This opportunity is aimed at Postgraduate Researchers who have funding through a Doctoral Training Partnership to undertake a placement as part of their studentship.
Key Placement Information
Closing Date
Tuesday 6th January 2026 23:59 (UK time)
Start Date
Monday 2nd March 2026
Duration
3 months (or part-time equivalent)
Full-time or Part-time
Flexible
In Person, Online or Hybrid
Hybrid, but mainly online
Project Areas
Research
How to Apply
Send a CV and cover letter (written or audio-visual format)
Project Description
Lora Krasteva is an artist, cultural producer and activist. She creates multi-disciplinary, devised, socially and politically engaged works that connect communities, artists, institutions and decision-makers.
She is looking for a Project Assistant to support her with her latest creative project: Return (working title) is a multi-sensory performance project about the complex dynamics behind the idea of returning.
In a world increasingly obsessed with borders, many demand others “go back to where they came from”: anti-immigration rhetoric & sentiments continues to rise with the previously far-right idea of “remigration” gaining mainstream traction at home & abroad. Many people might in fact be considering “going back”: be that because of their (economic) reality in the UK or the hostile environment, amongst other reasons. At the same time, many do not want or do not have where else to go since the UK is their home.
Return will investigate these dynamics through 6 lenses (migration & territory; return and its impacts on the body; return as ritual; return to the land and its relationship to the more-than-human; food and culinary aspects and return and grief). The projects combine binaural sound performance, text and object storytelling in a “box” delivered to audiences, inviting them to be both spectators and participants.
Lora is open to interested candidates co-developing the placement to include the following identified areas of work:
- Migration statistics globally (forced displacement, exile, migrants, refugees etc and any numbers about people returning to country of origin)
- Return definitions and effects across disciplines (psychology, psychoanalytic, sociology and political sciences etc)
- Research into the 6 identified topics of return and more if they emerge
- Overview of topics (examples: saudades, melancholy, nostalgia…)
- Modelling in the art world: researching projects that have used these topics, especially interactive visual arts and performance/ remote performances/ games and experiences
View further details, including how to apply: "Return" Project Assistant - Placement Opportunity
