Recruitment: Research Fellow in Digital Music Interaction
About this role
Applications are invited for the position of Research Fellow in Digital Music Interaction to create a new generation of accessible and expressive digital musical instruments.
This is a UKRI funded post is supported by the Future Leaders Fellowship: “Sensing Music
Interactions from the Outside-In: Accessible Innovation Fusing Wearable Technology and
Physical Prototyping”.
The project goal is to develop technologies and methods that support the co-design and
development of bespoke and accessible digital musical instruments. A novel interaction
approach will be developed where technology worn on the hands will be used to sense a
wearer’s interactions with objects and mechanisms. The primary application is music, but the
approach will be explored in wider domains of Human Computer Interaction.
This role is an opportunity to join a growing multidisciplinary team of researchers in the Music
Interaction and Computational Arts Lab (MICA Lab) at UWE. The project partners include MiMU
Gloves, x-io Technologies, Watershed, Drake Music and Billy & Andy’s Music School.
The project and team are committed to meaningful improvement and change in terms of
inclusion and accessibility. Diversity enhances research, and we welcome applications from
those who will bring balance to our team, including those from communities who experience
racism, sexism, ableism or any other barriers. The project includes collaborations with disabled
musicians, and we are led by the social model of disability. Consequently, Disabled researchers
and those with lived experience of disability are encouraged to apply.
The post will be located within a multidisciplinary facility called The Bridge, which was funded
by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the West of England Combined Authority and
located on our lively Frenchay campus adjacent to the Centre for Print Research and the Bristol
Robotics Laboratory. The post available on a full time or job share basis for applicants wishing
to work part time.
Further information
Application closing date 26/05/2024
*Please attach to your application a 2-page research proposal for a project that will use wearable technologies to sense interaction with 3D prototyped objects and mechanisms. For more information see: www.micalab.org and/or contact tom.mitchell@uwe.ac.uk.
This is a 46 month (3 years 10 months) fixed-term post and is full-time working on a 1.0 FTE contract.
This post is available on a job share basis for applicants wishing to work part time.
Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay Campus on the week commencing 10/06/2024.
For informal enquiries please contact Prof. Tom Mitchell on 0117 328 3349 or email: tom.mitchell@uwe.ac.uk.
