================================================= JOB OPPORTUNITY / CULTURE LAB NEWCASTLE ================================================= UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CULTURE LAB NEWCASTLE AND NEWCASTLE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (NIASSH) RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Â23,182 - Â25,565 We wish to appoint a motivated and flexible Research Associate to Culture Lab and NIASSH. You will be responsible for (i) coordinating Culture Lab input to the INSCAPE project on Interactive Storytelling for Creative People, an interdisciplinary research consortium set up as part of the European Commissionâs Sixth Framework Programme on Information Society Technologies (http://www.inscapers.com). You will contribute to a range of research initiatives concerned with the interactions of technology, creativity, performance, and narrative and notably to INSCAPEâs 'Live Performances' component, in the form of input to collective texts and workshops designed to explore and validate real-time storytelling techniques; (ii) generating documentation on INSCAPE practical workshop activities to provide a basis for Culture Labâs contribution to the consortium deliverables; (iii) helping to co-ordinate and document selected joint Culture Lab/NIASSH research programmes; and (iv) actively pursuing your own research agendas in appropriate areas. Applications are sought from candidates with practical and theoretical experience in new kinds of live performance and / or new storytelling environments using interactive technologies. The post is based in Culture Lab and is tenable for approximately two-and-a-half years. Informal enquiries should in the first instance be made to Sarah Barber (s.g.m.barber@xxxxxxxxx), or 0191 222 5064. To apply, please submit a written application, Employment Record Form, full CV, together with the names and addresses of two referees to: Sarah Barber, Culture Lab and NIASSH, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Architecture Building, NE1 7RU Closing date: 3rd February, 2006 Interviews to take place week commencing 13 February, 2006 =================================================