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Job details
Job reference
REQ010657
Application closing date
02/04/2023
Faculty / School or Service
Research Centre in Postdigital Cultures (PDC)
Salary
£35,333 - £44,737
Package
Blank
Contractual hours
Blank
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Research
Attachments
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Research Fellow
Job description
Centre for Postdigital Cultures
The
Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC)
was established in 2017 and sits within the
Institute of Creative Cultures at Coventry University. Led by Professor Gary Hall, the CPC
brings together media theorists, practitioners, programmers, activists and artists to generate
research that reimagines 21st century societies
and their cultural institutions (galleries,
libraries, archives, museums, presses, etc.) at a local, national and planetary level.
As befits a centre concerned with networked postdigital cultures, the CPC has a fluid, de-
centered organisational structure. It consists of five quasi-autonomous research strands or
collaboratories:
-
AI and Algorithmic Cultures
-
ArtSpaceCity
-
Ludic Design
-
Postdigital Intimacies
-
Post-Publishing
The CPC’s position is that the “digital” cannot be understood as a separate domain. Today
digital information processing is present in every aspect of our lives, including our
communication, entertainment, education, energy, banking, health, transport, manufacturing,
food and water-supply systems. Attention therefore needs to turn from “the digital” toward the
various overlapping processes and infrastructures that shape and organise it, alongwith those
that the digital helps to shape and organise in turn. This is what we mean by ‘postdigital’.
The CPC explores and experiments with such enmeshed models of media, culture and
society. It has as its collective vision working toward the establishment of a more socially just
and sustainable ‘postcapitalist’ society by means of an interdisciplinary research agenda that
extends from computing science, through the social sciences and humanities, to open
education, political activism and art practice to explore how intellectual, community and civic
engagement can prefigure different ways of being together.
CPC is looking to recruit a Research Fellow for its Post-Publishing
research strand
,
which
gathers together researchers and practitioners who, both collaboratively and individually,
explore alternative pasts, presents, and futures for publishing. The successful candidate will
have an emerging record of world-class research in this or related areas. They also need to
have the ability to attract external research funding and contribute to the vibrant research
environment of the Centre. The Research Fellow will be involved in developing editorial and
technical workflows, protocols, and documentation to support several experimental academic
book publishing pilots, in collaboration with scholars, publishers, and technology providers.
As one of Coventry’s biggest employers the University will provide an excellent benefits
package and a personal and professional development programme that will help you to
achieve your aspirations.
For m
ore information
on
the
Centre
for
Postdigital
Cultures,
see
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/.
Informal enquiries about this post should be addressed to Dr Janneke Adema
(janneke.adema@coventry.ac.uk)
To view a copy of the Job Description and Person Specification please click here.
Job title
Research Fellow
Job reference
REQ010657
Application closing date
02/04/2023
Faculty / School or Service
Research Centre in Postdigital Cultures (PDC)
Salary
£35,333 - £44,737
Package
Blank
Contractual hours
Blank
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Research
Attachments
Blank
Job description
Centre for Postdigital Cultures
The
Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC)
was established in 2017 and sits within the
Institute of Creative Cultures at Coventry University. Led by Professor Gary Hall, the CPC
brings together media theorists, practitioners, programmers, activists and artists to generate
research that reimagines 21st century societies
and their cultural institutions (galleries,
libraries, archives, museums, presses, etc.) at a local, national and planetary level.
As befits a centre concerned with networked postdigital cultures, the CPC has a fluid, de-
centered organisational structure. It consists of five quasi-autonomous research strands or
collaboratories:
-
AI and Algorithmic Cultures
-
ArtSpaceCity
-
Ludic Design
-
Postdigital Intimacies
-
Post-Publishing
The CPC’s position is that the “digital” cannot be understood as a separate domain. Today
digital information processing is present in every aspect of our lives, including our
communication, entertainment, education, energy, banking, health, transport, manufacturing,
food and water-supply systems. Attention therefore needs to turn from “the digital” toward the
various overlapping processes and infrastructures that shape and organise it, alongwith those
that the digital helps to shape and organise in turn. This is what we mean by ‘postdigital’.
The CPC explores and experiments with such enmeshed models of media, culture and
society. It has as its collective vision working toward the establishment of a more socially just
and sustainable ‘postcapitalist’ society by means of an interdisciplinary research agenda that
extends from computing science, through the social sciences and humanities, to open
education, political activism and art practice to explore how intellectual, community and civic
engagement can prefigure different ways of being together.
CPC is looking to recruit a Research Fellow for its Post-Publishing
research strand
,
which
gathers together researchers and practitioners who, both collaboratively and individually,
explore alternative pasts, presents, and futures for publishing. The successful candidate will
have an emerging record of world-class research in this or related areas. They also need to
have the ability to attract external research funding and contribute to the vibrant research
environment of the Centre. The Research Fellow will be involved in developing editorial and
technical workflows, protocols, and documentation to support several experimental academic
book publishing pilots, in collaboration with scholars, publishers, and technology providers.
As one of Coventry’s biggest employers the University will provide an excellent benefits
package and a personal and professional development programme that will help you to
achieve your aspirations.
For m
ore information
on
the
Centre
for
Postdigital
Cultures,
see
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/.
Informal enquiries about this post should be addressed to Dr Janneke Adema
(janneke.adema@coventry.ac.uk)
To view a copy of the Job Description and Person Specification please click here.