'Connecting Histories, Connecting Heritage: Early Modern Cities and Their Afterlives’ (CHCH), is a research project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) as part of its Future Leaders Fellowship scheme and led by Dr Christina M. Anderson (PI). CHCH will redefine transnational urban heritage through investigating how the materiality of early modern cities was created through the exchanges happening in all the places to which they were connected. It will also offer a framework for seeing ourselves as global citizens through the historical connections to other places embedded in the urban landscapes of the cities we call ‘home’. A range of public-facing digital outputs, including a database of archival documents, interactive maps and a virtual reality sequence, will be created with 16th-century Antwerp as the principal case study.

The Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Sr PRF) will be responsible for designing and creating, in collaboration with the PI and the project’s Research Software Engineer (RSE), the database that will support the project’s digital outputs. They will also carry out some archival research and work with the project team to populate the database and produce the outputs from the database and the project more generally. The successful candidate will already have postdoctoral experience of working with digital mapping and relational databases.

For further information and to apply, please follow this link:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=29902&jobTitle=Senior+Postdoctoral+Research+Fellow+with+Digital+Database%2FMap+Design+Skills+for+Historical+Research