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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="70"><b><big>Research Associate x 3 (Fixed Term) on the Concept Lab, Centre for Digital Knowledge</big></b>
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Dept: CRASSH
Salary: £28,132 - £36,661
Reference: VM03358
Category: Reasearch
Closing date: <u>13 June 2014</u></b>
<font color="#000066"><b>Apply ONLINE: University of Cambridge Website
<font color="#3333ff"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/3930/">http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/3930/</a></font></b></font>
Three full time postdoctoral research associates to work in the Concept Lab within the Centre for Digital Knowledge. Two posts in literary and cultural history and theory in the long early modern period (1600-1800) and one in computational humanities and/or corpus linguistics.
Each RA will report to the project director, Professor Peter de Bolla, and be expected to develop, refine and test the evolving methodology of the Lab. The Research Associates will be required to participate in the weekly work-in-progress meetings of the Lab as well as attend termly workshops that will bring RAs from a number of projects together. These include other projects in the Centre for Digital Knowledge and two EU funded projects that are running simultaneously on the early modern period, one on the idea of 'genius' pre the romantic period and the other on the concept of knowledge in early modern England. In addition the RAs will assist the project director in developing modes of exchange between the Lab in Cambridge and its sister Lab in New York directed by Professor Clifford Siskin. They will also be centrally involved in designing the web output of the project and constructing a repository of the data generated.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 30 September 2017 in the first instance.
To apply online for this vacancy, please click on the 'Apply' button below. This will route you to the University's Web Recruitment System, where you will need to register an account (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
Interviews for these posts are planned for Tuesday 8 July 2014 (TBC). Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by 26 June 2014. If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact the Administrator, Catherine Hurley, on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ch335@cam.ac.uk">ch335@cam.ac.uk</a>.
Please quote reference VM03358 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
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<b>Futher information:
<font color="#3333ff"><a href="http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/3930/file/Concept+Lab+Further+Information.pdf">Concept Lab Futher Information.</a></font></b>
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