DESIRE: CREATIVE DESIGN for INNOVATION in SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
Vacancies for Research Positions
Applications are invited for 13 studentships on creative design, 4 of which at Lancaster University, UK. Each position is funded for 36 months. The network requires expertise from various disciplines and the specific requirements as well as details about each individual projects can be found under Projects. To discuss project opportunities, please contact either the lead supervisor, for information on a specific project, or the Coordinator for general enquiries.
These 3 year positions are funded through the European Commission Framework 7 and are offered with excellent financial conditions including competitive salary, mobility and travel allowance, contribution to the participation expenses in research and training activities, as well as career exploratory allowance.
An attractive training programme will be offered to the successful candidates consisting in expert research supervision by world leading researchers, access to training courses on foundation and advanced topics in creative design, access to complementary training and industrial secondments within network's over 10 industrial partners, as well as participation to networks' summers schools and
conferences.
Requirements: Aligned with the specific requirements of each project, the applicants should have a good degree in Computer Science, Psychology, Design or Arts. They should also have the ability to work independently and as part of a group, possess good communication skills, and be able to write high quality technical reports. The working language in this project is English. We encourage applications from all interested students, regardless of gender, race, disability, etc. The network aims to appoint women to at least 40% of the positions.
Eligibility: According to Marie Curie Actions, researchers to be appointed by DESIRE are those in the first four years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers, starting at the date of obtaining the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a doctorate, either in the country in which the degree was obtained or in the country in which the research training is provided. Positions are open to candidates of any nationality with the exception that the student may not have resided in the country of the host institution for more than one year in the 3 years before appointment. For additional information on eligibility, please check Rules of mobility and conditions of nationality applicable to eligible researchers, page 13-14.
Applications: The closing date for formal applications is 1st of December 2008. Formal applications should be emailed directly to the project supervisor as outline on the Projects and should include:
Full CV Please use the Europass CV template
Names of three referees
A statement of your academic interests, including the DESIRE projects in which you are interested (up to 3 in rank order) and the reasons for your preference. Please do not exceed 2 sides of A4.
Publication list
We expect successful candidates to join the network in January 2009.
Candidates interested in the first four positions, PhD1-PhD4 offered at Lancaster University, are invited to consult the Personnel Website for further details regarding the appplication process.
Individual PhD Projects
Project 1: Investigate the role of individual differences in visual and spatial thinking in creative problem solving and creativity training.
Host institution: Lancaster University, UK; Lead supervisor: Corina Sas: c.sas AT lancaster.ac. uk
Project 2: Develop and evaluate innovative methods for creative problem solving using artistic representations. Host institution: Lancaster University, UK; Lead supervisor: Corina Sas: c.sas AT lancaster.ac. uk
Project 3: Produce a theoretical understanding of the cognitive processes that underpin creative leaps during expert poetry composition.
Host institution: Lancaster University, UK; Lead supervisor: Linden Ball: l.ball AT lancaster.ac. uk
Project 4: Understand the impact of explicit design space representations on innovative design.
Host institution: Lancaster University, UK; Lead supervisor: Alan Dix: alan AT hcibook.com
Candidates interested in the first four positions, PhD1-PhD4 offered at Lancaster University, are invited to consult the Personnel Website for further details regarding the appplication process.
Project 5: Develop an interactive system to support communicating implicit design representations. Host institution: Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands; Supervisor: Jean Bernard Martens: j.b.o.s.martens AT tue.nl
Project 6: Investigate creative problem solving process: cross-disciplinary method diffusion. Host institution: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; Supervisor: Panos Markopoulos: p.markopoulos AT tue.nl
Project 7: Investigate the emergence of insight during `live' industrial design meetings through the deployment of ethnographic methods.
Host institution: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Lead supervisor: Bo T. Christensen: bc.marktg AT cbs.dk
Project 8: Examine the use of visual aids during problem solving in industrial design contexts as a way to support the mental simulation of end users and markets.
Host institution: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Lead supervisor: Bo T. Christensen: bc.marktg AT cbs.dk
Project 9: Implement interactive design patterns and tools for supporting creative design process, through visual languages. Host institution: University of Milan, Italy; Lead supervisor: Piero Mussio: mussio AT dico.unimi.it
Project 10: Investigate End-User-Developmen t and meta-design approaches for creative problem solving in cultural information and communication environments.
Host institution: University of Milan, Italy; Lead supervisor: Piero Mussio: mussio AT dico.unimi.it
Project 11: Explore creative processes in collaborative music composition and develop tools for supporting them. Host institution: The Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal; Lead supervisor: Álvaro Mendes Barbosa abarbosa AT porto.ucp.pt
Project 12: Explore methods of knowledge transfer in large-scale complex problem solving for regional development. Host institution: University of Aveiro, Portugal; Lead supervisor: Joao Mota: joaomota AT ua.pt
Project 13: Develop design methodology for supporting the creative process of translating users' insights into value propositions. Host institution: Philips Research, The Netherlands; Lead supervisor: Boris de Ruyter: boris.de.ruyter AT philips.com
Further info:
http://www.comp. lancs.ac. uk/~corina/ DESIRE/vacancies .html
http://www.comp. lancs.ac. uk/~corina/ DESIRE/projects. html
Deadline: 1 December 2008
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