01 Who are we?
DKU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative (InE) serves as a platform and resource center to foster interdisciplinarity in practice, nurture entrepreneurship by fostering experiential learning environments, and transform ideas into actions with meaningful impacts. To achieve those goals, we are developing four strategic programs under the InE: DKU Innovation Incubator (Dii); University-Corporate Collaborative Innovation Lab (U-Corp); Innovation Lab (InLab), and Future Society Lab (FSLab).
Future Society Lab is an interdisciplinary research hub of InE which focuses on social innovation with a dynamic, systematical, and futurist perspective. We investigate the fundamental social issues and explore innovative opportunities for social changes via technology, design, and entrepreneurship.
02 Job Openings
Research Assistant: Research Assistant for the Future Society Lab
(8-10 opening positions)
Student Worker: Podcast Producer for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative
(1 opening position)
03 Job Descriptions
01 Research Assistants for
the Future Society Lab
Application Info:
To apply, please email your resume & cover letter (Indicate which area of the four you are interested in) in one file(name format: First Name_Last Name_RA_SW.pdf) to:
zhengyang.chen@dukekunshan.edu.cn no later than Sept 15, 11:59 PM.
Position Overview:
The student will be mainly responsible for participating in the Future Society Lab’s research projects and assisting in other research activities and helping to develop new projects with other team members.
Research Interests:
As a start, the Future Society Lab will comprise four core areas of research that can be summarized as C.I.T.E.
- Culture: Cultural and Creative Empowerment for Rural Revitalization
It mainly explores the possibilities of leveraging arts and design in rural villages with deep implantation in the local community. We hope to find a way to foster economic and social development in the village from the bottom-up instead of the top-down through a highly quantified and bureaucratic system. - Inclusion: Inclusive Digital Social Governance
The fundamental aim of this topic is to provide methods and guidelines for improving the inclusiveness of digital social governance for diverse social members and social scenarios in the context of benefiting from artificial intelligence technologies. - Technology: Human Factors / Ergonomics Design in Smart Cities
Intelligent computing technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, and spatial data integration for GIS are reshaping the future of urban life. We will try to construct a series of resident-city interaction patterns and systems from a human-centered perspective. - Entrepreneurship: Future Social Enterprises
We will investigate rapidly evolving and emerging technologies as well as other global trends that may impact the future of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. We will also explore the core drivers of change in social enterprises and how social innovators can use these drivers to create sustainable strategies to solve the wicked social problems facing our world and transform society.
Required Qualifications:
- Excellent ability to learn quickly, and a strong capacity to work under pressure.
- Creative self-starter who is responsible, methodical, flexible and comfortable with both taking the initiative and working in a collaborative team.
- Experience with machine learning, data analysis, visualization, OR open source hardware, creative design, programming, OR other related software skills is a plus.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in both English and Chinese.
- Preferably able to work onsite for at least 12 months.
02 Podcast Producer for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative
Application Info:
To apply, please email your resume & cover letter in one file (name format: First Name_Last Name_Communication Intern.pdf) to: zhengyang.chen@dukekunshan.edu.cn no later than Sept 15, 11:59 PM.
Position Overview:
The Student Worker will be mainly responsible for running the InE Podcast accounts across various platforms. The Student Worker will work on ideating, planning, hosting, and editing podcast shows; meanwhile, this position also covers certain responsibilities of marketing and branding InE among a large community. Our Podcast channels will continuously spread innovation and entrepreneurship spirits.
Essential Duties:
- Work in overall podcast production flow as needed, including pre-researching, inviting guests, writing scripts, hosting the podcast shows, cutting tape, finding archival news clips, assembling mixes, and scoring episodes.
- Contribute and implement fresh ideas to keep content exciting and innovative, including the development of themes, formats, and concepts for future episodes.
- Develop and manage music, trailers, and other social assets for the podcast.
- Work to create a steady production cadence and complete all post-production work, including editorial, marketing, social, and operations, to program the shows in concert with broader InE content plans and other events.
- Ideate, implement, and test creative new segments within the podcast, utilizing data to guide iteration.
- Identify guests that would be good candidates for the podcast and manage the podcast guest database, ensuring a steady pipeline and high-quality outreach.
- Other tasks as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Prior experience as a podcast producer or students who are interested in media arts will be preferred.
- Excellent organizational skills, flexibility and a strong capacity to work under pressure.
- Ability to translate a rough concept into a living, reproducible audio product.
- Experience in using audio (and ideally video) equipment and software.
- Self-starter, strong collaborator, and effective communicator.
- Ability to maintain great attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
- A solution-oriented person who is able to manage multiple projects at once.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
- Preferably able to work onsite for at least 6 months.
Please apply before Sept 15, 11:59 PM by sending your Resume, Cover Letter and other supporting materials to zhengyang.chen@dukekunshan.edu.cn!