Research Assistant

Community archives and identities: documenting and sustaining community heritage

By Louise Ray

Applications are invited for the position of Research Assistant in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London to work on a new and important Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded research project, examining the impacts of community archives and community heritage projects within Black and Minority Ethnic communities and investigating the relationship between such initiatives and the formal archival and heritage sectors.

The Research Assistant will carry out the desk research using library and internet resources, conduct detailed ethnographic case studies, and organise / moderate focus group discussions. You will also arrange and conduct interviews with those involved in community archives, maintain a project website and be responsible for the initial analysis of data and the reporting of results. You will be encouraged to participate fully in the writing up and dissemination of the results of the research as part of a collaborative team.

For further details of the project please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/icarus/community-archives/  The post is available full-time funded for twenty months (*1 October 2007 - 31 May 2009*) on grade 6 of the UCL scale with a starting salary of *£22,332* p.a. plus *£2,572* p.a. London Allowance.

Applications (e-mail or hard copy) including a letter of application and CV, plus contact details of three referees, should be sent to Kerstin Michaels, Departmental Administrator, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, k.michaels@ucl.ac.uk.

Interested candidates can also contact Dr Andrew Flinn (a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk  0207 679 2481) for more details.

Further information on the post can be found at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/icarus/community-archives/

Closing date for applications, 13th August 2007.

Interviews will be held during the week beginning 28th August 2007