Jobs/internships have just been updated … Also a wee note of thanks for the many applications received for the assistant editor role with culturalpolicy.ie — we’ll be back in touch with everyone soon!
Reminder: asst. editor for culturalpolicy.ie
Just a wee reminder that the closing date for applications for the assistant editor of the Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy (culturalpolicy.ie) is tomorrow, 25 April (see all details in previous blog post).
Many thanks!
Emily
Vacancy: Assistant Editor, Irish Journal of Arts Management & Cultural Policy
Vacancy: Assistant Editor, Irish Journal of Arts Management & Cultural Policy (www.culturalpolicy.ie) (temporary; part-time)
School of Art History & Cultural Policy, University College Dublin
Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Organization Description
The Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy (www.culturalpolicy.ie) is a peer-reviewed, open access e-journal publishing original research on the arts and cultural sector in Ireland. An initiative sponsored by School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin (UCD) and Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), it seeks to provide a readable and engaging discussion of recent arts management and cultural policy research for academics and practitioners, encourage new research directions in the sector and offer a platform for aspiring researchers and writers. The Journal’s aims include to:
- Disseminate high quality, recent academic research on all aspects of Irish arts management and cultural policy in an accessible, dynamic and professionally designed format
- Serve as an educational resource for arts management and cultural policy professionals, and students studying related topics
- Support the skill development of professionals working in the arts and cultural sector
- Encourage debate on topical issues related to arts and cultural management/policy
- Support and grow a vibrant Irish research community, allowing for the exchange of ideas and promoting research collaborations between individuals and organizations
Articles published by the Journal span the following areas:
- cultural policy
- arts and cultural management
- cultural tourism and the creative industries
- cultural economics and finance
- heritage and museum studies
- arts education
- governance and administration
- arts marketing
- audience development and participation
- philanthropy / fundraising
- cultural production / consumption
The project is edited and managed by an editorial team of academics, with further input from its international advisory board.
Role
We are currently seeking expressions of interest in the role of Assistant Editor for Issue 2 of IJAMCP. This role provides an excellent opportunity to gain experience in editing and online publishing, and would be especially suitable for recent graduates (or current PhDs) of postgraduate programmes in related disciplines.
Working in conjunction with the Editorial Board, the Assistant Editor will be responsible for assistance with copy editing, administration tasks, correspondence and online editing/layout. This is a flexible, part-time, and temporary project role which is unpaid, but carries a stipend of €500. Running from May 2014-May 2015, the time commitment is variable but will be approximately 3-5 hours weekly. Bi-monthly meetings in Dublin will be required, but otherwise the candidate may be based anywhere.
Candidates should possess:
- a postgraduate qualification in Arts Management, Cultural Policy or a related field
- demonstrated research achievement and strong knowledge of the Irish cultural sector
- strong working knowledge of word processing software and ability to quickly learn online content management systems
- attention to detail and excellent editing/writing skills
- ability to work independently and with access to own laptop/computer
Please forward on a CV and cover letter expressing your interest in the role to info@culturalpolicy.ie by Friday, 25 April 2014.
New arts management jobs posted!
Apologies for the delay in updating the jobs section of the blog — had to step back for a bit the last few weeks, but am back again at full speed (yikes!)
Lots of great new opportunities posted — a few with closing dates this week, so dust off the CVs tout suite if you’re job-seeking…
Happy new year! Weathering the storms…
Well, the recycling bins are overflowing, the tree disposal centres are looking a bit sad, but at least the storm clouds finally seem to be breaking… although perhaps not over Limerick, quite yet (oh dear…)
After a very quiet semester on the blogging front, I’ll be back with regular updates in the coming weeks, and of course, regular job postings and event announcements.
2013 was quite the rollercoaster for the arts & cultural community — we’ve had a nasty budget with bodies like Culture Ireland and National Cultural Institutions especially hard-hit; the spectacular collapse of Temple Bar Cultural Trust and the closure of the Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick (and worrying times for the Irish Architectural Archives too); campaigns highlighting the precarious position of visual artists and compensation and the need for cultural research and better policy-making processes; controversies over corporate arts sponsorships and the Arts Council Music Recording Scheme bursaries.
Amidst the gossip and gloom there have been many bright spots as well — a very successful run by Derry as City of Culture; Rough Magic and Opera Theatre Company’s fab win in the Sky Arts Ignition competition; booming times for Culture Night nationwide;The Gathering (despite its rocky start) now being hailed as a great success. In our own neck of the woods here at UCD, we launched the new Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy and are looking ahead to issue 2 very soon.
What’s in store for 2014? The fallout from the Limerick City of Culture debacle is set to continue (though a new CEO has just been announced) — and in many ways it serves as an apt distillation of the challenges ahead. The bungled initiative has thrown into painful (and public) relief what we already know: the dominant rhetoric of corporate ‘rebranding’ and clashing conceptions of what a ‘city of culture’ is actually meant to deliver; public ‘cultural management’ practices which betray no deep understanding of either term; the small, imbalanced budgets now assigned to major arts events with the expectation of high (usually non-arts) returns; and the shockingly poor control of taxpayer-funded initiatives by the government department meant to oversee them.
There’s still time for Limerick to get its act together — and the mass turnout at public meetings and high level of publicity generated over the past few days bodes well for Limerick CoC. This matters deeply to many people, in Limerick and nationwide. However the issues underlying CoC that have fuelled this crisis have been with us for some time – and they aren’t going away. I’m looking forward to lots of discussions and debates over the coming months over how we can improve relationships between cultural policy, art practice and public funding, across all of the artform sectors. One of the benefits of working in a university is the boundless energy and enthusiasm for change and opportunity in the arts which floods through our doors every year. And as we enter into a new year, I’m taking a page from their book: perhaps we all need to adopt Woody Guthrie’s final New Year’s resolution (from his list that’s been making the rounds): Wake Up and Fight.
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