Come and gain professional skills working as part of Royal Holloway’s Cultural Services Team!
The Library is delighted to be able to offer two funded placements to doctoral students:
- Archive Assistant: an exciting role for a current doctoral student to play an important part in making our archival collections accessible to broad audiences, supporting their use in teaching, research and public engagement. The role holder will be introduced to a wide range of archival practice, and receive training in cataloguing, object handling, digitisation and the running of a professional archive service.
- Curatorial Assistant: an exciting role for a current doctoral student to play an important part in making our art collections accessible to broad audiences, supporting their use in teaching, research and public engagement. The placement holder will gain hands on experience of a broad range of curatorial practice, both public facing and behind the scenes. Training will be provided in object handling, cataloguing and the use of collections database systems.
Dates: Ideally from May - for approx. 4 months
Hours: Approx. 14 - 20 hours a week - exact hours to be negotiated with the Library
Hourly pay rate: £14.71
Your funding end date (if applicable) and your submission deadline will be extended to reflect the amount of time you spend on the placement.
The deadline for applications has been extended to Friday 12 May 2023.
For informal enquiries, please contact Anne Marie Purcell for the Archive Assistant placement and Naomi Lebens for the Curatorial Assistant placement.
Further details of the Archive Assistant and Curatorial Assistant placements - and application form