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Research Associate in Nineteenth-Century Science Periodicals
School of English, University of Leicester
Salary Grade 7 - £31,331 to £36,298 per annum
Following the award of a major AHRC ‘Science in Culture’ Research Grant, the School of English invites applications for the post of Research Associate on the project ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’. The post will form part of a larger team working on ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’, in conjunction with colleagues based at the University of Oxford, the Natural History Museum, the Royal Society and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons.
This post will be based both at Leicester, working with Dr Gowan Dawson, and in London, at the Natural History Museum, with support from Julie Harvey, Head of the Centre for Arts and Humanities, and Paul Cooper, Special Collections Librarian. The focus of this post will be on nineteenth-century natural history journals, but also with a wider remit across scientific journals of the period.
The post is fixed term for 3.5 years, and will start on 1 March 2014. Applicants must have a PhD or DPhil in a relevant area, possess strong communication and organisation skills and be willing to participate in the running of the project.
The closing date for this post is midnight on 5th December 2013. Further details can be found by searching at http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/jobs/opportunities/jobsearch
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