Research Fellow - (Arts, Memory and Communities) Coventry, England
Job description
This role is full-time/FTC until September 2026
We are excited to provide this opportunity for a three-year fixed term Research Fellow post in the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (September 2023 – September 2026), providing cover in the research area of Arts, Memory and Communities. This post is funded through the Leverhulme Trust’s Major Research Fellowship Scheme.
Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities
CAMC is an international leader in pioneering research and enterprise that mobilises creativity as a key to understanding, connecting and transforming individuals and local, national and international communities. Our research is driven by the belief that the arts and humanities can instil in individuals and communities critical and creative thinking that informs, and can transform, our current and future conditions. We pursue excellence within our unique disciplines, and explore how exchanges across disciplinary boundaries can transform both discrete scholarly fields and the lives and experiences of the individuals and communities with whom we engage.
Research in CAMC is organised in three research themes:
- Cultural Memory explores how transdisciplinary histories shape constructions of memory, belonging and identity.
- Well-being and the Arts seeks to enhance well-being, sustainability and inclusion through art and design theory and practice.
- Critical Practices fosters the innovative capacities of practice to produce knowledge, intervene in society and address contemporary societal issues in novel ways.
Enriching and refining CAMC’s unique capacity to address research problems and engage societal and global challenges from multiple perspectives, we will pursue the commitments of each of these themes to building the cultural, creative and social well-being of communities while working together to develop shared themes and join best practices from each area to create innovative research approaches to wicked problems and to advance scholarship.
CAMC is looking to recruit a Research Fellow in arts, memory and communities. The successful candidate will hold an advanced degree in a relevant area of arts and humanities with an enthusiasm for, and commitment to the Centre’s transdisciplinary research ethos. They will demonstrate experience that equips them to engage with, and work across research themes within CAMC to support and produce impactful research. They will have the opportunity to support a range of funded projects, contribute to applications for external research funding, and develop their teaching portfolio within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
