Girton College, Cambridge: Research Fellowship in the Arts

Applications are invited for a Research Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017 and tenable for three years. This year’s competition is in archaeology, classics, history, and biological and social anthropology. The Fellowship is open to graduates of any university and of any age, but it is intended to support those at an early stage of their academic career. Candidates will have normally completed their doctoral thesis prior to and no more than five years before the start of the Fellowship (excluding career breaks).

Potential applicants should note that the standard needed to progress to the later stages of the competition is extremely high. The competition involves the assessment of candidates’ submitted work and an interview.

Candidates will be asked to provide a 600-word summary of current and future research. Long-listed candidates will be invited to submit two pieces of written work, each of no more than 10,000 words, accompanied by a short note explaining how each fits in to their overall research programme. Candidates travelling overseas should note that, should they be invited to interview, the College cannot pay for international travel. We shall, however, cover the costs of travel within the UK and offer overnight accommodation at Girton. Overseas candidates may be interviewed via Skype.

The emoluments of the Fellowship are reviewed annually. The present scale (from 1 August 2015) will rise by two annual increments from £19,083 to £21,391 p.a. for Research Fellows who have not yet completed their PhD and from £20,198 to £22,685 p.a. for post-doctoral Research Fellows. The Fellowship is pensionable under the U.S.S. and emoluments are paid monthly in arrears by bank transfer. The post-holder is required to provide four hours of paid supervision teaching per week during the twenty weeks of the teaching year; in some circumstances, this requirement may be reduced in the first year of Fellowship. Research Fellows may claim research expenses up to a total of £2,500 over the three years.

The closing date for the applications is noon on 29 February, 2016.

Long-listed candidates will be invited to submit work by 21 March, 2016 and interviews for short-listed candidates will be held on 5 May 2016.

Further details of the appointment and the online application process are available from the College website at: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/research.

Please note that the College has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.