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As Lecturer in Digital and Immersive Storytelling, you will join the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, in a new School-wide role embedded in the creative practice infrastructure of the Birkbeck Creative Practice Lab. The Lab brings together the School's research centres and institutes (including BIMI, the Centre for Contemporary Theatre, BIRMAC, the Derek Jarman Lab, the Peltz Gallery and the Vasari Research Centre) alongside its cinema, theatre and performance spaces and gallery. You will also draw on and contribute to the Immersive Learning Centre, Birkbeck's dedicated AR/VR and spatial computing facility, and will connect with the Centre for Creative AI where immersive production environments and AI-assisted tools intersect.
Job Responsibility
Develop the School’s curriculum in immersive storytelling
Teach uniting students from different disciplines together around ambitious collaborative immersive practice
Collaborate with colleagues across the School's subject areas to build new research and teaching connections around immersive practice
Requirements
PhD in a relevant field, such as digital media, film and media studies, creative arts, game studies, performance studies, digital humanities, or a related discipline in which immersive practice and storytelling feature substantially
Demonstrable research engagement with immersive media, evidenced through publications, practice-based outputs or doctoral research
Practical experience with immersive production tools
Demonstrable experience of teaching, training or facilitated learning in some context, whether in HE, further education, community settings, professional training, or workshop-based practice
Nice to have
Experience engaging questions of diversity, equity and inclusion in immersive and digital media
Backgrounds that would contribute to the diversity of the team