Research Associate (RA)

This post is part-time, 14 hours per week and fixed term for 4 months.

This is a Research Associate (RA) post for the funded project, ‘Salon Photography and the Making of the Nation: Malaysia, Singapore, and Burma (Myanmar) in the 1950s and the 1960s’. The lead investigator is Dr Zhuang Wubin, British Academy 2025 Visiting Fellow at CREAM.

Working with Dr. Zhuang, the Research Associate will help to identify relevant source materials from the collection of Burmese-language newspapers and pictorial periodicals primarily at the British Library. The postholder will make photo documentation or digital scans of these materials in a systematic way, and will advise Dr. Zhuang on the selection of materials most pertinent to the research project. Where necessary, the RA will accurately translate the materials into English, interpreting some of the nuances in the Burmese-language sources. The Research Associate will provide administrative assistance to CREAM to organise Dr. Zhuang’s public talk on the project with the Global Photographies Network. It is essential for the Research Associate to have an excellent command of the Burmese language and be able to translate the selected materials into English of a high quality.

For further information about CREAM, Dr. Zhuang’s British Academy Visiting Fellowship, and the Global Photographies Network, please visit our website https://cream.ac.uk

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Closing date: midnight on 27 July 2025 

Interviews are likely to be held on: 1 August 2025 

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