Location: | Swansea |
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Salary: | £38,205 to £44,263 per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 13th June 2024 |
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Closes: | 3rd July 2024 |
Job Ref: | SU00350 |
Location: Bay Campus, Swansea
Closing Date: 3 July 2024
Interview Date: 15 July 2024
Informal Enquiries: Matt Jones Matt.Jones@Swansea.ac.uk
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY
Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life.
Our stunning waterfront campuses and multicultural community make us a desirable workplace for colleagues from around the world. Our reward and benefits, and ways of working enable those who join us to have enriching careers, matched by an excellent work-life balance.
ABOUT THE ROLE
GENERATION will assemble a multidisciplinary team of Materials Chemists, Electronic Engineers, Human Computer Interaction experts and Social Scientists, to design, build, and evaluate; sustainable, self-powered interactive technologies, specifically with older persons in mind, so that they are not excluded from the digital future, and not lost in the digital divide.
Based at the world-leading Computational Foundry on the Bay Campus, you will have the opportunity to use state-of-the-art hardware and software fabrication facilities and to carry out studies in purpose-built living-labs. The Foundry welcomes many visitors from across disciplines globally and you will have extensive opportunities to develop your career and network.
You will help lead the co-creation and participatory design work and build hardware and software prototypes that can be deployed in lab and longitudinal contexts. You will write-up the work for submission to the top-tier venues in HCI and other disciplines and build relationships with external stakeholders as well as helping to communicate our work to the public.
You will have a PhD in Human Computer Interaction and be able to evidence a portfolio of hardware and software prototypes. You will have already had experience of multidisciplinary work in diverse teams working to at-pace deadlines.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.
As an inclusive and welcoming workplace, we value people for their skills regardless of their background. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English.
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