Media and Communications
The University of Sydney
e-mail: gerard.goggin at arts.usyd.edu.au OR
gg at gerardgoggin.net
p: +61 2 9036 6424  f: 61 2 9351 5444
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/media/?page=staff&id=gerard.goggin

 From 3 Sept 2007: Centre for Social Research in Journalism and  
Commmunication at University of New South Wales, Sydney.
New email address: g.goggin at unsw.edu.au