Have you got what it takes to be an academic?
We are looking for a new lecturer to join our team at the University of the West of England. Basically what we are looking for is an Information Architect, Interaction Designer, Interface type of person. The kind of person we are looking for has industry experience, not necessarily academic credentials – though obviously that is good. You would be teaching on stuff that contributes to the BSc Web Design and MSc Information and Library Management courses.
Now is a good chance to get in on the ground floor of the BSc Web Design course and teach at the intersection of design and technology.
You will be a dynamic enthusiast, eager to develop new areas of research and teaching in information architecture. By the using the term Information architecture we refer to the emerging discipline which includes some or all of the following:
• Content design and management for web sites
• Structural design of information space
• Organising, labelling, classification and navigation schemes within web based information systems
• Metadata development and taxonomies
• Developing principles of design to web based information systems
• Searching, finding and managing information
• Social media and Web 2.0 technologies and applicationsAn appropriately experienced candidate may be given responsibility for the further curriculum development in web design and information and library management.
Go to the UWE site to download the job spec and apply
If you’ve got any questions then leave me a comment of drop me a mail at dan dot dixon at uwe dot ac dot uk.
