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Head of Media Arts

Employer
ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Location
London (GB)
Salary
Attractive Salary
Closing date
3 Jun 2019

Job Details

Head of Media Arts
Attractive Salary

A UK Top 25 University, Royal Holloway is a community that inspires individuals to succeed academically, socially and personally. With a rich history, yet constantly evolving and adapting to the demands of modern higher education, we have a proud record in media arts and are using our unique strengths in research and practice, our ambitious partnerships and our exciting geographical location in the heart of the creative industries in the UK to lead the way in the next age of digital creativity. 

The department is noted for our strengths in creative and critical work across a wide range of media and different technologies from celluloid to television to digital and immersive. Our staff include distinguished writers on film, television, and the creative industries alongside internationally recognised creative professionals. The department champions interdisciplinary work across the arts, humanities, and sciences, exemplified in the StoryFutures project which combines new modes of storytelling, value chain experts and psychology researchers on audience behaviours. 

We now wish to appoint an outstanding Head of Department to lead research, education, and interdisciplinary work at a key stage of our development. As we embark on a period of major investment in this area it is essential our next Head continues our immersive and creative shift to digital and recognises and exemplifies the importance of 'creative entrepreneurship’ in all aspects of the department's portfolio.

For more information on this outstanding opportunity, please visit andersonquigley.com/digitalleaders. This appointment is part of a wider investment and recruitment programme in digital leaders and we encourage candidates interested in lecturing appointments in video game art and design, computer science and information security to visit royalholloway.ac.uk/our-digital-story.   

Closing date: Midday, Monday 3 June 2019.

The College is committed to equality and diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. 

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One of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities.

Royal Holloway is one of the UK’s top 20 universities, ranked 129 globally (Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2015-16). We sit within the top 25% of UK universities for research that is rated world leading or internationally recognised and at 89%, our 2015 National Student Survey satisfaction rating is the highest of the University of London institutions.

The university has 21 academic departments and schools spanning the arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, management, economics and law. We combine our world-class research and excellence in teaching with a global perspective, creating a close-knit community that inspires success. With some 9,000 students learning from internationally renowned academics and researchers, ours is a unique culture, where our students and colleagues feel recognised as individuals. We have a unique best-of-both-worlds location; a safe, leafy campus in Egham, Surrey, less than 40 minutes by train from central London and just seven miles from Heathrow airport, creating the environment where our community thrives.

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ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Telephone
+(44)01784 434455
Location
EGHAM HILL
EGHAM
SURREY
TW20 0EX
United Kingdom

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