Senior Vice President and Vice President - United Kingdom - Pick for Britain

Description

Fixed term
Full time
Hybrid – LCF East Bank Stratford/Home

University of the Arts London's (UAL) is looking for a Senior R&D Fellow in VP/XR Textiles and Dress, to join us on a fixed term basis.

9m AHRC Creative Research & Development Partnership funding award , the Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology as part of the UKRI Creative Industry Cluster Programme.

UAL's FTTI is hosting a new multi-million specialist Virtual Production (VP)/Extended Reality (XR) laboratory, creating capacity for innovative, transdisciplinary practice-led research in VP/XR textiles and dress, working broadly across the creative and cultural industries.

The campus forms part of a new powerhouse for research, innovation, creativity and learning through a novel collaboration between world-leading universities, cultural bodies, industry and local communities.

To address this nascent field of textiles and dress, UAL convenes a unique range of expertise across UAL's colleges, institutes, and research centres.

The specialist lab will drive forward an ambitious research agenda, build capacity to meet wide ranging sector needs, and support significant growth potential for the UK's creative and cultural economy.

The Senior R&D Fellow in VP/XR Textiles and Dress will bring a relevant and applicable creative and/or XR technical textile/dress practice to lead on the development and delivery of novel R&D toward advancing hybrid physical, screen and real-time spaces.

As an experienced researcher, they will lead and support the development of creative and technical VP/XR innovation in textiles and dress and develop and deliver a programme of novel Research and Development (R&D).

The ideal candidate will have a Doctoral and/or Postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline, or industry equivalent experience in textiles and dress innovation, technology or equivalent research.

They will also need relevant industry experience in disciplines such as film and TV production, CGI, games, animation, VR, AR, XR and MR.

Knowledge/experience of supporting concepts, practices, and procedures used in cloth rendering, textile simulation or visual effects and film production is desired.

We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.
If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Twinkle Brahmbhatt, Senior Resourcing Adviser via email at
We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks.

We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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