#projecteam

I am looking for a Research Assistant from current BA (Hons) Dance students at the University of Northampton to participate in the DECO research project, funded by the University of Northampton Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The project includes funding for a Research Assistant to nominally work 1 hour a week until July 2015, totalling 5 days. The total payment for the role will be £590.

Project Information

This project will develop an Open Educational Resource for dance students and enthusiasts who wish to identify, articulate and develop their own choreographic practice. As the project lead, I will do this by using my own developing choreographic practice as a ‘case study’, documenting and reflecting on time spent in the studio choreographing. The OER will be created on tumblr, and used in my undergraduate teaching to facilitate blended learning on the BA Dance module DAN1007 Foundations in Choreography from 2015/2016.

The project aims to:

Create an OER that can be used to support the development of choreographic practice

Involve students in pedagogical research, and the development of OERs/blended provision

Explore the use of tumblr as a platform to develop and house OERs

Investigate how ‘tagging’ can be used to catalogue, arrange and rearrange materials to create an interactive, non-linear OER

Promote dance research at the University of Northampton through the organisation of a conference

Contribute to my CPD by continuing my research in to educational uses of social media, and exploring, documenting and reflecting on my choreographic practice

Role

The Research Assistant will work closely with the project lead, with duties which may involve as siting with:

The documentation of studio practice

The preparation and delivery of choreographic laboratories

The organisation of research events

The development of the OER

The preparation and delivery of focus groups and interviews

It is also expected that the Research Assistant will be involved in giving paper presentations at conferences and preparing a journal article with the project lead.