Research Assistant - TiNT Project

This position is part time (24.5 hours per week) and has funding up to 30^th September 2024.

The University of Glasgow has been changing the world for more than 560 years, and today we are one of the world’s top 100 universities. We are delighted to have recently been ranked as 81^st in the world in the 2023 QS World University rankings which puts the University within the top 100 institutions worldwide and in the leading 6% of universities which make up the ranking.

Our people have always been at the forefront of our innovation, and our past achievements inspire our current world changers. The University employs over 11,000 staff and is in the midst of an ambitious capital programme.

We currently have an opportunity for a Research Assistant to contribute to the project Titles of the New Testament: A New Approach to Manuscripts and the History of Interpretation (TiNT), working with Dr. Garrick Allen.

The successful candidate will carry out a large-scale study related to the New Testament’s titles, paratexts, and/or manuscripts that addresses one of the project's six critical questions:

1. the diachronic development of paratextual traditions (especially titles in all their forms);
2. the provenance of New Testament works in historical imagination;
3. the relationship between bibliography and canon;
4. the design, codicology, and artistic features of manuscripts;
5. scribal identities and the sociology of textual transmission; and
6. traditions of textual segmentation.

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr. Garrick Allen, Garrick.Allen@glasgow.ac.uk

The anticipated start date for this post is 1^st October 2022.

For more information and to apply online: my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=093888

It is the University of Glasgow’s mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research and teaching environment.

We aim to reflect and celebrate in our workforce the diversity and global reach of our wider community. We also strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation to promoting [inclusion, diversity and] gender equity. Applications are particularly welcome from women, ethnic minorities and other under-represented groups.  In line with the commitments in the University of Glasgow’s Gaelic Language Plan, we also welcome and value skills in Gaelic language for anyone working within areas where key Gaelic services are delivered, in particular within the School of Humanities/Sgoil nan Daonnachdan and the College of Arts.

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