Dear All
Given the tight deadline for applications, I'm circulating this outside the
Digest - and apologies for cross-postings.
Best wishes
John
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From: "Andrew Flinn" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:06 PM
Subject: Research Project and Research Assistant Vacancy
Apologies for any cross-posting.
I hope that list members will find news of this new AHRC funded research
project and a postgraduate research assistant position interesting. If
anyone on this list wishes to know more about the project or knows of
someone who might be interested in this position please do not hesitate
to get in touch with me directly. Note the closing date for
applications, 13th August 2007.
Best wishes, Andrew Flinn
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University College London
Research Assistant
Community archives and identities: documenting and sustaining
community heritage.
School of Library, Archive & Information Studies
Applications are invited for the position of Research Assistant in the
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL to work on a
new and important Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded research
project, examining the impacts of community archives and community
heritage projects within Black and Minority Ethnic communities and
investigating the relationship between such initiatives and the formal
archival and heritage sectors.
The Research Assistant will carry out the desk research using library
and internet resources, conduct detailed ethnographic case studies, and
organise / moderate focus group discussions. You will also arrange and
conduct interviews with those involved in community archives, maintain a
project website and be responsible for the initial analysis of data and
the reporting of results. You will be encouraged to participate fully in
the writing up and dissemination of the results of the research as part
of a collaborative team.
For further details of the project please see
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/icarus/community-archives/ The post
is available full-time funded for twenty months (/1 October 2007 - 31
May 2009/) on grade 6 of the UCL scale with a starting salary of
/£22,332/ p.a. plus /£2,572/ p.a. London Allowance.
Applications (e-mail or hard copy) including a letter of application and
CV, plus contact details of three referees, should be sent to Kerstin
Michaels, Departmental Administrator, School of Library, Archive and
Information Studies, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT,
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Interested candidates can also contact Dr Andrew Flinn
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 0207 679 2481) for more
details.
Further information on the post can be found at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/icarus/community-archives/
Interviews will be held during the week beginning /28th August 2007. /
UCL Taking Action for Equality.
The closing date for applications is /Monday, 13th August 2007.
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Dr Andrew Flinn, PhD, MArAd, BA
Programme Director, Archives and Records Management (ARM)
and Records and Archives Management International (RAMI) programmes
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
direct tel: +020 7679 2481
fax: +020 7383 0557
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/SLAIS/andrew-flinn/
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