Research Assistant
Swansea University – College of Arts & Humanities
Location: Swansea
Salary: £27,864 per annum (pro rata if part time), together with USS pension benefits if required.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Closes: 31 March, 2015
We are looking to appoint a Research Assistant to work on the AHRC funded project ‘Women negotiating the boundaries of justice: Britain and Ireland, c.1100-c.1750’. The specific responsibility of the Research Assistant will be to study women and the law in medieval England, c.1100-c.1300. You will be expected to consider the avenues for legal redress open to women from different status groups and from both the Christian and Jewish communities.
This is a three-year appointment based at Swansea University. The post-holder will join a team of experienced researchers from the universities of Swansea, Cardiff and Glasgow with the aim of producing a comparative study of women’s participation in the legal processes of medieval and early modern England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
The successful candidate will hold a postgraduate Degree Medieval History (or equivalent) and have the requisite language and palaeographic skills to work with records produced in the stated period. The Research Assistant should have strong planning and research skills and expect to be involved in all aspects of data collection, analysis, and dissemination through high quality publications, conferences and workshops. The post holder will be expected to work closely with the Principal Investigator but also to demonstrate initiative.
Informal enquiries are welcome and should be directed to Dr Deborah Youngs, at d.youngs@swansea.ac.uk.
