Location: | Manchester |
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Salary: | £46,974 to £54,395 (Grade 9) |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 4th April 2024 |
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Closes: | 29th May 2024 |
Job Ref: | 7494 |
The Design Department at Manchester School of Art is renowned for its international and world-class research in Design for Health and Wellbeing, Design Innovation, Community and Heritage and Making and Materiality. Our research and teaching builds on an extensive heritage and connection to the creative industries which has enabled us to become one of the leading providers of design education nationally, and our research and education are consistently highly ranked in subject league tables. Through this, we provide unique opportunities for collaborative co-creation across our global network of partners.
The work of the Department includes research that:
Two key strands to our work includes nascent research on designing for countercultural heritage—which explores how major cultural institutions pay attention to marginal, decolonial, planetary perspectives—and design for cohesion which centres on the role of design in the production of cultural heritage in urban environments.
About the role:
About the candidate:
You will be an expert in any of the practices within the group, in addition to having knowledge and experience in one of the areas of heritage futures, collaborative and participatory design, or social design. With expertise of designing for and with communities or audiences, you will help address questions of decoloniality and re-indigeneity in collective and social design practice and pedagogy.
Requirements:
Please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification for a full list of essential & desirable criteria.
Academic Contact: Prof Philip Ely (p.ely@mmu.ac.uk) to discuss the fellowship opportunity in detail.
Closing Date: 29 May 2024
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on researchfellowships@mmu.ac.uk
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