Job Description

Assistant Researcher - two posts

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Department
Visual Cultures
Vacancy Type
Fixed-Term
Contract Length
12 months initially
Full-Time/Part-Time
Full Time
Salary
31,720 - 34,925
Actual Hours
35
FTE
1
Interview Date
To be confirmed
Contact Details
recruitment@forensic-architecture.org
Posted Date
02/09/2025
Closing Date
22/09/2025
Ref No
10542

What makes Goldsmiths unique?

Goldsmiths is a world-renowned university that has a reputation for rigorous and innovative academic work; creativity has long been our hallmark. Academic excellence and imaginative course content combine to make a place where creative minds can thrive.

About the Agency

Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, operating across human rights, journalism, architecture, art and aesthetics, academia and the law. Our mandate is to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence.

About the Role

We are seeking to appoint two Assistant Researchers.



The successful applicants will be joining a team of researchers based on Goldsmiths University's campus, working on frontier research projects that mobilize architectural techniques and technologies to reconstruct incidents of violations of human rights, war crimes and environmental destruction worldwide. One such project seeks to re-examine cases of restraint-related police killings of racialised individuals in mental health crises attributed to pseudoscientific 'diagnoses' in legal settings.

About the Candidate

The successful candidates will have technical experience with the technologies that FA uses such as 3D environmental modelling / animation, character modelling / animation, and/or video editing, as well as capacity for learning new software and techniques.



Please see the and Person Specification PDF for the detailed duties for these two posts.

Benefits

We have generous benefits - an agile working environment, 22 days' annual leave plus 6 paid closure days (4 at Christmas and 2 at Easter) plus all Bank Holidays, great transport links, a defined benefit pension scheme, support for professional development and a broad range of wellbeing initiatives such as staff choir, running club and creative writing classes.



At Goldsmiths, University of London, we are deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion.