Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications (specialising in VR/Video Game) (Research and Education) – English Language and Linguistics – 103380 – Grade 8

Job title:

Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications (specialising in VR/Video Sport) (Analysis and Schooling) – English Language and Linguistics – 103380 – Grade 8

Firm

College of Birmingham

Job description

Job Description:

Place Particulars

English Language and Linguistics

Location: College of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time beginning wage is generally within the vary £45,585 to £54,395 with potential development as soon as in put up to £61,198

Grade: 8

Full Time, Everlasting

Deadline: 4th April 2024

Tutorial Improvement Programme – new Assistant Professors will undertake a 5-year improvement programme, on the finish of which they’re anticipated to be promoted to Affiliate Professor. The programme consists of a wide range of improvement alternatives and the time to replicate and develop.

Position Abstract

As a part of strategic development and funding in Digital Media and Communications, the Faculty seeks to recruit three further Assistant Professors from 1st September 2024. There are three posts obtainable, every postholder contributing to instructing and analysis excellence in one of many following areas:

• Media Manufacturing/Story Telling (place quantity 103379)
• Digital/Video Video games/Immersive Practices (place quantity 103380)
• Digital Journalism (place quantity 103382)

The three new postholders will every contribute prime quality instructing to our present suite of programmes which incorporates the very profitable BA in Digital Media and Communications launched in September 2023. Moreover the brand new postholders will contribute instructing excellence to our pipeline of recent programmes which incorporates MA in Digital Media and Artistic Industries being launched in September 2024.

Analysis excellence will embody initiating, conducting and disseminating authentic analysis. Your analysis can have measurable outcomes mirrored in your rising nationwide (and ideally worldwide) popularity.

Along with delivering excellence in instructing and analysis, profitable candidates will probably be anticipated to reveal tutorial citizenship, creating and sustaining beneficiant, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all colleagues and college students.

Administration and administration is more likely to contain contributions at Departmental and Faculty stage, and/or making an vital contribution to some managerial/management actions (e.g. working teams) throughout the College. This will embody creating and making substantial contributions to information switch, enterprise, enterprise engagement, public engagement, widening participation, colleges outreach, or related actions at Division/Faculty stage or additional throughout the College.

Fundamental Duties

Schooling

Utilizing a wide range of strategies in instructing and advising people and teams of undergraduates, postgraduates, or CPD college students, together with (as acceptable):

• instructing and analyzing programs at a variety of ranges;
• planning and reviewing your personal instructing approaches and inspiring others to do the identical;
• designing modern, inclusive, partaking and academically difficult curriculum content material;
• working collaboratively with colleagues to design and ship instructing, studying and evaluation;
• utilizing digital assets/environments successfully to assist studying and evaluation;
• creating programme proposals and making substantial contributions to the design of instructing programmes extra broadly;
• the place acceptable, enterprise and creating the total vary of tasks in relation to supervision, marking and analyzing;
• creating and advising others on studying and instructing duties and strategies;
• creating and making substantial contributions to information switch, enterprise, enterprise engagement, public engagement actions or related on personal specialism that enhances the coed expertise or employability and which advantages the Faculty and College;
• devising and supervising tasks, scholar dissertations and sensible work.

Analysis

Planning and finishing up analysis, together with (as acceptable):

• planning and publishing prime quality analysis, together with profitable monetary assist;
• undertaking managing analysis actions, and/or supervising different analysis employees;
• presenting findings in publications and convention proceedings;
• successfully supervising and mentoring PhD college students or early Profession Researchers;
• offering professional recommendation to employees and college students throughout the self-discipline;
• taking part in research-related enabling actions resembling including worth to a cross disciplinary community;
• making use of information in a means which develops new mental understanding; creating and making substantial contributions to information switch, and enterprise (together with enterprise engagement, public engagement) and related exercise that’s of profit to the Faculty and the College, together with making certain that the impression of your actions is realised absolutely and the impression is documented.

Administration/Administration

Contributing to Departmental/Faculty administration, together with:

• contributing to the administration/administration of analysis and/or instructing throughout the Division/Faculty;
• main and managing a workforce to plan and implement a brand new and/or revised course of (e.g. new programme or a recruitment drive);
• advising on private improvement of colleagues and college students;
• making a significant contribution to some administrative actions throughout the College (e.g. appeals panels, working teams);
• managing enterprise, enterprise improvement, and public engagement actions;
• creating and making substantial contributions to information switch, enterprise, enterprise engagement, public engagement, widening participation, colleges outreach.
• actively manages equality, range and inclusion via monitoring and analysis and actively difficult unacceptable behaviour.

Citizenship

Contributing to an inclusive working surroundings:

• demonstrating a willingness to be concerned in a wide range of actions supporting College life (e.g., participation in commencement, Departmental/Faculty committees);
• demonstrating assist for colleagues, resembling sharing assets, offering recommendation;
• willingness to volunteer for one-off duties (resembling supporting Faculty, Institute, and Departmental tasks);
• positively partaking in Faculty strategic initiatives;
• proactive assist and involvement in actions particularly contributing to a optimistic and inclusive neighborhood spirit throughout the Faculty/Faculty/College.

Individual Specification

• The next diploma related to the analysis/instructing space (normally PhD) or equal {qualifications}
• Intensive analysis/instructing expertise at HE stage and scholarship inside topic specialism
• Confirmed potential to plan, advise on and handle studying/analysis
• Abilities in managing, motivating and mentoring others efficiently in any respect ranges

Educating

• Capacity to design, ship, assess and revise instructing programmes
• Intensive expertise and demonstrated success in creating acceptable approaches to studying and instructing, and advising colleagues
• Expertise and success in information switch, enterprise and related exercise that enhances the coed expertise or employability

Analysis

• Expertise and achievement mirrored in a rising popularity
• Intensive expertise and demonstrated success in planning, enterprise and undertaking managing analysis to ship prime quality outcomes
• Expertise in practice-based analysis, as each scholar and supervisor (for each the Media Manufacturing/Story Telling and Digital/Video Video games/Immersive Practices posts)
• Intensive expertise of making use of and/or creating and devising profitable fashions, strategies and strategies
• Expertise and achievement in information switch, enterprise and related exercise

Administration Administration

• Capacity to contribute to Faculty/Departmental administration processes
• Capacity to evaluate and organise assets successfully
• Understanding of and skill to contribute to broader administration/administration processes
• Expertise of championing Equality, Variety and Inclusion in personal work space
• Capacity to observe and consider the extent to which equality and variety laws, insurance policies, procedures are utilized
• Capacity to establish points with the potential to impression on protected teams and take acceptable motion
• Expertise of instructing and supporting worldwide college students
• Expertise of instructing entrepreneurial expertise/advertising.

Casual inquiries to:

• Media Manufacturing/Story Telling (place quantity 103379) – Dr Richard Langley

) * Digital/Video Video games/Immersive Practices (place quantity 103380) – Dr Gianna Bouchard (
) * Digital Journalism (place quantity 103382) – Dr Ruth Web page

We imagine there isn’t any such factor as a ‘typical’ member of College of Birmingham employees and that range in its many types is a energy that underpins the alternate of concepts, innovation and debate on the coronary heart of College life. We’re dedicated to proactively addressing the limitations skilled by some teams in our neighborhood and are proud to carry Athena SWAN, Race Equality Constitution and Incapacity Assured accreditations. We’ve an Equality Variety and Inclusion Centre that focuses on repeatedly enhancing the College as a good and inclusive place to work the place everybody has the chance to succeed. We’re additionally dedicated to sustainability, which is certainly one of our values. You’ll find out extra about our work to create a fairer college for everybody .

Anticipated wage

£45585 – 54395 per yr

Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 08:58:35 GMT

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