Research Fellow in Communication Design (073517)

We seek a Research Fellow in Commmunication Design, beginning February 1st 2018 for 18 months. They will take a leading role in the design of several interactive e-books with printed elements, in the domain of travel and tourism. The work is part of the Next Generation Paper project, and will be carried out under the supervision of Professor David Frohlich of Digital World Research Centre. The successful candidate will have a background in graphic and communication design, and an interest in multimedia documents and cross-media publishing.

Digital World Research Centre is an interdisciplinary centre conducting new media innovation projects with social and cultural benefit. It is based in the Department of Music and Media but is physically hosted within the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing. 

The University of Surrey is a global university with a world-class research profile and an enterprising spirit. Inventive and forward-thinking, its heritage shows a recurring theme of going its own way, doing things differently – and achieving notable results. The University of Surrey has risen in all major league tables for UK universities in the past year. We are proud to have been named University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016. We’ve climbed from sixth to fourth place in the Guardian University Guide for 2016, moved up to eighth place in the Complete University Guide 2016. The University is located in one of the safest counties in England, within 35 minutes of London by train and minutes away from the Surrey Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Recent investments have seen the opening of a world-class Sports Park and important updates to central facilities.

The Next Generation Paper project is a £1.17m project led by David Frohlich, running from 1st November 2017 for 30 months (https://www.surrey.ac.uk/digital-world-research-centre/news/next-generation-paper-award). The research focusses on how ordinary paper documents can be connected to the web through image recognition and/or embedded electronics sensing what page is open and where people are pointing.  It will be creating a number of experimental books with interactive properties and the post-holder will contribute to the design of these.  

For further information contact Professor David Frohlich at d.frohlich@surrey.ac.uk

Closing Date: 18 Oct 2017
Category: Research & Teaching