Livingmaps Network: Recruitment 

Livingmaps Network is recruiting active volunteers to run our three core activities: Livingmaps Review, Livingmaps Seminars and Livingmaps Conference 

Livingmaps Review 

Livingmaps Review curates and publishes critical, interdisciplinary writing on counter and participatory mapping, creative mapping, and community cartography. It serves as a platform for scholarship, practice-based research, and critical dialogue across the Livingmaps Network and beyond. It has four core sections, each with a dedicated editor(s): Navigations, Waypoints, Mapworks, Lines of Desire. More information on the remit of each section can be found here: 

We are looking to recruit at least three section editors and an editor-in-chief to commit to two issues of the journal each year (Spring / Autumn)

Key tasks for each section editor:

  • Issue calls for papers and targeted commissioning of contributors for your section of the journal

  • Manage, edit and liaise with contributing authors from submission through to publication

  • Ensure all contributions are line with the journal style guide  

  • Liaise with editor-in-chief 

  • Attend bi-annual editorial meetings 

  • Promote issues via newsletters, social media, and professional networks

Key tasks for editor-in-chief:

  • Oversee each issue and manage editorial team 

  • Take a lead role in issue planning and publication

  • Issue calls for papers and targeted commissioning of contributors where necessary

  • Format all submissions for the Livingmaps website

  • Write an editorial for each issue, summarising the key themes of the issue and outlining each paper

  • Organise and chair bi-annual editorial meetings

  • Promote issues via newsletters, social media, and professional networks

Livingmaps Seminars

Livingmaps seminars are regular virtual events featuring researchers, practitioners, and activists from the network and beyond. Each series is shaped by a theme and curated by the series lead. It creates an accessible forum for sharing ideas, projects, and debates across geographical boundaries.

We are looking to recruit at least one person to lead one seminar series (5-6 seminars) each year, starting from Spring 2027

Key tasks for seminar lead:

  • Develop thematic programming with board of directors 

  • Curate a programme of 5-6 seminar each year (identify, invite, and confirm speakers and panellists)

  • Coordinate event logistics (dates, times, Eventbrite page setup)

  • Manage registrations and attendee communications

  • Host and chair seminars

  • Produce promotional materials for Eventbrite, social media and Livingmaps mailing list / website 

  • Collect participant feedback and evaluate engagement

Livingmaps Conference

The annual conference convenes network members and partners for intensive exchange, collaboration, and public engagement. It strengthens visibility, builds partnerships, and advances research and practice agendas.

We are looking for 2-3 people to become the organising committee for one annual conference each year, usually held in June 

Key Tasks:

  • Define conference theme and objectives with the board of directors 

  • Issue call for papers/projects/workshops

  • Coordinate programme selection

  • Secure venue (physical or digital) and manage logistics

  • Develop budget and oversee financial management

  • Seek sponsorships and funding support (if possible)

  • Coordinate keynote speakers and special sessions

  • Manage registrations and delegate communications

  • Ensure accessibility and inclusion planning

  • Produce conference materials (programme, website, signage)

  • Document proceedings (recordings, photography, written reports)

  • Conduct post-event evaluation and reporting

What we require from you:

  • An interest in the scope and activities of the network 

  • A desire and drive to take ownership of the role and develop it 

  • A commitment to the role despite its voluntary nature

  • A commitment to start the role from January 2027 

Suitable for:

  • Artists with an interest in aesthetics and politics of maps 

  • Activists with an interest in using maps for social change 

  • Research students with mapping interests and keen to develop non-academic projects 

  • Community organisers with an interest in using maps for community engagement  

Please send an expression of interest that outlines your experience and suitability for the roles to: info@livingmaps.org.uk

About us

Livingmaps Network was established in 2013 as a network of researchers, community activists, artists and others with a common interest in the use of mapping for social change, public engagement, critical debate and creative forms of community campaigning. Livingmaps is a not-for-profit organisation and runs on very tight margins to sustain our activities. Therefore, please note these roles are voluntary. They would suit those looking to develop skills in editorial and publishing work, event curation and management, and network building. In addition, they would benefit those specifically looking to develop their personal and professional links with like-minded mappers from across academic, the arts and practitioner spaces.