£11.44 per hour + £1.38 holiday pay
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23 Feb 2025
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  • FASS-Exclusive Internship: Litcraft Educational Researcher (Launch)

Role & Department Overview

Please note: This internship is only available to current students registered on a degree scheme in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster University.  If you apply for this role the information within your application will be shared with the recruiting organisation.

Litcraft is a multi-modal resource designed to re-engage children with reading through play. It connects reading the text outside the game world with exploration in Minecraft world builds corresponding to the literary map for a narrative (e.g. Treasure Island).  It was created by academics at Lancaster University and is led by Professor Sally Bushell in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing. You can find out all about it at the newly designed website: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/litcraft/

 
This internship is for a total of 35-hours. The internship is centred on the launch of a major partnership build for Litcraft.  Litcraft has been in partnership with Minecraft Design Company, Blockworks (see https://www.blockworks.uk) for the last 18 months working on a large scale build for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with 6 embedded interactive narratives/ tasks.  This involves a huge map of Victorian London made in Minecraft.  This build will go live in the summer of 2025 on the Minecraft Marketplace where the anticipated audience is 4 million. 

The internship role is two-fold:  
 
  1. You will test the resource at Lancaster Boy’s Grammar and gather direct data and feedback from users.                                                                                                                                                                                                        
  2. You will undertake research into how best to launch the new build to gain maximum publicity. This will involve working with the Press office at Lancaster; working with social media and designing a strategy to maximise interest; identifying key digital /gaming events for us to attend. If time and finances allow you will be directly involved in attending these events.
Please submit a CV (maximum of two sides) and a Cover Letter (maximum one side) both tailored to the role. 
 
Start Date: 31st March 2025 (with some flexibility)

End Date: 30th of September 2025
 
Interview date:13th of March 2025

Working Pattern: A combination of remote, campus and external schools working, hours to be agreed with Litcraft before commencement (This internship is 35-hours in total).

Job Description

Main Duties:
 
  • Working as an advocate of Litcraft in schools
  • Delivering the resource to a small group of boys/ working with Professor Bushell to do this
  • Observing effectively
  • Gathering data
  • Analysing data 
  • Helping to develop a launch strategy
  • Using social media and online resources to launch the new build

Person Specification

Skills Required:
 
  • An interest in English Literature/ Education/ Literacy
  • An interest in working with young people
  • Good administrative and organisational skills 
  • Good communication skills 
  • Good written skills
  • Good social media skills
  • Some technical knowledge of Minecraft or experience with the game (preferred but not essential)
  • An ability to work independently 
Working in this role will help develop the following skills and experience:
 
  • Business Development
  • Collaboration
  • Commercial awareness
  • Interpersonal sensitivity
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Planning and organising
  • Problem solving
  • Research
  • Teamwork
  • Time Management
  • Verbal communication
  • Written communication
For any queries about this role please email  [email protected]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

You are required to submit a cover letter to support your application. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

Please note: Unless specified otherwise in the advert wording, this role is only open to individuals living in the UK.

Under the terms of this work, we endeavour to provide the advertised number of hours however, hours are not guaranteed and that work may cease if there is a fall in demand. 

Adverts that display a closing date should be treated as a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

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Help and advice on making applications can be found on the Lancaster University Careers pages. Visit www.lancaster.ac.uk/careers.

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