[Asis-l] Job - Professor and Director, Digital Life Lab, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

[Helen Partridge]

Dear Colleagues

This exciting new position for a leading social science research (including LIS) may be of interest:

Professor and Director, Digital Life Lab
University of Southern Queensland, Australia

USQ’s Digital Life Lab will establish itself as a leader within the emerging national and international research and practice community studying the nature, impact, opportunities and challenges of people and communities living digitally. The Lab will be a research and practice hub that will explore and understand how digital technologies transform our social relationships and cultural practices, creating new problems but also providing novel opportunities to address societal challenges. The Lab will engage in applied discovery and will be an incubator of ideas and applications. From the Lab’s research and practice will come the innovations needed to inform how people and communities can live digitally.

The Director will provide strategic direction, leadership and innovative management of the Digital Life Lab. The position will suit an academic who possesses strong visionary, strategic and collegial management and leadership skills. The incumbent will have an excellent track record of high impact applied research relevant to the Digital Life Lab, along with considerable experience in successfully leading vibrant and collaborative multi-disciplinary research and innovation teams. The Director will be a highly motivated and inspirational leader and researcher who can develop and promote an environment and culture within the Digital Life Lab, which is intellectually challenging and stimulating and has a focus on excellence, collaboration, curiosity, boldness, risk taking and innovation.

Applications close 12th August

More details can be found at:  http://tinyurl.com/j5v9ew5


Cheers
Helen


Professor Helen Partridge
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Scholarly Information and Learning Services) & Executive Director, Australian Digital Futures Institute

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