"Archiving the Games: collecting, storing and disseminating the London 2012 knowledge legacy"
The School of School of Sport, Tourism & The Outdoors, in collaboration with The British Library in London, wishes to appoint a suitable candidate for an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) PhD studentship. The project, which is funded by a full-time three-year AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA), seeks to ensure a legacy for materials related to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games that are available at the British Library and other archive sources. The research degree student appointed will investigate the challenges associated with managing and disseminating materials associated with large cultural and sporting events including the practical issues involved in the identification and cataloguing of content distributed across a number of different organisations.
The studentship is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject to satisfactory progress]. The studentship will cover the cost of tuition fees for UK/EU residents and provide a maintenance grant of £13,590 pa with a further allowance from The British Library of £1000 pa. EU applicants may apply but may only be eligible for tuition fee support. Due to funding restrictions this studentship will not be open to international applicants. The successful applicant will start on 1 January 2013.
Applicants should have a very good Upper Second (2:1) class honours degree in a relevant subject (e.g. librarianship, information science, record and archive studies, museum studies, history or sport studies) and preferably have a postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in librarianship, information science, records or archives.
The student will spend approximately 12 months of their three-year studentship working with The British Library’s content and collections in London. The student will be provided with a dedicated workstation, including PC and relevant software, whilst at The British Library. The British Library will also provide a personalised training programme to supplement that provided for research degree students at UCLan.
Requests for an application pack (quoting the reference number RS12-04) should be directed to the Graduate Research School Office. Tel: 01772 895082 or email: [log in to unmask]
Informal enquiries about the project can be made to either Professor John Horne (Central Lancashire) by emailing [log in to unmask] or Jude England (The British Library) [log in to unmask]
Closing Date for Applications: Friday 02 November 2012
Proposed Interview Date: Thursday 06 December 2012
Also see attached advertisement.
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