Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts 
We explore and make the world of tomorrow. In favour of and with our students.

We offer

The interdepartmental research team Creative Economy is looking for a research explorer to set up a research track in the field of Transformative Practices.

What methods, practices and tools are effective in transformative collaboration across sectors? Human perspective: beyond the methods, the influence of human psychology in dynamics and application of methods and practices. Can methods, behaviour and technology be combined as guidelines in designing new collaborative tools and instruments? 

This initial assignment should deliver the guidelines and plans for longer-term research that where the research explorer would/could play a nuclear role. This is particularly interesting for people who are looking for combining research work in the form of a PhD or a Post-Doc embedded with practice. Also, professionals from the Creative and Cultural Industries are welcome to apply.

We ask

• WO Level;
• Acquaintance with academic and practice-based research, and how to make it relevant for both practice and education environments;
• Experience in building partnership relationships and working in ecosystem;
• You are resourceful in connecting with the internal and external experts (having a network in academic research is an advantage);
• You are able to combine the research generated in lectorates into the TEC for Society (technology, entrepreneurship and creativity) narrative;
• You are able to operate on a strategic, tactic and operational level and you able to connect the three;
• Experience in writing funding proposals and translating research programme into organisation and budget structures.

Fixed-term contract: with the possibility to get an extension of the contract.

Salary scale : 12 - min. 4122,09 - max. 5301,29
Start date : 1 september
End date : 15 augustus 2018

Fontys

Fontys trains students to become meaningful professionals with an impact on society. We are an innovative organization and together with the professional environment we quickly anticipate developments in the region. Our employees are constantly seeking inspiration and challenges. It is with great passion that we deliver our educational programme and thereby provide a valuable contribution to relevant themes in society. We look across borders and learn to discover new opportunities. We cultivate our students’ and employees’ talents by providing them with attention and challenges. This is our collective ambition: to do and think bigger!

https://fontys.nl/

At FHK you will find qualitative art education in a dynamic environment in which change is more the rule than the exception. We are a university that is flexible and able to respond well to the changes around us.

FHK is located in a beautiful building in the heart of Tilburg, where it provides a space for all art disciplines, arts education and performing arts, bachelor’s and master’s programmes. Practical and research-based learning is central to the programmes. In addition to bachelor’s and master’s programmes, we are committed to developing talent before, during and after studies. We believe in an art world without borders and aim to experiment through research, by working together with a diversity of partners. Future teachers and artists stimulate each other to explore and give shape to the world inside and outside FHK.

At FHK you work in an international, interdisciplinary environment where art students are visible and where it is bursting with energy.

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