At RITCS
There are types of researchers at RITCS:
- At RITCS, you can do doctoral research. If you have a Master (in Arts), you can start your own research project as a PhD student. RITCS can then function as a research environment, and there is collaboration with the Free University of Brussels (VUB) that awards the diplomas. Brussels Arts Platform organizes these trajectories. Every year, in principle, some mandates become available for this kind of research, the vacancies (part-time) appear, via the website of EhB, usually around June-July. The contract then starts from 1 October. To apply, candidates should have the commitment of a supervisor (a professor at the VUB, or with a double mandate at RITCS/VUB), and make a dossier detailing the research proposal: research questions, methodology, work plan, state of the art in the proposed research area, motivation for the RITCS. These vacancies for PhD students can be completely open - any field: audiovisual arts, drama,... - or focused on a specific topic of research.
- A number of teachers work, collectively or individually, on research projects awarded every four years as part of the so-called ‘programme funding’, which runs over four years. This is a budget allocated to the Schools of Arts by the Flemish government, through Erasmushogeschool Brussel (EhB). Currently, the fourth year of this programme is running, for the period 2021-2025. The mandates - usually part-time, 30% - are awarded after an internal application procedure. Thus, anyone belonging to the teaching staff of the RITCS can apply for it. Exceptionally, RITCS attracts researchers from outside, for short projects, or for the so-called ‘laboratories’: these are permanent places for research within RITCS, such as XL Air (radio), MOBO (media library/archive) or Transfo:Collect (diversity/urbanity/performance). When (external) vacancies come up for these, they appear on the website of EhB.
The RITCS Research Committee, in which all educational programmes are represented, decides on the recruitment of candidate researchers.
More on research at the RITCS via the website.