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VARI Early Career Research Fellow, Digital Collections: Informatics Research

Reference: OCT20170942
Expiry date: 2017-10-30 09:30:00.000
Location: South Kensington
Salary: £32,925 Pro Rata
Benefits: Group Personal Pension, Life Assurance Scheme, and other great benefits
Attachments: VARIEarlyCareerResearchFellow-DigitalCollectionsInformaticsResearch-contentdataobjectproject.pdf

Part-time 2 days per week
Fixed term contract: 20 November 2017 - 30 October 2020

The V&A Research Institute (VARI) is a five-year programme of projects and partnerships supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It takes the V&A's pioneering research culture into a new phase that allows the Museum to experiment with new ways of storing, displaying and studying its collections.

We are seeking a part-time 2 days per week Early Career Research Fellows to work on ‘Content/Data/Object’, a three year Victoria & Albert Museum Research Institute (VARI) project which will investigate the conceptual, representational, practical,  and policy issues arising in the description, cataloguing and collection care of digital artworks.  The project is rooted in the V&A’s diverse digital collections and its collections information structures, and will focus on these as a springboard to engage with the creative, professional, academic and public communities in investigating and defining the status of heritage digital collections.

The postholder(s) will be physically based in the Research Department/VARI, and will lead communication across a range of internal V&A departments, such as Collections, Exhibitions, Learning and Digital Media, as well as working closely with the community of artists, academics, museum professionals, information scientists, policy organisations and other key stakeholders.  The postholder(s) will also work closely with project staff of VARI, particularly the VARI Director and Deputy Director, in advancing VARI’s overall goals and development.

Interviews: Friday 10 November