Doctoral assistant Music Education 70%

3 Apr 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

LUCA School of Arts

Research Field

Arts » Performing arts

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Belgium

Application Deadline

1 Jun 2024 - 23:23 (Europe/Brussels)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

26

Offer Starting Date

15 Sep 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

LUCA School of Arts

Location: Campus Leuven

LUCA School of Arts is a multidisciplinary educational and research environment where creative talent can develop artistically, performatively and technically. In four cities (Brussels, Genk, Ghent and Leuven), LUCA bundles the educational expertise of five renowned institutes (Sint-Lukas, Narafi, C-mine, Sint-Lucas and Lemmens). The research within LUCA covers the full spectrum from demand-driven practice-oriented research to autonomous artistic research. The research is being developed in close collaboration with and embedded in the Associated Faculty of Arts of KU Leuven. With more than 800 staff and 4,000 students, LUCA is a creative hub for more than 4,800 artists, theater and filmmakers, designers, musicians, photographers, teachers, researchers…

Assignment

The Music & Drama research unit of LUCA School of Arts, Lemmens campus, offers a three-year part-time (70%) postdoctoral position, for candidates interested in artistic-educational research, embedded in the music education research cluster.

As a doctoral assistant, you carry out 50% of the postdoctoral research project. Your project relates to at least one, preferably several, of the research lines of the music education research cluster :

• Understanding the professional development of music educators, their role in educational innovation, and their potential as change agents in practitioner research.
• Studying the relevance and impact of music learning in the community, including music in schools, leisure and community music.
• Advancing improvisational practices in music education, ranging from musical improvisation activities to pedagogical improvisation.
• Making music education practices more (self-)critical and (self-)reflective through the involvement of music education philosophy.

In addition to setting up and carrying out your own research project, you contribute to the development of an inspiring and active research culture within the Music & Drama research unit. On the one hand, by coordinating research seminars and workshops for the researchers of the music education research cluster, and on the other hand, by participating and contributing to general cluster-wide research seminars and meetings of the research unit. Presence on campus is very important.

An important part of your assignment is the connection between your research project and education. As a doctoral assistant, you are 20% active as a teacher and thesis supervisor within the music education training programs.

Responsibilities

• Developing an artistic-educational research project.

• Take initiative to acquire external research funding.

• Coordinate research seminars within the music education research cluster.

• Actively participate in general research meetings of the Music & Drama research unit.

• Connecting your work as a teacher and researcher, in the context of research-based and -oriented education.

• Supporting teachers with research, teaching or guidance assignments.

Requirements

Research Field

Arts » Performing arts

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Profile

• You have a doctorate.

• You have strong expertise in the field of music education.

• You have a loyal attitude and endorse the assignment, mission, vision and policy of LUCA.

• You have a collegial attitude and you are a team player.

• You are an enthusiastic, enterprising person with inventive ideas who looks for improvements and experiments with new concepts.

• You can work independently, show a sense of responsibility and can withstand stress.

• You preferably have teaching experience within higher (art) education.

• You have an action plan for the implementation of your research project.

• You have an international (research) network.

You are communicative and can express yourself fluently in Dutch and English in accordance with the language requirements that apply in Flemish higher education.

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Good

Research Field

Arts » Performing arts

Years of Research Experience

4 - 10

Additional Information
Benefits

Offer

At LUCA you will find yourself in an environment where respect and integrity define our basic attitude, we see sustainability and diversity as an asset and quality is our driving force. In the coming years, we want to give LUCA an identity as an actor in society, make our training institute part of a laboratory, supplement our offering with demand-driven initiatives, and open up our multi-campus reality into a network. You will therefore find yourself in a stimulating environment in which we offer numerous opportunities to give your own interpretation on your main campus in Leuven or on one of the other campuses of LUCA School of Arts.

LUCA School of Arts wants to create an environment in which all talents can develop to their maximum potential, regardless of gender, age, cultural origin, nationality or disability. We therefore welcome all talented people who recognize the added value of diversity and want to help shape an inclusive organization.

We offer a fixed-term appointment (70%) for a period of three years in the vacant position of doctoral assistant (scale 509) with effect from September 15, 2024. More information about the salary scales can be found on the department's website education (www.ond.vlaanderen.be ).

Selection process

More information is available from Prof. Dr. Katrien Foubert, head of Music & Drama research: [email protected]

You can apply until June 1, 2024 to LUCA School of Arts, LUCA personnel department: via CV Warehouse.

An initial selection is made on the basis of the files. You may be invited for an interview in the week of June 17, 2024.

The nomination contains a file consisting of:

• a cover letter, including attention to the proposed strategy with regard to acquiring external research funding
• a project proposal (template available via [email protected] ): location of the research, research question and objectives, methodology, planning for three years; you make clear how this project proposal relates to the formulated research lines of the research cluster
• a resume
• certificate of diploma (if applicable, a declaration of equivalence of the requested diploma).

Only complete files are taken into account.

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Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

LUCA School of Arts

Country

Belgium

City

Leuven

Postal Code

3001

Street

Lemmensberg 3

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

http://www.luca-arts.be

Contact

City

Brussels

Website

http://www.luca-arts.be

Street

Paleizenstraat 70

Postal Code

1030

STATUS: EXPIRED