(This is a most excellent job working on a project funded under JISC’s VRE programme III).
Applications are invited for the full-time post of Research
Assistant in the UCL Department of Information Studies to work on
LinkSphere: a joint research project with the University of Reading,
funded by the JISC Virtual Research Environment 3 programme. The project
will develop a virtual research environment which will allow
cross-repository searching across various digital collections and
archives, producing a useful user interface to various disparate digital
collections. The project will study the way that social networking
technologies are used by academics and how they might be integrated into
a VRE. Development of the technologies will be undertaken at the
University of Reading, with user analysis and usability from the team at
UCL.
The post will involve: conducting qualitative studies and
recording, analysing and writing up the results as part of a research
team at UCL, collaborating with the team at Reading University, and with
the wider academic community utilizing the system. We aim to discover
how researchers are using advanced technology, virtual research
environments, and web 2.0 and social networking applications. We wish to
design the virtual research environment to ensure that the needs of both
actual and potential users are represented.
Further information on the LinkSphere project will be available
shortly from the project website (https://linksphere.org/).
The duration of this full-time appointment will be 1 October 2009
to 31 March 2011 and the salary will be at UCL Grade 6, spine point 24,
£24,877 per annum plus £2,781 per annum London Allowance. Applications
must be emailed to Kerstin Michaels, Departmental Administrator, UCL
Department if Information Studies k.michaels@ucl.ac.uk in two PDF files:-
1. a covering letter, CV and contact details of three referees to
be submitted together in one file called X_LinkSphere.pdf (where X is
the applicant’s surname).
2. the completed UCL form, including equal opportunities monitoring
form, to be submitted as one file called X_UCL.pdf (where X is the
applicant’s surname).
Interested candidates can also contact Dr Claire Warwick
(c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk, tel: 020 7679 2548) or Dr Melissa Terras
(m.terras@ucl.ac.uk, tel: 020 7679 7206).
Further information, including the job description and UCL form,
can be downloaded from:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/kerstin-michaels/vacancies/
Interviews will be held on Tuesday, 7 July 2009.
UCL Taking Action For Equality.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 10th June 2009.
