Deadline: 10-Sep-21
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is pleased to announce the Policy and Engagement Fellowship in Digital Research Infrastructure.
The digital infrastructure will include:
- data services
- a national programme to build digital, data and software skills within the arts and humanities research community.
Funding Information
- The full economic cost of your project can be up to £60,000. AHRC will fund 100% of the full economic cost.
- Your project must start in October 2021 and end by 31 July 2022.
UKRI is looking for
Your work will be part of a programme to enhance national data services for arts and humanities, notably the Archaeology Data Service and Oxford Text Archive.
These new services will form a family of linked and interoperable trusted data repositories (TDRs) for capture and analysis of arts and humanities research data.
The successful fellow will be expected to:
- work closely with the directors of existing data services and the project leads of the three new scoping grants to develop the technical specification and architecture for a federated infrastructure of arts and humanities TDRs
- work closely with colleagues in existing UKRI digital research infrastructures (ARCHER, JASMIN, DIRAC and others) to establish how these capabilities can be enhanced to meet the needs of the arts and humanities research community
- work with UKRI’s Digital Research Infrastructure Committee (UKRI-DRIC) to develop the arts and humanities component of a national digital skills programme
- engage extensively with relevant research communities to identify future collaborative research and development opportunities which iDAH would enable.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply, you must:
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- be resident in the UK
- be employed by, or have a formal affiliation to a university or independent research organisation that is eligible to receive UKRI funding
- hold a PhD or equivalent professional experience in digital humanities, information science, social and cultural analytics or a related field – you must demonstrate in your application the relevance of a qualification in a related field
- have a minimum of seven years’ professional experience, including line-management and collaborative working, within a research-intensive environment
- demonstrate an interest in research policy
- demonstrate experience of planning, managing and delivering complex projects involving multiple stakeholders
- provide a letter of support from the organisation that employs you, or with which you can provide evidence of a formal affiliation
- be available to work a minimum of 0.6 full-time equivalent for up to 10 months between October 2021 and July 2022.
- Your letter of support must:
- recognise that for the duration of the fellowship you will be contracted at least 1.0
- endorse the applicant as ‘future leader’ within their organisation and an ideal candidate to act as a liaison point with the heritage science community.
For more information, visit https://beta.ukri.org/opportunity/policy-and-engagement-fellowship-in-digital-research-infrastructure/