Post-Doctoral Research Associate @ University of Cambridge: The Gersum Project – Call For Applications

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (Faculty of English)
The University of Cambridge.

The Faculty is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ‘Gersum Project: the Scandinavian Influence on English Vocabulary’, funded by the AHRC. The post holder will be based in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge from 1 January 2016, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Research Associate’s main role will be to produce the project’s digital catalogue of words derived from Old Norse in nine late Middle English alliterative poems, and to contribute to accompanying elements of the website (especially the bibliography and the corpus of electronic texts).

The post-holder should have a PhD in the study of early English (Old and/or Middle) or Old Norse, excellent organisational skills and the proven ability to work to deadlines without close supervision. Excellent written and oral communication skills and a close familiarity with common IT packages including MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint are also essential, as is the ability to work as a team.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.

Closing date: 9 October 2015.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/8035/