Transforming the Gap: Inclusive Digital Arts and Humanities Research Skills (DAReS) – Co-designer

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The opportunity

As part of an AHRC funded project on “Transforming the Gap: Inclusive Digital Arts and Humanities Research Skills (DAReS), we are offering an exciting opportunity to participate in an important research project to co-design an inclusive data and digital research skills curriculum for a national or regional pilot. 

We are recruiting 30 paid co-designers for 7 days of participation between June 2023 and January 2024, who will work with us to understand what inclusion means for under-represented and marginalised groups in both arts and humanities research and digital research skills, including: data wrangling, social analytics, data visualisation, social network analysis, and computational analysis.  

Drawing from widely recognised diversity gaps in the arts and humanities, higher education, and digital research skills sectors, this project aims to work with people who have experience with arts and humanities research and one or more of the following groups: Black, Asian, ethnic and/or national minorities, those with disabilities and/or neurodiversities, and/or the LGBTQIA+ community.  

The project takes diversity and inclusion as preconditions for better innovation, higher quality research outcomes, and as such, aims to develop and apply an inclusive, arts and humanities specific approach to an exciting digital research skills curriculum. The outcome of this project is a co-designed inclusive digital skills curriculum which fosters collaborative learning and can be taken up as a scalable national or regional pilot.

No experience with data, digital skills is required, however, an interest in these for existing or new research projects is helpful. No experience with co-design is required.

We are keen to attract a diverse applicant pool, and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups such as Black, Asian, ethnic, and/or national minorities, women, those with disabilities and/or neurodiversities, and/or those in the LGBTQIA+ community. We also welcome applications from people who live all over the United Kingdom and we are able to cover reasonable travel expenses.  

About you

The ideal candidate will have experience as an arts and humanities researcher, at any career stage, as well as longer term goals to develop data and digital research skills for existing or new research projects. You will be passionate about inclusion and diversity and keen to take an active role in collaboratively developing an inclusive approach to a digital research skills data school, where you will participate as a collaborative learner. You will also be able to articulate feedback for evaluation sessions, focusing on your experience in the project. You will be keen to collaborate with others and be committed to developing your own research skills and research innovations in the arts and humanities.

You can find more information on the DAReS web-site: https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at-lcc/dares/. We also encourage you to get in touch if you have any questions or would like to discuss opportunity further: dares@lcc.arts.ac.uk

To qualify as a co-designer, you:

1. Must have the right to work in the UK
2. Be an active researcher in the arts and humanities* at any career stage.
3. Identify as or have experience with under-represented groups in arts and humanities and/or digital research skills.
4. Be available on the following dates:

• For one inclusion workshop on June 16, 23 OR 30 (2023)
• For the data school (On October 12, 13, 26, 27, Nov 9, and/or 10, 2023)
• For the Hackathon (Jan 26, 2024)

To apply please send a maximum 500 word personal statement including your name and institutional email. Please send your personal statement to DAReS@lcc.arts.ac.uk

We are hosting two online information sessions at the below times:

22 May 

13:00-13:30 and 16:00-16:30

If you would like to attend either of these sessions, please email us at DAReS@lcc.arts.ac.uk for a link to attend.

*Arts and Humanities includes the following or closely related disciplines:

Arts and Design

Area Studies

Communications, Cultural and Media Studies

Cultural Policy and Management.

Creative Writing

Design including design research

Digital Humanities

Education

Gender Studies

Human Geography

Humanities

History

International Relations

Librarianship and Information Science

Linguistics

Literature

Law

Philosophy.

Religious Studies

Theatre and the Performing Arts

Science & Technology Studies

Social Anthropology

Visual Art and Illustration

Other cognate discipline

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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