Postdoctoral Research Assistant: Enlightenment Architectures
An exciting opportunity has arisen at the British Museum for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to contribute to the Leverhulme Trust funded research project Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections under the Principal Investigator, Kim Sloan and Co-Investigator Julianne Nyhan (UCL).Beginning ideally in May 2017, as part of this project, the post-holder will work alongside another Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the process of digitally encoding externally sourced transcriptions of six of Sir Hans Sloane’s manuscript catalogues and will assist with identifying information entities within them which will inform research. You will also participate in the production of the project’s peer-reviewed research publications, planned to be a minimum of four co-authored interdisciplinary articles which will be published by the end of the project.
Qualifications:
- completed a PhD, or equivalent
- proficient in Latin and/or at least one modern language related to the project
- experience of research/teaching/curatorial work
- strong knowledge of electronic text, particularly digital cultural heritage resources for the 17th and 18th centuries
- be able to work closely and diplomatically with research partners and museum colleagues
- confident in speaking publicly about research to scholarly and wider audiences
- excellent organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines
- have your own academic publication in preparation.
If you are a positive individual, passionate about the Museum and would like to know more about this exciting opportunity, please visit the position posting and follow the “Apply now” link.
Closing date: 13 March 2017, Midday