The current opportunity is available for current Manchester Met students, to apply you must be based in the UK for the duration of the role.
Assistant for Sounds of the Soil workshop
We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented student assistant to support our Research Team with an ongoing academic project. In this role, you will assist with data collection and collaborate on the project, ‘Fostering Place-Based Ecological Literacy’. The ideal candidate possesses a foundational understanding of or a strong academic interest in sustainability. You should be a confident communicator who thrives when collaborating within multidisciplinary environments and working alongside diverse groups of people.
The workshop explores how we might come to know soil more deeply by engaging with cutting‑edge developments in soil‑sound technology. Through an interactive, sensory‑based workshop, we invite participants to encounter the living voice of the Earth using biosonification tools that convert natural processes into sound. In collaboration with soil scientist Natasha Fell from Lancaster University, we will compare real‑time soil activity across different soil environments and discuss what these sonic signatures reveal about ecosystems, health, and human impact. Together, we will then consider how listening to soil transforms the ways in which we understand and relate to it.
Date: 27 June 2026
Hours of Work: 10:00am - 5:00pm