Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology

Durham University


Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate in Archaeology  (
Job Quantity:
 23002235)
Division of Archaeology
Grade 7:  £37,099 – £44,263 every year
Fastened Time period  Full Time
Contract Length: 3 years
Contracted Hours per Week: 35
Closing Date
: 08-Apr-2024, 6:59:00 PM
Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement: Not Relevant. 

Working at Durham College  

A globally excellent centre of instructing and analysis excellence, a heat and pleasant place to work, a novel and historic setting – Durham is a college like no different.

As one of many UK’s main universities, Durham is an unimaginable place to outline your profession.The College is situated inside a gorgeous historic metropolis, residence to a UNESCO World Heritage Website, and surrounded by beautiful countryside. Our proficient students and researchers from all over the world are tackling world points and making a distinction to folks’s lives.  

We consider that inspiring our folks to do excellent issues at Durham permits Durham folks to do excellent issues on this planet. Being part of Durham is about extra than simply the success of the College, it’s additionally about contributing to the success of town, county and neighborhood.

Our College Technique is constructed on three pillars of analysis, training and wider scholar expertise, but additionally on our eager sense of neighborhood and of inspiring others to realize their potential. 

Our Function and Values

We would like our College to be a spot the place folks could be free to be themselves, it doesn’t matter what their identification or background. Collectively, we have fun distinction, worth each other and are every answerable for creating an inclusive neighborhood that’s respectful and honest for all.

Discover out extra about the advantages of working on the College and what it’s prefer to stay and work within the Durham space on our Why Durham? data web page.   

The Function and Division

The Division

Durham College’s Division of Archaeology is without doubt one of the UK’s greatest Departments of Archaeology with an impressive repute for excellence in instructing, analysis and employability of our college students. We’re repeatedly ranked one of many high three Archaeology departments within the UK (e.g. Analysis Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, The Occasions and Sunday Occasions Good College Information 2024) and one of many high ten globally (World College QS rankings 2021). Our experience covers a broad chronological and geographical span, from the Palaeolithic to the present-day, and from South Asia to the Mediterranean, Europe and the British and Irish Isles, together with a robust suite of analysis tasks within the Center East. For additional data on our present tasks, analysis and instructing see https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/educational/archaeology/ .

The Function

Purposes are invited for a Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate in Archaeology with a selected emphasis on archaeological fieldwork and geodatabases. The Leverhulme Belief-funded mission ‘Megalithic Origins: the emergence of monumentality in Neolithic Western Europe’, led by Dr Marta Díaz-Guardamino, goals to find out the context through which monumentality first appeared in Europe and whether or not it arose independently in every area by means of the appliance of state-of-the-art relationship strategies and contextual evaluation.

The profitable applicant will likely be anticipated to conduct fieldwork, write up fieldwork stories, manage post-excavation analyses, create a geospatial database with OSL and radiocarbon measurements, and liaising with the opposite PDRA who will likely be engaged with relationship and geomorphological points of the mission. The applicant may even creator and collaborate with the remainder of the mission crew within the manufacturing of journal articles, take part in nationwide and worldwide conferences, and create and repeatedly replace the mission web site and social media accounts.

 

Key duties:

  • To know and convey materials of a specialist or extremely technical nature to the crew or group of individuals by means of displays and discussions that results in the presentation of analysis papers in conferences and publications.
  • To organize and ship displays on analysis outputs/actions to audiences which can embrace: analysis sponsors, educational and non-academic audiences.
  • To publish prime quality outputs, together with papers for submission to look reviewed journals and papers for presentation at conferences and workshops beneath the path of the Principal Investigator or Grant-holder.
  • To help with the event of analysis targets and proposals.
  • To conduct particular person and collaborative analysis tasks beneath the path of the Principal Investigator or Grant-holder.
  • To work with the Principal Investigator or Grant-holder and different colleagues within the analysis group, as applicable, to establish areas for analysis, develop new analysis strategies and lengthen the analysis portfolio.
  • To take care of issues which will have an effect on the achievement of analysis targets and deadlines by discussing with the Principal Investigator or Grant-holder and providing artistic or progressive options.
  • To liaise with analysis colleagues and make inner and exterior contacts to develop data and understanding to type relationships for future analysis collaboration.
  • To plan and handle personal analysis exercise, analysis assets in collaboration with others and contribute to the planning of analysis tasks.
  • To ship coaching in analysis strategies/approaches to friends, guests and college students as applicable.
  • To be concerned in scholar supervision, as applicable, and help with the evaluation of the data of scholars.
  • To contribute to fostering a collegial and respectful working surroundings which is inclusive and welcoming and the place everyone seems to be handled pretty with dignity and respect.
  • To interact in wider citizenship to help the division and wider self-discipline.
  • To interact in persevering with skilled growth by participation within the undergraduate or postgraduate instructing programmes or by membership of departmental committees, and so forth. and by attending related coaching and growth programs.   

This submit is fastened time period for 36 months, because the funding is accessible from 01/06/24 for this fastened interval solely; the mission is time restricted and can finish on 31/05/27

The post-holder is employed to work on analysis/a analysis mission which will likely be led by one other colleague. While which means the post-holder is not going to be finishing up unbiased analysis in his/her personal proper, the expectation is that they are going to contribute to the development of the mission, by means of the event of their very own analysis concepts/adaptation and growth of analysis protocols.

Profitable candidates will, ideally, be in submit by 1 June 2024.

Working at Durham 

A aggressive wage is just one a part of the numerous improbable advantages you’ll obtain should you be part of the College. Additionally, you will obtain entry to the next advantages: 

•    30 Days annual go away per yr along with 8 public holidays and 4 customary days per yr – a complete of 42 days per yr.  
•    The College closes between Christmas and New Yr. 
•    We provide a beneficiant pension scheme, As a brand new member of workers you may be robotically enrolled  into the College Superannuation Scheme (USS).
•    Irrespective of the way you journey to work, we’ve you lined.  We’ve parking throughout campus, a cycle to work scheme which lets you purchase a motorcycle and low cost with native bus and practice firms.
•    There’s a real dedication to growing our colleagues professionally and personally.  There’s a complete vary of growth programs, apprenticeships and entry to {qualifications} and routes to develop your profession within the College.  All workers have devoted annual time to focus on their private growth alternatives. 
•    A lot of help for well being and wellbeing together with discounted membership for our cutting-edge sport and gymnasium services and entry to a 24-7 Worker Help Programme.
•    On web site nursery is accessible and kids’s golf equipment in the summertime holidays.
•    Household pleasant insurance policies, together with maternity and adoption go away, that are among the many most beneficiant within the greater training sector (and certain above and past many employers).
•    The chance to participate in workers volunteering actions to make a distinction in the area people
•    Reductions can be found through our advantages portal together with; cash off at supermarkets, excessive avenue retailers, IT merchandise corresponding to Apple, the cinema and days out at varied sights. 
•    A wage sacrifice scheme can be accessible that will help you reap the benefits of tax financial savings on advantages. 
•    If you’re shifting to Durham, we may help with removing prices and we’ve a devoted crew who may help you with the practicalities corresponding to home searching and faculties.  If you happen to want a visa, we cowl most visa prices and supply an curiosity free mortgage scheme to pay for dependant visas.

Durham College is dedicated to equality, variety and inclusion

Equality, variety, and inclusion (EDI) are a key part of the College’s Technique and a central a part of every part we do.  We additionally stay by our Function and Values  and our Employees Code of Conduct.   At Durham we actively work in direction of offering an surroundings the place our workers and college students can examine, work and stay in a neighborhood which is supportive and inclusive. It’s essential to us that each one colleagues undertake actions which are aligned to each our values and dedication to EDI. 

We welcome and encourage functions from those that are at the moment under-represented in our work pressure, together with folks with disabilities and from racially minoritised ethnic teams.

You probably have taken a profession break or intervals of go away which will have impacted on the quantity and recency of your analysis outputs and different actions, corresponding to maternity, adoption or parental go away, it’s possible you’ll want to disclose this in your utility. The choice committee will take this into consideration when evaluating your utility.

The College has been awarded the Incapacity Assured Employer standing. If you’re a candidate with a incapacity, we’re dedicated to making sure honest therapy all through the recruitment course of. We’ll make changes to help the interview course of wherever it’s affordable to take action and, the place profitable, affordable changes will likely be made to help folks inside their function. 

Contact Data 

Division contact for academic-related enquiries 

For casual enquiries please contact Dr Marta Diaz-Guardamino ([email protected]). All enquiries will likely be handled within the strictest confidence.

Contact data for technical difficulties when submitting your utility 

If you happen to encounter technical difficulties when utilizing the web utility type, we desire you to ship enquiries by e mail.  Please ship your identify together with a transient description of the issue you’re experiencing to [email protected]  

Alternatively, it’s possible you’ll name 0191 334 6801 from the UK, or +44 191 334 6801 from exterior the UK. This quantity operates in the course of the hours of 09.00 and 17.00 Monday to Friday, UK time.  We’ll usually reply inside one working day (Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays).  

Find out how to Apply  

To progress to the evaluation stage, candidates should proof every of the important standards required for the function within the individual specification beneath. Will probably be on the discretion of the recruiting panel as to whether or not they may even contemplate any fascinating standards, however we might urge candidates to supply proof for all standards.  

Whereas some standards will likely be thought-about on the shortlisting stage, different standards could also be thought-about later within the evaluation course of, corresponding to questions at interview.  

Submitting your utility 

We desire to obtain functions on-line.   We’ll replace you about your utility at varied factors all through the choice course of, through automated emails from our e-recruitment system. Please examine your spam/junk folder periodically to be sure to haven’t missed any of our updates.

What to Submit 

All candidates are requested to submit: 

  • a CV and canopy letter which particulars your expertise, expertise, and achievements in assembly (or the potential to fulfill) the factors set out beneath.
  • One current publication.

Subsequent Steps 

Brief-listed candidates will likely be invited to the College, to be interviewed in-person and may have the chance to fulfill key members of the Division of Archaeology.  The evaluation for the submit will usually embrace a presentation to workers and college students within the Division adopted by an interview and we anticipate that the assessments and interviews will happen over two days in late April 2024.

Within the occasion that you’re unable to attend in individual on the date provided, it is probably not doable to give you an interview on an alternate date. 

Please be aware that in submitting your utility you agree that Durham College will likely be processing your information. We might ask you to think about the related College Privateness Assertion https://www.durham.ac.uk/about-us/governance/information-governance/privacy-notices/privacy-notices/job-applicants/ which supplies data on the collation, storing and use of information.   

When appointing to this function the College should be certain that it meets any relevant immigration necessities, together with wage thresholds that are relevant to some visas.


Individual Specification

Important Standards:

{Qualifications}

  • A superb first diploma in Archaeology or a associated topic.
  • A PhD (full or near submission) in Archaeology or a associated topic.
  • Expertise

  • Expertise in conducting prime quality educational analysis.
  • Demonstrable capacity to jot down materials of a top quality commensurate with publication in highly-ranked journals.
  • Demonstrable capacity to current analysis papers at conferences and talk advanced data to specialists and throughout the wider educational neighborhood.
  • Expertise in directing archaeological fieldwork, writing up fieldwork stories, organizing post-excavation analyses, creating geospatial databases. 
  • Expertise

  • Demonstrable capacity to work cooperatively as a part of a crew, together with collaborating in analysis conferences.
  • Potential to work independently on personal initiative and to strict deadlines.
  • Wonderful interpersonal and communication expertise, together with the power to work with non-English talking researchers.
  • Fascinating Standards

    Expertise

  • Robust publication report in peer-reviewed journals, commensurate with stage of profession.
  • Expertise in 3D modelling and Bayesian modelling. 
  • Expertise

  • Demonstrable capacity to plan and handle unbiased analysis. 
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