This opportunity was circulated on a musicology mailing list. Some of our students may be considering PhDs, and maybe this might be of interest. Sadly, we got notice of it rather close to the deadline (19th February), so you would need to be quick off the mark!
British Library PhD Research Placements: Call for
Applications
Our PhD research placement scheme is intended to provide
opportunities for PhD students to apply and enhance research, communications
and analytical skills and expertise outside of Higher Education as part of
their wider research training and professional development.
A PhD research placement at the British Library provides
the chance to experience research in a different environment to that of a
university, to engage with a range of research users and audiences, to gain
insights into different potential postdoctoral career paths, and to make a
tangible contribution to the purposes and programmes of a national library and
major cultural organisation.
Current opportunities
A broad range of research placement opportunities have
been identified by the Library for 2018-19 (click on the links below to view
placement project profiles)
• Afrikaans literature
• Investigating Anne McLaren’s Notebooks • Art, Poetry
and Politics – Contemporary British Artists’ Books • Exploring music archives
of 20th-century British composers • Unlocking Charles I’s Vision of Rome •
Exploring our ‘Endangered Archives’ Projects in Africa • First World War French
posters • Examining the role of internal engagement and communications in the
British Library • Visualising a future for Midland Road and Euston Road • North
American Migrant Narratives • Playbills in context: linked open data for
historical playbills • Policy development with the British Library • Political
cartoons in India in the 1930s and 1940s • Virus checking in long-term digital
collection management and digital preservation • William Blake at the British
Library • Telling the Stories of the Treasures of the British Library
The application deadline is 4pm on 19 February 2018
Eligibility
• Open to all PhD students, as long as they have the
support of their PhD supervisor and their Graduate Tutor (or equivalent)
• International students are eligible if they have the
right to study in the UK
Funding
The British Library PhD research placement scheme has
been developed in consultation with UK Research Funders, universities and
Doctoral Training Partnerships.
The research placements offered through the scheme are
opportunities for current PhD students to apply and enhance research skills and
expertise outside of Higher Education as part of their wider research training
and professional development. They are training and development opportunities
to be undertaken within this specific context – and are therefore different to
the paid internships or other fixed-term posts that the Library may
occasionally make available. See the Application Guidelines for further details
and background.
Please note that – unlike for an internship or a
fixed-term post – the British Library is unable to provide stipends or payment
to PhD placement students. It is therefore essential that applicants to the
placement scheme obtain the support of their PhD supervisor and Graduate Tutor
(or someone in an equivalent senior academic management role) in advance and
that, as part of their process, they consult their HEI to ascertain what
funding is available to support them.
After the interview stage, students who have been offered
a placement and are not able to cover the costs through funding from their
university or other sources may apply to the Library’s PhD Placement Travel
Fund to request help to cover day-to-day commuting expenses or one-off
relocation travel costs only. Please note that this Fund is limited and the
success of an application to it cannot be guaranteed.
To support self-funded and part-time students, most
placements can be done on a part-time basis, with some remote working also
sometimes possible – see the individual projects for details.
Any questions?
Contact Research.Development@bl.uk
for all queries or to be added to our placement scheme mailing list.
