Chair of Board (voluntary role)
Would you like to be our strategic leader as the Chair of the Land of Oak and Iron Landscape Partnership Board?
Contact: Development Manager, Lisa Shearer lisa.shearer@groundwork.org.uk
or 01207 524 865
Closing Date: Friday 16th May
Nka Foundation invites entries for Mud House Design 2014, an international architecture competition open to recent graduates and students of architecture, design and others from around the world who think earth architecture can be beautiful.
The challenge is to design a single-family unit of about 30 x 40 feet on a plot of 60 x 60 feet to be built by maximum use of earth and local labor in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The client of your design is the middle-income family in any township of your choice in the Ashanti Region. Total costs of constructing the design entry must not exceed $6,000; land value is excluded from this price point. The entry should serve as an example to the local people that mud architecture can be beautiful and durable.
Registration and submission of entries run from March 15, 2014 until August 31, 2014.
We have been working in partnership with the Design Council over the past two years to demonstrate the key role design plays in creating economic benefits and social value in the UK, and to explore design research in UK universities and its connections with businesses and policymakers. We now wish to test some of these ideas in a study which will examine how businesses and public sector organisations in a particular location use design in their work, and what the impact of this is on their ability to innovate and their economic performance.
Closes 28 April 2014
The Joint Programming Initiative in Cultural Heritage and Global Change is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for transnational proposals in the area of cultural heritage. This Heritage Plus call is designed to generate new, research-based knowledge to promote the sustainable use and management of cultural heritage and so to meet societal challenges and contribute to development. The call aims to fund excellent collaborative, transnational, interdisciplinary, innovative R&D projects focussed mainly on tangible cultural heritage research.
This call is open to early career researchers of post-doctoral (or equivalent) standing from a range of disciplines both within the arts and humanities and beyond, interested in contributing to the development of the Connected Communities Programme.
We wish to encourage EOIs from individuals with expertise in a wide range of cultural contexts in both the UK and overseas, past and present, who are interested in bringing their expertise into dialogues which span other cultural and geographic contexts and time periods.
This call offers design researchers the chance to work in collaboration with a business or public sector organisation that is interested in putting design principles into practice. The Fellowship will fund design researchers to spend up to 12 months embedded in such organisations, working on a collaborative project that will be of interest and benefit to both the researcher and the host organisation.
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
The McDonald Institute invites applications for the fourth of five three-year post-doctoral Anniversary Research Fellowships. We are an interdisciplinary centre for archaeology and the research school of the Division of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. The Institute is in central Cambridge.
The Department of Conservation at the University of Gothenburg offers professional degrees and research programs that address cultural heritage issues including: urban environments, landscapes, buildings, gardens, and objects.
The University of Lincoln is investing over half a million pounds in new strategic research opportunities, including fully-funded PhD studentships to start in September 2014.
These are opportunities for exceptional candidates to undertake well-defined research projects with supervisory teams in one of the UK’s most dynamic and innovative universities. 20 fully-funded candidates will be entitled to full UK/EU fees and a stipend of £15,000 a year for a maximum of three and a half years. A number of part-funded PhD studentships are also available.
As part of this year’s Science Festival, Scottish Historic Building’s Trust are proud to present BRICK WONDERS, renowned LEGO artist Warren Elsmore’s latest creation. In recent years, Elsmore has organised huge events, and has even exhibited displays to VIPs and royalty. Now, he returns to Edinburgh with BRICK WONDERS, a fabulous exhibition featuring LEGO models of the Wonders of the World.
Love LEGO? We are looking for volunteers to help us man this event – get involved! To find out more please contact sarah@shbt.org.uk
Somerset and Devon County Councils are seeking a chair and up to seven trustees to lead an important new charity. To be called the South West Heritage Trust, the new organisation will help to protect and celebrate the rich heritage of Somerset and Devon. This independent Trust will deliver the heritage services currently provided by the two councils, with guaranteed funding of £10m over five years.
Successful applicants will use their experience and passion for the heritage of Somerset and Devon to lead and shape the trust. It will be a rewarding and challenging opportunity. The Trust’s role will include managing the Museum of Somerset in Taunton and the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury (which has recently secured funding of £1.6m for redevelopment), curatorial care of more than three million museum objects ranging from Bronze Age gold to modern art, caring for and making available the written evidence of Somerset and Devon history from the 8th century to the present day, and protecting Somerset’s historic environment.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Research Fellow with relevant qualifications and research experience to investigate the organization, management, business strategy and financing of the practice of Sir George Gilbert Scott, Europe’s largest architectural firm of the Victorian era. The project will set the Scott practice in the context of Victorian commerce, society, religion and architecture, and will focus on the rebuilding of Glasgow University from 1864-1878, as a major case study.
Further details: LINK
Each year the Construction History Society awards a book prize to a student for a dissertation or thesis with a strong construction history theme or topic. These should be submitted by the student’s tutor or department and universities and colleges should apply to the Secretary for details.
Further details: LINK
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