Job opportunity at Pitt Rivers Museum: Research Fellow

Research Fellow
Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road, Oxford
Grade 7: £32,236 - £39,609 p.a.
The Museum is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow as part of our strategic vision to be a world-leading centre for the cross-disciplinary study of visual and material culture. The Research Fellow will join an active and engaged group of leading researchers within the Museum and contribute to it with their own cutting-edge work. The Fellow will carry out and publish independent research within the general fields of visual, material and museum anthropology and related themes that interconnect with the Museum’s collections and histories. The post holder will also help coordinate a new initiative to expand University teaching with the Museum’s collections. The Fellow will be fully supported in accessing collections for research purposes and in the preparation of research applications and also engage with the Museum’s Public Engagement with Research activities. Applicants should prepare a statement on their current and future research plans (up to 500 words) and also send examples of written work (published or unpublished) totalling no more than 10,000 words. Full deails of essential and desirable requirements are available on the Oxford University website. The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Thursday 7 Febraury 2019. Important notice regarding submitting your application - system availability in January 2019

Headley Fellowships with Art Fund

A programme designed to provide experienced curators with the time and resources to carry out research projects deepening specialist knowledge and expertise around their collections.  It  aims to give curators the time and resource to work with focused areas of their collections, deepening collections expertise within regional museums and sharing specialist knowledge across the sector. Deadline for applications is 15 October 2018.

More details on the ArtFund website. 

SACKLER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ON THE HISTORY OF CONSERVATION AT THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM

WORCESTER COLLEGE AND THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 

Salary £28,413 p.a. plus £5,000 housing allowance p.a. 

Applications are invited for a three year Sackler Research Fellowship on the history of Conservation at the Ashmolean Museum, in association with Worcester College, Oxford. Based in the Ashmolean's Conservation Department in Oxford, the postholder will research the preservation history of the museum. 

As the country’s oldest public museum, founded in 1683, the Ashmolean is in an exceptional position to follow the history of conservation and restoration. The department holds formal conservation records from cards and notebooks that date back to the middle of the last century along with other sources. The research will concentrate on a history of conservation and restoration through the records and practices, collections and staff, building on existing work carried out in the department and on display in the Restoring the Past Gallery. 

The successful candidate will have a proven ability to carry out research in an area related to the history of collections or conservation, a relevant post-graduate degree, either completed or due to be completed by October 2017, and a genuine interest in learning about conservation ethics and preservation methodologies. There may be opportunities for candidates with a suitable qualification in conservation to maintain practical skills during their tenure if they wish, so long as this enhances the research focus of the Sackler Research Fellowship. 

This award is tenable for three years, at a salary of £28,413 plus a housing allowance of £5,000, commencing on 1 October 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. For full details of the post and the application process, please visit www.worc.ox.ac.uk/jobs. Closing date for applications is 10am on Thursday 31 August 2017 

Worcester College has recently adopted a diversity strategy and is actively seeking to increase the proportion of Fellows on Governing Body who are women and/or of BME origin 

Bard Graduate Center/AMNH Fellowship in Museum Anthropology

Bard Graduate Centre and the American Museum of Natural History invite applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship jointly appointed at Bard Graduate Centre and in the Anthropology Division at the Richard Gilder Graduate School of the American Museum of Natural History. The fellow’s project focuses on a specific area of material culture: Southeast Asian textiles, including textiles from Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Brunei, East Timor, Philippines. 

Past areas of specialization have included the indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest, Oceania, South American textiles, and Australian Aboriginal cultures. The project makes use of the AMNH collection. A PhD in Anthropology or a related field is required.

The fellow teaches one graduate course each year and mounts an innovative small exhibition, ideally drawing on the collections of the AMNH, in Bard Graduate Centre’s Focus Gallery. A major purpose of the Bard Graduate Centre-AMNH Fellowship is to promote mutual scholarly interest and interaction among our fellows, faculty, and students, and the AMNH academic community.

To apply, please submit the following materials via email as a single PDF to fellowships@bgc.bard.edu: cover letter, curriculum vitae, sample publication, and a list of three references. Candidates will be judged primarily on their research abilities, experience, and on the merits and scope of the proposed research. The Fellow will have office space and be expected to participate fully in the intellectual life of both institutions. Salary is $35,000 per year. Housing is available, as is a small research/travel fund while the Fellow is in residence. The deadline to submit the application is November 1, 2015 and the position commences in the fall of 2016.

Bard Graduate Centre is an AA/EOE employer. Please direct any questions AND YOUR APPLICATION to fellowships@bgc.bard.edu and see our Frequently Asked Questions page. Please add “AMNH Fellowship” to the subject line when you submit your application.

 

 

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

AHRC CDA studentship on 'The diplomatic family at home and abroad'

School of History, Queen Mary, University of London with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Applications are invited for the first of two PhD studentships on:

'Representing and belonging: social and cultural change in the British diplomatic service since 1945.' 

The first studentship is on 'The diplomatic family at home and abroad' and will start in October 2013. It will be supervised by Dr Helen McCarthy (School of History, QMUL), Professor Amanda Vickery (School of History, QMUL) and Professor Patrick Salmon (Foreign and Commonwealth Office). Further details are available here.

The deadline for applications is 8 July.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

Applications are invited for an AHRC CDA studentship commencing autumn 2013 

on The Legacies of the Repatriation of Human Remains

Supervised by Dr Samuel Alberti, Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr Beth Greenhough, Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, and Professor Catherine Nash, Geography, Queen Mary, University of London.

This three-year doctoral studentship aims to understand the processes and legacies of the repatriation of human remains for museums and claimant communities. Working closely with the Hunterian Museum and combining archival work, ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews, the project will contribute to museum policy, public debate and academic scholarship concerned with the extraction, use, meaning and global circulation of human remains.

The award pays fees and an annual maintenance grant (currently £15,726 per year), with the Royal College of Surgeons contributing £1000 to the student’s research expenses. The usual AHRC eligibility rules apply to these studentships, including having an appropriate masters degree by October 2013 and AHRC’s residential requirements.

The closing date is 28th June 2013. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 16th July 2013. See here for further details and how to apply. Informal inquiries should be made to Dr Samuel Alberti or to Prof. Catherine Nash

Museum of English Rural Life Fellowship Scheme

Applications are now being invited for the Gwyn E. Jones MERL Fellowship scheme for 2013-14, tenable for up to twelve months, to support research in subject areas associated with the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) at the University of Reading. The closing date is 10 May 2013.

Successful proposals attract a stipend of up to £10,000 for a maximum period of twelve months. Applications for shorter periods of research are welcome but would attract a commensurately smaller stipend. The funding can be used to offset teaching and administration costs, and other research-related expenses. Fellows are encouraged to participate in the academic programmes of the Museum.

For further details of the scheme and information about how to apply see the MERL website or contact Ollie Douglas.

Photographs, museums and archaeology: AHRC CDA PhD Studentship

Alfred Maudslay, Photography and the Mimetic Technologies of Archaeology: A Study in Method, Process and Effect

Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester/ British Museum, London

STARTING JANUARY 2013

CLOSING DATE: September 28th 2012
Interview date:  week beginning October 15 2012
 
An AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship covering stipend and tuition fee costs is offered within the Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities in collaboration with the British Museum.

The project addresses the role of photography and its relationship with other mimetic technologies in field archaeology and the subsequent institutional life of the images in the construction of ‘heritage’. The project also explores the methodological implications for a ‘photographic history’ approach to collections and institutions.

The project will focus on the 1513 magnificent late nineteenth century photographs made of Maya archaeology by Alfred Maudslay, their relationship with other kinds of recording and their subsequent ‘life’ in the Museum. The student will have scope, within the project parameters, to develop an emphasis in photographic history, collections history, history of science, or museum practice in archaeological heritage.

The PhD studentship will be based at PHRC which undertakes leading innovative research on photography and its practices from the early nineteenth century to the present day, and over a wide range of social and cultural processes. It has a dynamic and growing research community and an excellent research library for photographic history. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the development of this community and that at the British Museum.

Supervision will be available from Professor Elizabeth Edwards (DMU) and key members of British Museum staff who have active interests in photography, history, archaeology and collections history.  The studentship will be based at DMU, Leicester, with extended London-based periods of study at the British Museum and related archives

Candidates might come from a range of possible disciplines: art history, history of photography, museum and heritage studies, science and technology studies, material culture studies, archaeology, visual anthropology, or visual culture studies. A knowledge of Meso-American archaeology is not a requirement.

For a more detailed description of the PHRC please visit our web site or contact Professor Edwards (eedwards@dmu.ac.uk) who will be happy to discuss the studentship further.

Applications are invited from UK or eligible EU/overseas students  (please check http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf Annex A for residency requirements) with a good first degree (First, 2:1 or equivalent) and MA in a relevant subject. Applications are welcome from MAs completing 2012. The CDA scholarship is available for three years full-time study starting January 2013, providing a bursary for both maintenance  (currently c. £14,500) and fees.

To receive an application pack, please contact the Faculty Research Office via email at ADHresearch&innovation@dmu.ac.uk. Completed applications should be returned together with a full CV, two supporting references, a statement explaining your interest in the project, and an example of your written work of c.3000 words.

Please quote ref: AHRC/CDA/PHRC12/2

MERL Research Fellowship

Applications are now being invited for the Gwyn E. Jones MERL Fellowship scheme for 2012-13, tenable for up to twelve months, to support research in subject areas associated with the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) at the University of Reading. The closing date is 11 May 2012.

Successful proposals attract a stipend of up to £10,000 for a maximum period of twelve months. Applications for shorter periods of research are welcome but would attract a commensurately smaller stipend. The funding can be used to offset teaching and administration costs, and other research-related expenses. Fellows are encouraged to participate in the academic programmes of the Museum.

For further details of the scheme and information about how to apply please click on the following link: www.reading.ac.uk/merl/research/merl_fellowships.aspx.

Funded Postgraduate Opportunity: University of St Andrews

Professional Preparation Masters Degree - MLitt Museum and Gallery Studies

We invite applications for an AHRC-funded place on the full-time postgraduate Museum and Gallery Studies course starting in September 2012. 

Professional Preparation Master’s awards provide funding for Master’s or Postgraduate Diploma courses that focus on developing high level skills and competencies for professional practice in a field relevant to the content of the course.

St Andrews is Scotland’s only centre for Museum and Gallery Studies and enjoys an international reputation for its teaching and research. The course offers a wide-ranging professional training, and a high percentage of graduates have gone straight into careers in museums, art galleries, historic houses and other heritage organisations. Modules on the Theory and Practice of Museums are complemented by practical activities, undertaken in local and regional museums. The teaching takes place in the University’s museum (MUSA) which can be used as a ‘laboratory’ for experimentation in museum interpretation and education.  The vocational relevance of the programme is strengthened by links with the University’s museum staff and with outside museum professionals who contribute to the teaching.

Although we are based in the School of Art History we welcome applications from all disciplines.  We are looking for well-qualified candidates with at least a good 2:1 degree. 

To apply for an AHRC grant you need to:
* Complete a University of St Andrews on-line application form and, where the form asks how you intend to fund your studies, state that you want to be considered for an AHRC award.
* Add a separate Supporting Statement document saying how the course will contribute to your long-term career development.

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2012

To check your eligibility, go to the AHRC website at:
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf

For further details of the course visit our website at:
http://www-ah.st-andrews.ac.uk/mgstud/

For further enquiries contact:  pgarthist@st-andrews.ac.uk

James Green Scholarship, Sussex

The James Henry Green PhD scholarship is available to
students wishing to pursue doctoral research within the Department of Art
History at the University of Sussex. The three-year scholarship covers
University tuition fees* and an annual book award of £1000.

Deadline 27 April 2012

The scholarship is offered by the James Henry Green Charitable Trust through the James Green Centre for World Art at Royal Pavilion & Museums (RP&M), Brighton & Hove. The purpose of the award is to build and share knowledge about RP&M’s rich holdings of material and visual culture from Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Americas. For this reason the main requirement of the award is that the proposed doctoral research project considers some aspect of the World Art collection. Other requirements include a yearly report and, at some point during the scholarship, a public outcome for staff and visitors to Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (for example a talk, display or web article about the research project). The scholarship-holder is also expected to make a presentation on the subject of their doctoral research to the Trustees of the James Henry Green Charitable Trust at one of their annual general meetings during their tenure of the scholarship.

The World Art collection

The World Art collection is a Designated** collection of over 12,000 objects and images from Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Americas. The collection encompasses objects in a wide range of media and represents many different geographies and time periods; from Peruvian archaeological textiles to late 20th-century barbers’ signboards from Kenya. Many items in the collection were sold or donated by people associated with Britain’s former colonies and so these areas are particularly well represented. West Africa and South and South East Asia, for example, are areas of strength but the collection also includes important and rare material from southern Africa, China, North America and the Pacific.

Possible approaches

While research proposals which take a traditional object-based approach to the collection will be welcomed, work which situates the material in wider contexts is also encouraged. This might include researchwhich addresses:

• the complex networks of dealers, salerooms and collectors, which, particularly in the late 19th century, enabledmuseums such as that at Brighton to accumulate collections of ‘non-western’ material
• changing modes for the display and interpretation of ‘non-western’ material culture
• the role of particular individuals in forming collections and displays
• the role of historic collections in the context of contemporary cultural politics
• how collections material functioned in its ‘original’ context(s), for example items made for courtly or religious use
• issues of post-colonialism
• issues around gender or class and collecting

Further information

The Keeper and Curator of World Art are happy to facilitate access to collections and collections information for those individuals looking to develop a research proposal. Selection of the scholarship-holder will be made by the Department of Art History at the University of Sussex so enquiries regarding application should be made there.

Helen Mears, Keeper of World Art

t: 01273 292863

e: helen.mears@brighton-hove.gov.uk

History of Art University of Sussex contact

Fiona Allan, Research and Enterprise Coordinator

t: 01273 876612

e: f.m.allan@sussex.ac.uk

Dr Geoff Quilley, Senior Lecturer in Art History

t: 01273 876627

e: g.quilley@sussex.ac.uk

* International students are welcome to apply for the
scholarship but we regret that we can only pay the equivalent of ‘home’ student
tuition fees.

** The Designation scheme was launched in 1997 by
Resource (then Museum, Libraries & Archives Council, now Arts Council
England) to identify and celebrate the pre-eminent collections of national and
international importance held in England's non-national museums.

Information about applying for the scholarship can be downloaded from here:

The James Henry Green History of Art PhD Scholarship [DOC 62.00KB]

Museum Training Fellowships: University of East Anglia

The School of World Art Studies and Museology at UEA is pleased to announce 4 Museum Training Fellowships, for study on our MA Museum Studies degree from September 2012. The fellowships cover fees (at the home student rate) and a bursary.

The closing date for applications is 1 March 2012.

Interviews for the Fellowships will be held in the last week of March. Fellows become members of a department in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVA), where they contribute to the team’s day-to-day work. One Fellowship is available in each of the following areas, assigned as part of the interview and selection process:

•            Curatorial

•            Collections Management

•            Education

•            Marketing/Public Services

The School of World Art Studies and Museology runs one of the longest-established programmes in Museum Studies in the UK – and the only one based inside an art gallery, the Norman Foster-designed Sainsbury Centre, which is home to a modernist collection of ethnographic, ancient, and 20th century European art. The School and University are consistently ranked in the top 10 in the UK for student satisfaction, and in the latest RAE, the School was rated first for internationally-recognised work, and joint third overall. A maximum limit of 10 students per year means that the MA in Museum Studies is student-centred and offers intensive preparation for a career in the museum profession or for a higher research degree in museum studies.

This MA combines the cutting-edge research and curatorial experience of academic staff in the School with the professional resources and experience of the SCVA. It also draws on museum resources in London and in the region, notably the Norfolk Museums Service, and incorporates a number of museum visits and expert speakers.

Visit our website for further details on funding, at http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/postgraduatescholarships/fundingtaught

Follow the ‘Courses’ link for information about the MA degree and for online application materials. Please indicate on your application form that you wish to be considered for a Museum Training Fellowship; all UK, EU, and international students are eligible for this award. Contact the Postgraduate Admissions Director, Dr Christina Riggs, at c.riggs@uea.ac.uk if you have questions about the course or the application procedure.