An exciting opportunity has arisen at the British Museum for two Postdoctoral Research Assistants 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 in January 2017, as part of this project, the post-holders will assist with 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.
The successful candidates will have completed a PhD, or equivalent, and will be proficient in Latin and/or at least one modern language related to the project. With experience of research/teaching/curatorial work, you will have strong knowledge of electronic text, particularly digital cultural heritage resources for the 17th and 18th centuries.
As an excellent team player, you will be able to work closely and diplomatically with research partners and museum colleagues and will be confident in speaking publicly about research to scholarly and wider audiences. You will have excellent organisation skills, will work to meet set deadlines and will have your own academic publication in preparation.
Salary: £28,460 per annum pro-rata
Contract: Fixed Term: 30 months in duration from January 2017 (Full time)
DEADLINE: Monday 31 October 2016 12pm Noon
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