FW: 12 month full time Post-Doc at Brunel

Tue Jul 10 11:08:38 UTC 2012

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cheers - Chris

From: A discussion and announcement list for the Mass-Observation community
Sent: 09 July 2012 12:09
Subject: [MASSOBS] 12 month full time Post-Doc at Brunel
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Dear All,

The following partly MO-related post is now being 
advertised at Brunel and would suit someone 
suitably qualified/experienced who has finished 
their PhD. Please pass on to anyone suitable that you know of.

Application form and full specifications at 
<https://jobs.brunel.ac.uk/WRL/pages/vacancy.jsf;jsessionid=FD1E9C62A5E360B8B82740ADE7D180AD?latest=5>https://jobs.brunel.ac.uk/WRL/pages/vacancy.jsf;jsessionid=FD1E9C62A5E360B8B82740ADE7D180AD?latest=5

Deadline for applications: 19 July 2012

Job Description

Full-time 12 months Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 
(PDRF) for Fiction and Cultural Mediation of Ageing Anthology Project (FCMAAP)

Point 30 Research Scale £30,122 pa plus £2,166 pa London Weigthing

To Commence: 10th September 2012.

Subsequent to a successful award 
follow-on-funding by the ESRC to members of 
Brunel University’s Fiction and Cultural 
Mediation of Ageing Project (FCMAP), the Brunel 
Centre for Contemporary Writing (BCCW) seeks to 
appoint a full-time Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 
(PDRF) for twelve months commencing on Monday 
10th September 2012. The candidate will be based 
at the Uxbridge campus, but will also be required 
to undertake research at the Mass Observation 
(MO) Archive at Sussex University and 
occasionally at other institutions such as the 
British Library. The successful candidate will 
work closely with Principal Investigator, Prof. 
Philip Tew who is Director of the BCCW, and 
Co-Investigator, Dr. Nick Hubble, Head of 
Brunel’s English Department. The project is 
interdisciplinary and combines narrative theory 
and analysis, social commentary and 
interpretation of qualitative data, editorial 
selection and other close editorial work, all 
involving interdisciplinary approaches. 
Applicants called to interview will be asked to 
demonstrate a capacity for such engagements, and 
also submit a sample of their work, either a 
chapter of their thesis or a published article or chapter.

Project Details

‘Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing 
(FCMAP): New Narratives of Everyday Ageing in 
Contemporary Britain’ is a follow-up programme 
designed to disseminate the findings of the 
original FCMAP project (2009-2012) – that the 
social signification of ageing is undergoing a 
radical transition in contemporary Britain and 
that everyday self-reflective narrative 
understanding is essential for active ageing – 
directly to the general public in order to promote social agency and wellbeing.

The primary aim of the project is to facilitate 
extensive knowledge exchange and public 
engagement concerning the ongoing changes in the 
experience of ageing and to promote the 
replacement of stereotypical notions with a new 
narrative-based understanding of the life course. 
The key objectives are (i) to compile a 
mass-market paperback anthology aimed at the 
general public weaving together a number of 
ordinary people’s diary-type stories (to be taken 
from the data collected for FCMAP from the Mass 
Observation Archive and volunteer groups of the 
University of the Third Age); (ii) to organise 
and hold a public day event in Central London in 
June 2013 designed to attract user groups, 
stakeholders, policy makers, academics and the general public.

Further details of the initial FCMAP project can 
be found on the Brunel website at:
<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/arts/english/research/fiction-and-the-cultural-mediation-of-ageing>http://www.brunel.ac.uk/arts/english/research/fiction-and-the-cultural-mediation-of-ageing

Details of the FCMAP collaboration with the think 
tank Demos which lead to the co-written 200 page 
report Coming of Age, published as a paperback 
and online as a 
<http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Coming_of_Age_-_web.pdf?1302099024>free 
download are available at: 
<http://www.demos.co.uk/projects/comingofage>http://www.demos.co.uk/projects/comingofage.

Will Self discusses speaking at Brunel for an 
FCMAP event in the Guardian: 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/01/looking-very-well-lewis-wolpert-review>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/01/looking-very-well-lewis-wolpert-review

Best,
Nick

Dr Nick Hubble,
Senior Lecturer in English,
Co-Investigator, Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Aging,
<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artsub/english/engresearch/fcmap>http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artsub/english/engresearch/fcmap
Deputy Director, Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing,
<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artresearch/bccw>http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artresearch/bccw

School of Arts,
Brunel University,
Uxbridge,
Middlesex,
UB8 3PH

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