Postdoctoral Research Associate

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: for 36 months

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The Opportunity: 

The successful candidate will work alongside Dr Jo Wolff as part of the ERC Consolidator project “The Dematerialisation of Science”. The PDRA will conduct original philosophical research on the digitisation of natural history collections and the implications for research and curation.  

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), fixed-term post for 36 months available from August 2026.  

Applications are invited from those with a PhD in Philosophy or a related discipline. Candidates should have expertise in philosophy of science, ideally with a focus of philosophy of the life sciences or natural history.

Informal enquiries may be made to the Dr Jo Wolff, jo.wolff@ed.ac.uk.   

Closing date: 24/04/2026, 11:59PM

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