Imagining Futures Digital Repository Associate/Fellow

This full time, UKRI funded post is available from 1 May 2023 until 30 April 2024.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

Overseas appointments may also be considered.

The post

You will support the work of Prof. Elena Isayev in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), supporting the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Imagining Futures Through Un/Archived Pasts (IF) project, funded by UKRI/ Arts and Humanities Research Council.

We seek to recruit a Digital Repository Associate/Fellow to be part of Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts – an international project which addresses the power of who decides whose history gets to be remembered into the future and how? Focusing on questions of authorship and custodianship, it explores the formation and erasure of narratives, heritage and archives (tangible and intangible) in contexts of rupture, post-conflict, reconstruction and displacement. This project is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and forms part of the Network + initiative of the Global Challenges Research Fun.

You will work with IF international project partners and Lab leaders to determine and implement a tailored strategy for data ingestion and upload to a digital repository. You will seek out, propose, set up, develop and manage the most appropriate platform package for the IF digital repository and all aspects of digital asset ingest and publication, ensuring best practice, which includes managing rights and ethics, and developing new functions and activities in relation to the repository. The role will include building on previous scoping research and working with the Project Leader to deliver an online training programme in the curation and reliable transfer of project data, adhering to and developing best practises in digital humanities. You will be the point of contact for any repository and data related concerns as well as other IT issues.

Please ensure you read the Job Descriptions and Person Specifications for full details of this role.

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 150 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 and QS World University Ranking 2022).  

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

With over 27,000 students and 6,400 staff from 180 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. Reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Benefits

Including:

• 41 days leave 
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms  and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 wks full pay), paternity leave (up to six wks full pay) and a new Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Elena Isayev e.isayev@exeter.ac.uk

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