To be a responsible for conducting research and fieldwork at major royal, ritual and religious centres of later prehistoric and 1st Millennium AD Ireland, as a part of the Cult Landscapes project in Archaeology and Palaeoecology, School of Natural and Built Environment QUB, and to contribute to the overall research performance of the School and University, carrying out research leading to high-quality publications and project impacts.
This post is a part of the Cult Landscapes Project led by PI Dr Patrick Gleeson and partly funded through a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. This project builds from on-going work at Navan Fort to develop similar programmes of field research and base-line datasets for comparable cult centres in later prehistoric Ireland.
Successful applicants will have responsibilities in independent and collaborative research in the project area, leading fieldwork, planning and excavation at select Cult Landscapes, assisting the PI in publication and database analysis, day to day data management and synthesis, collaborations, and outreach.
About the person:
Candidates should have a Postgraduate degree at PhD Level in Archaeology or closely related area, with cognate expertise. Knowledge of the archaeology of Later Prehistoric, Iron Age and/or early medieval archaeology of North-western Europe is desirable.
To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.
Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.
What we offer:
Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at http://go.qub.ac.uk/reward.
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