Research Assistant

3 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham City University Full time

**Location**:

- Birmingham, West Midlands**Salary**:

- £31,762 to £34,525 Per Annum- Fixed Term**Post Type**:

- Full Time**Release Date**:

- 26 May 2023**Closing Date**:

- 23.59 hours BST on Wednesday 31 May 2023**Reference**:

- 052023-262Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a leading centre for research in music and performing arts at the heart of Birmingham City University, and the host institution for the AHRC-funded project, ‘Aural Histories: Coventry 1451-1642’.

This is an opportunity to join an exciting interdisciplinary research project investigating the experience of music in late-medieval and early-modern Coventry, within VR reconstructions of its lost performing spaces. Architectural sites of interest include St Michael’s Cathedral, destroyed by incendiary bombs in the blitz of 1940, together with surviving medieval buildings including Holy Trinity Church and St Mary’s Guildhall. We seek a post-doctoral research assistant with expertise in 3D computer modelling to work with the team including an architectural historian, acoustician, musicologists, and performers, to create digital models of these buildings as they might have appeared at different points in history, which will integrate with acoustic modelling software to help us understand the effects of material changes to the buildings on musical performance.

As Research Assistant on this project your principal duties and responsibilities will be to Build 3D models of the buildings in question, including post-processing of point cloud data from LiDAR scans of extant buildings and extrapolating from the ruins of St Michael’s Cathedral, supplemented by a variety of historical evidence provided by the wider research team.

**Skills and Experience**:

- Higher degree (preferably a doctorate) in a relevant field (e.g., architecture, archaeology, cultural heritage).
- Expertise in 3D modelling and visualisation, including industry standard software.
- Experience of working on collaborative research projects.

**Further details**:

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