Hours
1 x 0.8 FTE or 2 x 0.4 FTE Fixed Term Contracts
(0.8 FTE – Average hours of 28 per week)
(0.4 FTE – Average hours of 14 per week)
Hours can be worked flexibly to meet the needs of the individual and project requirements.
Contract Basis
1 x 0.8 FTE or 2 x 0.4 FTE Fixed Term Contracts to 31st July 2021.
Location
Working from home or your own premises, with virtual meetings with the project team
Role Purpose
In December 2020, Drs Lesley-Ann Dickson and Rebecca Finkel received SFC funding to undertake research to better understand how COVID-19 has had a strategic impact on film festivals in Scotland. It aims to capture the changing landscape of the operational and strategic response to COVID-19 by film festivals in Scotland, seeking to understand the changes caused by a rapid shift to digital, and provide a space for the lived voices of festival producers within these organisations. The project also will present an evidence-based picture of the social and cultural impacts on the various communities that festivals serve (general audiences, diasporas, marginalised groups, volunteers, young people, elderly patrons), engaging in wider debates about the effects of COVID-19 in terms of loss of community, mental health, isolation, and inequalities.
The role holder will work together with the project leads. We are seeking either one person for both phases, or this role can be split between two people for the first and second phases.
The first phase of the project focuses on the landscape and industry response. This specifically involves:
The second phase of the project focuses on audience and community response. This specifically involves:
Key Duties and Activities:
Working with the project team, the Research Assistant/s will be responsible for:
Phase 1: Landscape and Industry Responses
Phase 2: Audiences and Communities Responses
Person Specification – Essential
Person Specification – Desirable