Project Officer (012718)

We seek a part-time Project Officer on the Next Generation Paper project, beginning April 5th 2018 for 25 months. The post-holder will provide administrative support for research activities on the project, including event organisation, project documentation and dissemination, travel, purchasing and web maintenance.They will report to Professor David Frohlich of Digital World Research Centre. The successful candidate will have a background in management, administration and/or communication with an interest in new technology.

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.

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

Closing Date: 27 Feb 2018
Category: Professional Services