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Application form

Welcome to the Distance Lab online application form.

Please note this form is still a work in progress. We recommend that you work on your answers offline in a word processor and then copy/paste them into this form before submitting, just in case there are any difficulties with your web browser. If you encounter any problems, please contact us.

Position name or type

Please indicate the type of position you are interested in:

Research Associate (more information)

Internship / business internship / work experience (more information)

Other (please specify position name)

Personal details

First name
Last name
Mailing address (including country)
Telephone number
Alternate telephone number
Email address

Please double-check the spelling of your email address as it will be our main way of getting in touch with you, and please include country code with telephone numbers.

Do you require a work permit to work in the UK?
Yes No

In general, if you are not a citizen of an EU or European Economic Area country, the answer to the above question is 'yes'. However, answering 'yes' will not hurt your application at all -- we just need to know this at the time you apply. If you are not sure what your answer should be, the UK Border and Immigration department can provide advice. Please provide any explanation you wish in the space below:

Snapshot of academic experience

Please give details about your most recent academic experience and degrees received. Up to three experiences are accepted in this form, but you may include more information in your supplementary documents. You may leave fields blank if you feel they are not applicable.

Academic experience 1

Name of university/institute

Address of university/institute

Name of department/course

Name of degree/qualification

Name of academic advisor

Dates attended

Are you still enrolled
in this degree programme? Yes No

Academic experience 2

Academic experience 3

Snapshot of work experience

Please give details about the three most recent major positions you have held in companies or other organizations. Up to three experiences are accepted in this form, but you may include more information in your supplementary documents. You may leave fields blank if you feel they are not applicable.

Work experience 1

Name of employer

Address of employer

Name of department/group

Job title

Dates employed

Are you still employed
at this organization? Yes No

Work experience 2

Name of employer

Address of employer

Name of department/group

Job title

Dates employed

Are you still employed
at this organization? Yes No

Work experience 3

Name of employer

Address of employer

Name of department/group

Job title

Dates employed

Are you still employed
at this organization? Yes No

Information about your availablity

When would you like to start working at Distance Lab? (please give a date or say 'available now')

Research Associate applicants: By default, and unless otherwise specified, Research Associates are appointed full-time for a term of 2 years at Distance Lab's premises in Scotland. However, working part-time or for a shorter term may be possible. If you are interested in such an arrangement, or if you are not sure, please give detailed information below.

Internship applicants: Please give information about how long you would like to work at Distance Lab. Do you want to work part-time? Is the timing of your internship fixed by a degree programme?

Personal Statement

Please enter your personal statement in the space below. This statement should give us an impression of "what makes you tick". Who are you? What do you know how to do? What personal experiences or projects are you most proud of? What excites you about Distance Lab? How would you like to contribute to the development of the Lab?

Research Associate applicants: What ideas and research themes are you passionate about pursuing? What research questions are you eager to tackle? Unless otherwise specified, concrete project proposals are not required. However, if you are proposing to work in Distance Lab for less than one year and you are not responding to a specific advertisement, a project proposal is recommended, or at least you should be as detailed as possible about specific activities you propose to carry out.

Internship applicants: What kind of experience are you looking for?

This statement should be plain text and should not be longer than about one page of normal text.

Additional information

Expertise keywords

In what do you consider yourself an expert or near-expert? Please enter a short list of key words and phrases that describe your main skills and areas of expertise. (For example: programming in C and Java, ethnography, computer vision, industrial design, writing business plans, tuba performance...)

Academic programme arrangements (optional)

Distance Lab does not grant traditional academic degrees at this time. However, it is possible to pursue a degree at another institution while being employed as a researcher or intern at Distance Lab. If you wish your work at Distance Lab to contribute directly to activity required by your degree, a suitable arrangement should be forged among all the parties involved, including the academic institution in question, your academic advisor at that institution, and Distance Lab. If you have already been accepted or are currently enrolled in an academic degree programme and you are interested in pursuing an arrangement like this, please give detailed information below.

Referees

You should list two referees as part of your application. These can be professors of courses you have taken; supervisors of internships, practicums, or research; clients or supervisors in industry employment; people for whom you worked during summers or while in school...

Distance Lab may contact your referees in the course of evaluating your application, so please make sure you provide a correct email address or telephone number (or both) for each. You may leave fields blank if you feel they do not apply to a particular referee.

Referee 1

Full name
Title
Organization
Address
Email address
Telephone number

Referee 2

Full name
Title
Organization
Address
Email address
Telephone number

Portfolio, CV, post-specific materials, other documents

You are also encouraged to submit a full CV or any other information that you feel is important to support your application.

All research associate or internship applicants should submit a portfolio illustrating previous projects, clearly indicating roles taken in each project, in addition to any materials requested in an advertisement for a specific position.

You can upload up to 3 electronic documents with your application by selecting the files below. If possible, please send Adobe PDF format files. Please note the maximum accepted size is 10 megabytes per file. If you need to send a larger file, please contact us.

Document 1:
Briefly describe the contents of this file:

Document 2:
Briefly describe the contents of this file:

Document 3:
Briefly describe the contents of this file:

If you have a web-based portfolio or CV that you wish to offer for your application, please enter the URL below:

URL:

Physical documents

We strongly encourage submitting any additional materials in electronic form via the ways mentioned above, but if there are physical documents (or a DVD or CDROM, for example) that you wish to submit with your application, you can post them to this address:

Recruitment
Distance Lab
Horizon Scotland, The Enterprise Park
Forres, Moray
IV36 2AB
UK

Please mark your package clearly with your full name as specified on this application form. Please make sure your additional documents arrive by any listed application deadline.

Will you be submitting supplementary materials by physical mail?
Yes No

Recruitment channels

Where did you first hear about this position? From our mailing list? By browsing our web site? A print or web ad? Word of mouth? This information will help us evaluate the effectiveness of our recruitment channels:

Confidential Disclosure of Criminal Convictions

This post may involve contact with young people under the age of 18 and vulnerable adults. The post is therefore covered by the Exemptions Order to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and spent convictions must be declared.

Any information you provide will be treated as strictly confidential and will be considered only in relation to this application.

Disclosure of a conviction or caution does not necessarily mean that you will not be appointed. A candidate’s suitability will be assessed in light of all the information available. A main consideration will be whether the offence is one that would make a candidate unsuitable to work in a capacity that provides the opportunity for access to young persons or vulnerable adults.

Please enter the details of any criminal conviction or caution order below. For each offence, please state the date and nature of the offence, where it occurred, date of conviction and court, and the sentence given.

If you have not been convicted of any criminal offence, please enter "none".

A background check will be performed for successful candidates to verify the information provided above. This will involve us obtaining either a standard or an enhanced disclosure (depending upon the role) from the Scottish Criminal Record Office Disclosure Service, or an analogous record from another part of the world.

Equality and Diversity Monitoring Information

Distance Lab considers all applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, membership in the travelling community, sexual preference, age, marital status, medical condition, disability, or other legally protected status.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates are treated on the basis of their merits and abilities, and that unfair and unlawful discrimination is eliminated.

Research Associate applicants: You are required to give the following five pieces of data (date of birth, gender, nationality, ethnicity, and disability status). This data is required for UHI Millennium Institute's statutory return to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

All other candidates: Providing the following information is optional.

Date of Birth

Gender Male Female

Nationality

Ethnicity

Please select any of the following that you feel apply to you. You may select more than one box if you have multiple ethnic origins.
Asian - Indian
Asian - Pakistani
Asian - Bangladeshi
Asian - Chinese
Asian - Other

Black - Caribbean
Black - African
Black - Other White - British English
White - British Irish
White - British Scottish
White - British Welsh
White - British Other
White - Irish
White - Other

Dual Heritage - White and Black Caribbean
Dual Heritage - White and Black African
Dual Heritage - White and Asian
Dual Heritage - Other

Other Ethnicity

If you selected "Other" in any category, you may provide additional information below:

Disability

Disability is defined in the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 as a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial long-term effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day to day activities. "Long term" is taken to mean lasting for a period greater than twelve months or where the total period is likely to last at least twelve months.

Do you consider yourself to be disabled within the definition of this Act?
Yes
No

We recognise that many people who may be considered disabled under the terms of the DDA do not require any assistance or support. However for those who may, equipment, computer software, flexible working, other support or reasonable adjustment may be available, so an individual’s impairment would have little or no bearing on their capability to realise their employment potential. If you wish, please give further details here of any equipment or support you may need because of your disability to carry out the duties described in the job description or during the interview selection process. This may include any special consideration for access.

The rest of this section is OPTIONAL for all candidates -- you are not required to provide any of the following information, but doing so will help us monitor the success of our equal opportunities policy.

Sexual Orientation
Gay/Lesbian
Bisexual
Heterosexual

Transsexual status
Do you currently or have you previously considered yourself a transsexual person?
Yes
No

Marital or Civil Partnership status
Single
Married or Civil Partnership
Living with Partner

Dependents
Do you have caring responsibilities for a child, older person, or someone else? If so, please specify what types of persons you care for:

Relgion and Belief

Please select any of the following that you feel apply to you.
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism Islam
Judaism
Paganism Sikhism
No Religion or Belief
Other Religion or Belief

If you selected "Other", you may provide additional information below:

Feedback

This application form is still in development and we know it is not perfect. We would appreciate any feedback, good, bad or indifferent on this application form:

Submission

Please take a moment to check you have filled out all required sections of this form. When ready, please click the button below once to submit your application to Distance Lab. You will receive a confirmation email that recounts all of your answers on the form.

If you are uploading documents, please note there may be a delay after you press the following button. Please be patient and do not press it multiple times.

If you encounter errors during the submission process or have any other questions, please contact us.

General notes

Distance Lab will use the information submitted on this form for recruitment purposes only. If you wish to update the information you sent in your application, please email us with the amended details, or just submit a new application and we will delete the old version.