The Department of Computing at Macquarie University, in Sydney Australia, is expanding its teaching and research programs in Game Design and Development and looking to hire new staff. Positions range from level B (Lecturer, equivalent to Assistant Professor in US terms) to level D (Associate Professor, equivalent to Professor in US terms).
As a games researcher you will be part of MQ’s Serious Games Research Network, an active interdisciplinary network of games researchers from Computing, Media, Philosophy, Psychology, Cognitive Science and Creative Writing. Our research themes include:
- Ethical decision-making in videogames
- Reasoning and problem-solving in games
- Virtual Reality Games for Vision Science
- Virtual Reality Games for Social Neuroscience
- Games for Sustainability
- Narrative design for games
- Games for understanding multi-agent social interactions
You will also take have a role in developing Macquarie’s newly expanded Bachelor of Game Design and Development program, including teaching units in game design and virtual reality development.
Full details at http://jobs.mq.edu.au/cw/en/