Wasafiri Editorial Placement

An opportunity is available for a CHASE-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement. The internship will provide invaluable experience within an internationally-recognised academic and literary journal in preparation for a career within academia, publishing, or the arts sector.

Application deadline: 11.59pm GMT, 21 March, 2025  

Interviews: Week commencing 31 March, 2025

Start date: 28 April, 2025 preferred

Hours: Part-time (2.5 days per week) for one year (shorter placements will also be considered)

Location: In-person, remote, and hybrid working options. Our offices are located at Queen Mary University of London, Mile End campus.

The CHASE-funded researcher undertaking a placement via CHASE will receive an extension to their stipend equivalent to the duration of their placement. They can also apply for additional funding (for example, travel and accommodation expenses) to support them undertaking the placement.

The placement in brief

A chance to build your own network and gain experience behind the scenes at an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation with a forty-year history of radical publishing and curriculum change, this placement combines editorial support for our quarterly magazine and managing our submissions portal. There are also many opportunities for experience in areas of your own interest, which might include events organisation, design, and more. This role is ideal for a motivated and curious candidate with excellent critical reading skills and a strong desire to work in a small team.

The magazine

Wasafiri is the UK’s leading magazine of international contemporary writing. Launched in 1984 to create a vibrant publication space for authors and critics from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, and their diasporas, Wasafiri has spread its reach over the last forty years to encompass the works of writers worldwide, championing underrepresented writers and translators from all backgrounds. Having pioneered a shift in the literary, cultural, and critical landscape, the magazine draws widely across modern culture and the arts, publishing a lively and informed mix of fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, articles, art, and reviews.

The placement in detail

Wasafiri has been successfully working with CHASE placement students since 2018. The placement is made up of two halves: assisting with the editorial production of our quarterly magazine and managing our submissions system, including peer review. Activities include:

• Managing our submissions portal, including reading submissions and assigning peer reviewers, in coordination with the Deputy Editor, allowing the student to discover and influence emerging scholarship and promote innovative creative and critical work.

• Contributing to editorial strategy for the print magazine and website content by attending editorial and Associate Editor meetings, as well as wider organisational strategy, including events and special projects.

• Managing relationships with contributors and peer reviewers, learning to communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders, and growing a personal network of arts practitioners and researchers.

• Supporting the Reviews Editor, communicating with publicists, publishers, and reviewers as required.

As well as providing an introduction and foundation to working in the arts beyond academia, Wasafiri placements offer students the skills necessary for the completion of their own research, including time management, editing, and communication, as well as developing academic networks and gaining a better understanding of the journal publishing process.

Only CHASE-funded researchers at CHASE institutions can apply. 

Successful candidates will report to Wasafiri’s Deputy Editor, Vamika Sinha. For more information, please email: v.sinha@qmul.ac.uk

Applications should consist of a cover letter of up to a page and a CV, and should be sent to wasafiri-manager@qmul.ac.uk by 11.59pm GMT, 21 March, 2025. Interviews will be conducted in the week commencing 31 March 2025.

Landecker Digital Memory Lab - Research Assistant Placement

Start date: from May 2025

Duration: 6 months full-time or 3-4 days a week for equivalent period

Location: University of Sussex with hybrid working. Lab members and associates are expected to work on campus at least 2 days per week

Application deadline: 18th April 2025

Background

The Landecker Digital Memory Lab is dedicated to ensuring the sustainability of Holocaust memory in the digital age. As well as producing world-leading research, the Lab prioritises high impact, public engagement, and knowledge exchange activities. Our core asset in development is a living database-archive which will host walkthroughs of global digital Holocaust memory projects (e.g., VR, AR, computer games, and AI-driven projects) accompanied by interviews with the broad range of actors involved in their development and dissemination, from technical and creative teams through to museum-based curators, archivists and educators. To-date we have mapped more than 380 projects and have recorded more than 120 hours of footage.

Complementing this new platform (due to launch in January 2025), we are launching a new digital publishing platform ‘Digital Memory Dialogues’ in summer 2025 – a space for cross-sector and interdisciplinary dialogue. We will also host our inaugural Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo at the University of Sussex in June 2025, which currently has 120 contributors registered from across creative and tech industries, the Holocaust heritage and education sector, and academia.

We are also developing a career development learning platform for heritage professionals and a series of international design sprints, we engage directly with funders and policymakers to lobby for better support for digital Holocaust memory work, and run a free consultancy service.

The Lab works with nine international partners and four formal collaborators. We also engage with more than 30 international academics and heritage professionals through our editorial board and steering committee. Find out more about our work here: https://www.digitalmemorylab.com/

Placement Outline

This placement offers a current PhD student the opportunity to work in a busy team environment at the forefront of world-leading arts and humanities research, working with a broad range of international stakeholders. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop a broad range of skills related to research methodologies, ethics and data management providing an excellent grounding for a future career in academia.

This is a particularly exciting time to join the Lab team as several of our major initiatives will launch between June 2025 and January 2026.

The role of Research Assistant is focused on supporting the Lab’s core research activities. The key responsibilities include:

• Segmenting and tagging interview and walkthrough from transcripts and providing suggestions for index catalogue where appropriate

• Supporting quality assurance processes in reviewing database meta-data

• Recording walkthroughs and interviews (there could be options for doing only virtual recordings and/or participating in fieldwork)

• Contributing to the Lab’s blogs  

• Contributing to team meetings, editorial meetings, and supporting the Expo (23rd-28th June 2025)

• Engaging in other activities identified as relevant to career development in agreement with the Lab’s PI

Depending on duration of the placement and/or the interests of the successful candidate, the role may include all or just some of these key responsibilities as agreed between the PI and candidate.

To support the develop of skills, training in the following areas will be provided:

• Research ethics

• Data management

• Research methodologies – interviews and walkthrough recording

• Public communication of research, e.g., through blogs

Selection Criteria

1. Evidence of working in a team environment and an understanding of dealing with team dynamics in professional environments

2. A commitment to arts and humanities research

3. Experience in or willingness to learn digital methodologies

4. Experience or interest in the heritage sector, and/or digital media

5. Sensitivity to dealing with difficult subject matters, such as genocide and Holocaust memory

6. Experience in or willingness to learn more about intercultural communication

7. Enthusiasm for engaging with non-academic audiences

Desirable

8. Experience in ethnographic research, e.g., working with human subjects

How to apply

Please submit a CV and covering letter to training@chase.ac.uk, which explicates how you meet the selection criteria above and why you would like to do a placement with the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, by the application deadline. Successful candidates will be invited to interview.

Please state clearly your ideal working arrangement and availability, e.g., 6 months full-time, or 3-4 days a week and for how long (up to 6 months full-time equivalent), and any pre-arranged holidays.

For informal enquiries about the placement, please contact Prof Victoria Walden, V.Walden@sussex.ac.uk.

4 Day Week Campaign Assistant Internship

The 4 Day Week Foundation are the UK's national campaigning organisation for a four-day week. They are independent, non-partisan and are campaigning across the UK for a four-day, 32 hour working week with no loss of pay for workers.

This is an exciting role with one of the UK’s most prominent campaigns at an important time for the four-day week movement. Over 200 companies in the UK, which includes over 5,000 workers, have permanently adopted a reduced hours four-day week with no loss of pay for employees, with the vast majority reducing working hours to 32 hours a week or less.

You will be part of a volunteer-led organisation with a small staff team punching above its weight in terms of impact. You will be supported in this role and line-managed by our Campaign Director.

Contact

Please get in touch if you would like to find out more and discuss a placement opportunity:

Joe Ryle, Campaign Director of the 4 Day Week Foundation

E-mail: info@4dayweek.co.uk

Website: www.4dayweek.co.uk

There is no application deadline for this placement; you can contact us at any point.

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Student Placement Specification

Role Overview: The student placement will support the development, coordination, and implementation of strategies and projects that further the objectives of the 4 Day Week Foundation. The role will involve a combination of research, project management and communication tasks to help push forward the campaign’s mission to promote the adoption of a four-day working week across the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

1.   Programme and Event Support:

• Support the planning, organising, and execution of a national programme of 4 Day Week Employer events.

• Coordinate logistics, communications, and stakeholder engagement to ensure smooth event delivery.

2.   Research

• Lead on research into our priority business sectors for implementation: education, local government, technology and manufacturing

3.   Project Support:

• Take on project management responsibilities for assigned tasks, working alongside colleagues in the campaign team to ensure successful delivery.

4.   Collaboration with Trade Unions:

• Working alongside our lead organiser, you will partner with the Trade Union movement to promote and support the introduction of a four-day week in workplaces across the country.

• Assist with any union-related initiatives, outreach, and planning.

5.   Communication and Advocacy:

• Support with drafting and distributing our monthly newsletter to campaign supporters, highlighting key developments, events, and initiatives.

• Coordinate monthly volunteer meetings and assist with the organisation of the annual AGM.

• Lead on drafting op-eds, articles, and other written materials when appropriate to promote campaign messages.

6.   Building Partnerships:

• Work on identifying and establishing relationships with new organisations, potential collaborators, and allies who can support the campaign.

• Help create and maintain strong partnerships with relevant stakeholders in the campaign’s ecosystem.

Benefits of Placement:

• Gain experience in campaign management and political advocacy.

• Develop skills in event management, research, and stakeholder engagement.

• Contribute to a high-profile national and international campaign for workplace reform.

• Build valuable connections with campaigners, policymakers, and organisations in the field.

Note on eligibility

CHASE placement funding is only available to CHASE studentship award-holders only.

Message Heard - Marketing Support Placement

About Us

Message Heard - Podcasts with Purpose

Whether it’s creating our own investigative shows such as Finding Natasha, winning the True Crime BPA for our show The Catch, or working with charities and media companies to create shows like the ARIA nominated Power Lines, Message Heard always creates shows with purpose.

Our podcasts tell the stories that others miss, they are driven by powerful characters with complex motivations.

Podcasts are a powerfully intimate way to tell stories. We take that responsibility seriously.

We develop, produce and grow our own successful podcasts… such as Conflicted, with over 1 million listens in 2024 alone, partner with some of the biggest media companies in the world, being the first independent production company to have a Spotify commission.. and work with brands to help them do the same. Including the likes of… House of Commons, Red Bull, British Council and many more.

Everyone has a story to tell — but how do you tell it in a way that really resonates? We keep audiences at the centre of everything we do, focus on audio quality and champion creative storytelling.

Placement Opportunity - Marketing Support

Length of Contract: 3 - 6 months

Location: Remote or Hybrid (London office, Chancery Lane). Hybrid would cater for 1 or 2 days per week (not mandatory unless required for a work related task).

Responsibilities

Be hands-on in an established yet growing production company, conceptualising and executing integrated marketing strategies that have a direct effect on the success of the company. Whilst having access and working with some of the biggest national and international brands and projects.

With responsibilities such as:

• SEO Support

• Content Marketing

• Customer Journey

• Reporting and Analytics

• Performance Marketing

Please make enquiries about the placement to contact@messageheard.com.

To make an application, please submit a cover letter and CV to contact@messageheard.com.

British Library - Placement opportunities for PhD students

Please see https://www.bl.uk/more/research-collaboration/ for the full placement listing.

The British Library’s annual placement scheme offers doctoral researchers from all disciplines the chance to develop and apply transferable skills and expertise outside the university sector.

Projects cover activities ranging from cataloguing, conservation and interpretation to policy research, resource development and research or community engagement. The duration for each placement is 3 months (or part time equivalent). Most placements are also suitable for part-time students, and there may be opportunities to undertake placements remotely which will be indicated on the individual project profiles. Applications for the 2025-26 scheme will open in early 2025.

PhD placements are offered for three months full time or, wherever possible, part-time equivalent.

Our PhD placements offer the opportunity to work on a project in a specific area under the supervision of Library staff. Following an initial induction, placements will involve independent research and require the ability to work autonomously, supported by regular meetings with the Library supervisor, towards an agreed set of objectives.

Please note that we do not accept applications for PhD placements outside this scheme. If you would like to be added to our mailing list for future PhD placement opportunities, please opt-in to the Research mailing list using our My Interests form.

How to apply

For more information about eligibility requirements and the practical arrangements for the placements, please read the BL Placement Application Guidelines 2025 (PDF, 186kb). Each project has a profile which you can find below. You can apply for a maximum of two placement opportunities, and you must apply for each using this Microsoft Form by the application deadline on 21 February 2025, 17.00 (GMT).

Deadline: 21 February 2025, 17.00 (GMT).

 If you have any questions, please direct these to pgr@bl.uk. 

National Trust - Research project to illuminate the context and significance of a seventeenth century prayer book

National Trust Moseley Old Hall: The Missal, Missale Romanum, pub.1623, signed by Father John Huddelston

Location: Remote working but ideally with some time spent at Moseley to understand the property and gain familiarity with the Missal itself.

Timescales:  flexible, during 2025. This placement could be between 1-6 months, and could be part or full-time depending on the student’s preferences.

Context

The National Trust have recently acquired a rare 400 year old prayer book owned by the Benedictine priest who helped hide and save the life of the future King Charles II as he fled Parliamentarian troops in 1651, and who many years later received the dying king into the Catholic Church. This particular book has been well used, with annotations, candle wax drips and even the priest’s own signature found inside – all things that add to the special significance of this book, which has the potential to significantly expand our understanding of how Catholic books were used and circulated at a time when it was dangerous in England for you to be anything other than Anglican.

We would really like a PhD researcher to help us better understand the role of this kind of book, the way it might have been used, its prevalence in 17th century England and so on. The book is now at Moseley Old Hall in Staffordshire.

Research Brief

Aims:

• To better understand the significance of the Missal, its historical, religious and social context as a piece of Continentally-printed Catholic material culture related to two significant historical figures connected to Moseley: Father John Huddleston and Charles II. How does the 1623 Missal relate to other Huddleston relics, particularly the ‘Gillow Missal’ (thought to be) in the collection at Downside Abbey, Somerset.

• To ascertain how Huddleston would have used this Missal during his career, with particular focus on the period of his residence at Moseley and the likelihood of the Missal being present at the death of Charles II – e.g. is the prayer referred to by Huddleston, ‘Recommendation of the Soul’, in the Missal?[1] Would a death-bed service with Charles have been conducted in Latin or English? What Roman Catholic prayer books were being used in England at the time of the King’s death, etc?

• To identify interpretation themes that will help audiences better understand the story around the Missal in meaningful and relevant ways and that highlight potential points of connection between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries; e.g., experiences of religious persecution, religious intolerance, the personal value of printed texts etc.

• To ensure that we are in a better position to deliver public benefit around the meaning and significance of the Missal and its connections to Moseley in line with the property’s ambitions, which positions the property as a place of sanctuary and refuge against a backdrop of religious intolerance and persecution.

Outputs:

• Written report in electronic and hard copy formats at end of research project

• Regular (monthly?) updates of research findings for use in property newsletters, website, on-site interpretation etc.

Why now? The timing for this research coincides with our aim to redisplay the Missal on the ground floor of Moseley Old Hall in order to make it more accessible for more visitors. Since its acquisition a year ago, the Missal has been temporarily displayed in a first floor room. As part of the redisplay we also want to interpret the Missal and bring it alive for people unfamiliar with this type of book and its religious and social context. The research will feed directly into this and provide greater insight into this historic object.

Further information: Father Huddleston's missal on display | National Trust

To apply: Anyone interested in this placement would be most welcome to get in touch with Dr Nicola Froggatt, Research Manager (nicola.froggatt@nationaltrust.org.uk) to discuss further.

[1] As articulated by Huddleston in A short and plain way to the faith and church / Richard Hudleston (London: Henry Hills, 1688)

Open Library of Humanities CHASE Placement

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a multi-award winning open access publisher seeking a CHASE student placement to assist with Editorial, Marketing and Technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The position is fully set up for remote working, so there is no travel requirement involved, and applications for full or part time placements will be considered.

Placement start date: June 2025

Application deadline: Tuesday 1st April 2025

During the placement, you will gain editorial, marketing, technical and administrative experience specifically tailored to the growing academic-adjacent career path of online academic publishing under the supervision of the OLH team. The placement holder will have the opportunity to gain experience in all aspects of the publishing process, from copyediting and production to experience using our in-house publication platform, Janeway, checking editorial compliance to established publisher and journal policies, and other duties to assist across the OLH team as required.

While tasks across our editorial, marketing and technical teams will be part of the role, the placement can also be tailored towards to the holder’s skills and interests by discussion prior to appointment. The placement is available for 6 months full time, or equivalent part time for up to 12 months by arrangement.

Selection criteria

• Excellent understanding of open access publishing and the Open Library of Humanities

• A strong belief in open access publishing

• Knowledge of academic conventions and writing styles in the humanities disciplines

• An interest in the digital humanities and digital publishing

• Highly proficient speaker and writer in the English language with a strong background in academic writing in the humanities

• Ability to work to deadlines and keep track of a range of ongoing tasks and schedules

• Excellent administrative skills

• Strong interpersonal communications skills with the ability to work collaboratively and supportively as part of a team, and handle a wide range of internal and external contacts tactfully and persuasively

• Ability to work independently with initiative, and an analytical approach to problem solving

• Excellent time management and organizational skills

• Experience of updating websites and working with content management systems

• Experience of working with a journal publishing platform or experience working with an academic journal in some capacity is desirable, but not essential for the role.

• Applicant must be a PhD student funded by CHASE, researching at a CHASE institution.

How to apply

To apply for this placement, please send a CV along with a one-page cover letter outlining your skills, experience and suitability for the role to editorial@openlibhums.org. Your application should also indicate your availability, and whether you are applying on a full-time or part-time basis.

Southend Museums - Museum Store Move Coordinator/Assistant

Start Date: ASAP following selection process.

Hours: Open to negotiation with a minimum placement length of 2 months (an ability to commit to longer would be advantageous).

Location: Southend Museums, due to the nature of the role and the requirement to access and work with collection in-person, the successful applicant would need to primarily work on site however we are open to discuss potential accommodations and can accommodate one day a week working from home/offsite.

Deadline: Please submit your application by 7th March.

Background: Southend Museums are responsible for four buildings: Southend Central Museum and Planetarium which hosts internationally significant collections including the Prittlewell Princely burial and London Shipwreck, The Beecroft Art Gallery which hosts Southend’s fine art collection, extensive historic fashion collection and regularly rotating exhibitions, The Prittlewell Priory, our 12th century Cluniac Priory and Southchurch Hall, a rare example of a surviving medieval moated manor house.  

Our extensive collections cover archaeology, natural history, social history, fine art, photography and fashion and textiles. Being a civic museum service, we are at the heart of our community and we are committed to working with our local community partners to champion health and wellbeing and diversity and inclusion.  

Context: We are undertaking an exciting and large-scale collections move that will allow us to bring our significant collection from disparate sites to one central Collections Centre which will in turn increase accessibility to the collection for staff, the public and researchers. Whilst the primary focus of this role will be to assist with the collections move project, there will be additional opportunities to assist with projects ranging from public engagement and digital engagement through to social media and communications. 

Placement Outline 

• Liaising and organising operational logistics: contacting contractors and companies, placing orders etc (office) 

• Packing and preparing objects: readying objects for transfer which will include labelling 

• Documentation: support with documentation, accessioning and location management of objects. 

• Paper archive: preparation and packing of the paper archive 

• Undertaking collections move: alongside our curatorial specialists, handling, packing and moving objects. Assisting with the transfer of crates and boxes between sites. 

• Supporting the transfer of the paper archive. 

• Location management: updating locations for the new site, helping with the creation of a new location monitoring plan. 

• Accessioning: accessioning of a backlog of objects that needs accessioning or digitising 

Skills gained:  

• Curatorial skills. 

• General documentation,  

• Organisational skills,  

• Project  Management  

• Object handling 

This placement will provide you with experience of assisting a large-scale collections move, you will be at the heart of the project working to museum standards and participating in a hands-on and fast-paced environment to achieve safe and efficient completion of a large-scale project. This is an opportunity to gain hands on experience with a public collection including social history, archaeology and natural history. This placement will allow you to utilise your academic learning to deliver practice-based collection work .

To apply please submit a copy of your CV and a short covering letter to vittorioricchetti@southend.gov.uk or robertsharp@southend.gov.uk by 31st January 2025, explaining why you feel you would be suitable for the placement and what inspired you to apply.  

Requirements for the role: 

• High level of manual and physical dexterity 

• Focus and concentration 

• High degrees of accuracy and attention to detail. 

• Comfortable with using nitrile gloves and masks 

• Interpersonal skills 

• Reliable and adaptable 

If you wish to have an informal conversation with regards to this opportunity prior to applying, please contact vittorioricchetti@southend.gov.uk or robertsharp@southend.gov.uk and we will be happy to arrange a call. 

The Hockey Museum

The Hockey Museum (THM, https://hockeymuseum.org/) is the world’s first and only museum of field hockey. Located in Woking, Surrey, it is only a 30 minute train from Waterloo station.  THM preserves, shares and celebrates the sport’s rich history and heritage both in Britain – where the ‘modern’ game started – and worldwide. THM was awarded Full Museum Accreditation by Arts Council England in 2018. It is supported by Woking Borough Council and England Hockey and works in partnership with the Fédération Internationale de Hockey Federation (FIH) to lead their work to preserve hockey’s international history.

THM is offering a three month placement, start date flexible, to create finding aids for the Museum’s collections.  The creation of these finding aids will enhance the accessibility of the Museum’s collections and archives.  The placement student will create the top-level summaries and collection descriptions so that the finding aids can be displayed online for scholars and researchers to know what material is held by the Museum.  As new collections are received, the placement student will also have the opportunity to work with the Museum archivist to scope collections and apply formal structure to and document collections within a museum setting, alongside the creation of the finding aid.  This work will help THM increase the awareness and use of its collections.

Students do not need to have knowledge of field hockey or sport, as this placement is about the creation of finding aids.

The placement student will be expected to be on site for part of the time each week.  This placement can be either full-time or part-time.

Previous placement student Felix has said about his experience: "'My placement at THM was a wonderful experience. The project carries genuine impact in making research and archives more accessible to the public, and presence in a national database;. I was given a fulfilling amount of responsibility, including trust from the curatorial team to make decisions and suggest policy direction, which made the work both engaging and richly rewarding. I was also given one-to-one training, and gained a wealth of knowledge on a subject (archives) which I knew very little about at the outset. Furthermore, this experience has allowed me to take on a subsequent placement at the National Theatre Archives, which would not have been possible without the learning and self-confidence which my time at THM produced."

If you would like to discuss this placement, please contact THM Curator Shane Smith at shane.smith@hockeymuseum.org. To apply, please email your CV (with at least one named academic referee) and a statement of no more than one page on why you are interested in this role to shane.smith@hockeymuseum.org.

CHASE Researcher Networks Officer

Placement Description

Post Title: CHASE Researcher Networks Officer (Placement Intern)

Hours: 6 month placement worked part-time over twelve months (open to alternative proposals regarding working patterns and placement duration).

Preferred start date: As soon as possible.

Location: The CHASE team is located at the University of Sussex, Brighton. Remote working is available, with the occasional need to travel to Sussex/London for meetings and events.

The Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts Southeast England (CHASE) is looking to host a placement for a Researcher Networks Officer, to oversee the administration of the student and staff-led CHASE researcher networks.

Background

CHASE researcher networks are an important part of the CHASE research environment. They facilitate the exchange of ideas within a supportive environment amongst CHASE doctoral researchers, whether funded by CHASE or not. Research networks are led by CHASE-funded researchers but welcome members who are not CHASE-funded and also faculty members at CHASE institutions. Current active CHASE research networks include the Feminist Network, Climate Justice Network, Broadly Conceived, and the Digital Studies Collective, amongst many others. CHASE is committed to enhancing arts and humanities doctoral researchers’ experience across the consortium, including supporting and growing its researcher networks, and this role will be key to achieving this aim.

Reporting to the CHASE Training and Partnerships Manager as your placement supervisor, the post holder is intended to foster strong communication between CHASE researcher networks and the CHASE team; identify and develop shared goals and ambitions between the networks; support administrative tasks relating to networks’ funding applications; support the stability and longevity of researcher networks; encourage participation in relevant networks for PhD researchers across the CHASE consortium; manage communications and web maintenance of Networks pages on the CHASE website; and identify potential and nascent networks and support their development.

For the 10th anniversary of CHASE, the placement will also focus on developing and expanding the CHASE alumni network You will consider and deliver plans relating to how best to engage, communicate with and survey the alumni network.

The placement offers an excellent opportunity to work at the interface of academic scholarship and activism, to understand how academic networks form and function, and to play an active role in strengthening the role of researcher networks within the CHASE research environment.

Primary Responsibilities

Reporting to the CHASE team, the successful candidate will:

1. Establish lines of communication between CHASE research networks, the CHASE Student Committee, and the CHASE team;

2. Work with the organising committees of research networks to identify shared goals and ambitions across networks;

3. Ensure that research network activities complement each other and avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, and explore the potential for cross-network initiatives;

4. Support networks in their events and activities, including the application for and maintenance of funding;

5. Correspond with networks to organise in-event sessions at CHASE events, including Encounters and Induction;

6. Optimise and maintain webpages about research networks on the CHASE website;

7. Map network coverage against fields of research across the consortium and known areas of interest, with a view to identifying areas not currently covered;

8. Uncover existing informal networks and ensure they are offered any necessary support to make them accessible to the wider CHASE researcher community;

9. Support administrative processes relating to network funding applications and securing budgetary and activity reports for funded networks;

10. Produce and maintain an up-to-date overview of researcher network activity across CHASE;

11. Develop and expand CHASE’s engagement and communication with alumni;

12. Ensure that network events are promoted effectively across CHASE, and support registration processes and the collection of attendance and feedback data;

13. Report on matters relating to research networks at CHASE team meetings;

14. Other duties that may be assigned by a member of the CHASE team.

The duties and responsibilities outlined are not intended to be an exhaustive list; instead they provide guidance on the main aspects of the post. The post-holder will be expected to be flexible in their duties, to bring new ideas to the role, and to assist with expanding the scope of CHASE’s current activities and online resources.

To apply

Your application should include:

• A CV

• A brief cover letter, outlining your interest in and suitability for the placement.

Please submit your application to training@chase.ac.uk. Applicants may be invited to interview.

Drawing Room Placement

Drawing Room is the place to discover drawing. We champion the unlimited potential of drawing to help us understand ourselves, each other and our world, through exhibitions, learning projects and a unique library.

Located in southeast London, our not-for-profit organisation features a gallery presenting inspiring free exhibitions of drawings, by artists of international standing and emerging promise. We have a unique open access research library, holding one of the largest collections of titles on contemporary drawing in the world, and our dynamic learning programme makes contemporary drawing relevant and accessible to our communities. Our exhibitions, research and learning activities, together with talks, artist-led projects, special commissions and other events, nurture artistic talent through supporting the production of new work and share the diversity of drawing with an ever-widening audience.

Drawing Room offers placements of a minimum of two days per week over a minimum of 3 months, providing an opportunity to work with the Co-directors researching the future programme, with the Study Librarian on the unique collection, with the exhibitions team on handling artworks and loan agreements, with the Engagement Team on our work with local communities, and with front of house, receiving visitors.

To apply, please send a CV and expression of interest - stating why you wish to undertake the placement and which of Drawing Room’s activities you are most interested in - to yamuna@drawingroom.org.uk.

There is no application deadline for this placement, which can commence at any point during the year.

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Contact: Dr David McAllister, General Editor of 19 (d.mcallister@bbk.ac.uk)

Starting date: ASAP 12 months part time (equivalent to a full time placement of 3 months (FTE)

The electronic, open-access journal, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is seeking a postgraduate editorial intern in Academic Publishing Online. You will gain editorial, organizational and technical experience under the supervision of the General Editor, Dr David McAllister, and with the guidance of the Editorial Board and the journal’s publisher, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). 

Having established itself as an innovative electronic journal in 2005, amongst the earliest titles in the area of nineteenth-century studies to embrace digital publishing, 19 is now part of the open-access world it helped to create: fully peer-reviewed and free to view, it has professional typesetting and production, digital preservation, permanent identifiers, and a sustainable publisher in the OLH. 

Interns have always been, and remain, integral to the journal’s developing strategies to retain quality and distinction in a rapidly changing academic publishing field. The post provides a vital service for the journal; it also provides highly enjoyable and challenging doctoral training provision, equipping humanities graduates with vital transferable skills and experience within the important industry context of academic publishing.

The internship will build skill and expertise in submitting and achieving publication of research material; editing special issues; developing publication projects in association with conferences and seminars; networking; presentation skills; and communication skills. It will equip you with real-world publishing training experience in an open-access environment. 

Interns gain detailed knowledge of the entire process of article submission and peer review. They are trained by an incumbent intern and, in turn, train the next post-holder thus consolidating knowledge and communicating it effectively and in ‘real work’ environments.

The post is for 12 months part time (equivalent to a full time placement of 3 months (FTE)). Most of the work involved can take place wherever there is access to a computer. Each term there will be a team meeting held at Birkbeck, University of London (travel funding will be available).*

Hours are necessarily flexible because of the nature of journal publication and work patterns will be agreed with the General Editor. However, the ‘norm’ is 3.5 hours per week, worked over a 48-week year. 

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Remuneration 

The successful applicant will be paid a stipend in line with UKRI rates

Eligibility

We invite applications from CHASE funded students with research interests in the nineteenth century.

Selection Criteria

Essential

·       Excellent literacy skills

·       Organizational and clerical skills

·       Independence and initiative

·       Research interests in Nineteenth-Century Studies

Desirable but NOT essential

·       Web authoring and design skills

·       Experience in electronic publishing

·       Editing experience

·       Organization of research activities such as Reading Groups, Seminars or Conferences

Application

Please include in your application a letter, outlining your reasons for applying for the post, and CV, together with the name of your supervisor, from whom we will require a reference.

Send to Dr David McAllister (d.mcallister@bbk.ac.uk)  to whom queries can also be addressed.

There is no application deadline for this placement; you can apply at any point.

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed shortly after the closing date.

Start date: ASAP

* If face-to-face meetings are restricted they will take place online.

The Brilliant Club – The Scholars Programme – 2024-25

The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train PhD students and ECRs to support disadvantaged school pupils access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. 

The Brilliant Club provides PhDs and ECRs training in widening participation, research communication, and teaching. Researchers are then paid to deliver academically rigorous programmes to small groups of pupils in state schools across the UK. 

How does it work? On The Scholars Programme, tutors are trained to create a course based on their own academic research pitched at pupils in Key Stage 4 or 5. Tutors also have the opportunity to deliver a pre-designed programme to younger pupils aged 8-10. They deliver this course in university-style tutorials to groups of 7. 

To help fit alongside their other commitments, tutors indicate their availability on a termly basis. Placements are paid from £550 per placement, with an additional £121 for designing a Scholars Programme course (plus London weighting). Travel expenses are also paid.

For more information, register to attend an online information event. 

To apply, fill in the application form here If you have any queries, please get in touch via apply@thebrilliantclub.org.

Bloomsbury Academic: Editorial Placement

The role will provide administrative and editorial support to our department.

The role

Administrative Support

• Admin support for Commissioning Editors and Publishers

• Implementing contract and publication procedures

• Preparing and maintaining accurate records on internal databases

• Completing pro forma such as cheque requisitions and book orders

Editorial Project Management

• Administering the peer review process and rejecting proposals, where appropriate

• Arranging manuscript review where necessary, in consultation with editors

• Preparing manuscripts for smooth handover to production, including dealing with copyright permissions issues

• Briefing manuscripts to production according to key dates schedule

• Preparing cover copy and briefing cover designs, where required

• Assisting with the development of new book projects by carrying out research (e.g. into competition and relevant courses), in consultation with editors

List Management

• Creating and updating title records and other metadata as required

• Contributing to subject blogs and Twitter feeds

• Managing backlist, including monitoring stock levels, reprints and the Print on Demand programme, as required

• Preparing reports for the editorial team, as required

Working with other Departments

• Working with colleagues in production, marketing and sales

• Attending list meetings with production, design and marketing

• Checking catalogue copy

Representation

• Representing the company occasionally at conferences or events, as required

Skills, knowledge, experience

• Well-organised and hardworking

• Meticulous, efficient, with good attention to detail

• Flexible approach with ability to prioritise effectively

• Good time management with ability to meet deadlines

• Strong IT skills including working knowledge of Microsoft Office

• Enthusiastic team player

• Excellent communication skills

• A demonstrable interest in academic publishing
  

This role is based at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP.

The placement will ideally be for 2-3 days a week over a period of 6 months, but there is some flexibility with this.

To apply for this editorial placement, please send a cover letter and CV to Rhodri Mogford: Rhodri.Mogford@bloomsbury.com

There is no application deadline for this placement; you can apply at any point.

Note on eligibility

CHASE placement funding is now available to CHASE studentship award-holders only.

The June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA)

Application deadline: Rolling deadline

Start date: To be negotiated

Outline of organisation

JGPACA is a volunteer-run archive of historical materials relating to African and African diasporic cinemas, with Black British cinema at its core. We aim to make accessible these valuable resources—films, audio recordings, photographs, scripts, posters, documents, publications, and memorabilia—and to provide a nurturing environment for their exploration by scholars, cultural activists, and members of the wider community. We run a programme of regular events ranging from film screenings to public debates and host various community-based projects. Our mission is to safeguard marginalised histories expressed and engaged through the moving image and related materials and to re-activate them in the context of contemporary debates.

Roles and duties

The placement holder will assist June Givanni and her team of volunteers in maintaining and developing the archive. Tasks include collections cataloguing and digitisation; conception and delivery of film screenings and other public events; fundraising and publicity; editorial and administrative support.

Current restrictions permitting, the placement holder will work on location in Fleet Street, City of London, though some duties may be carried out remotely. The placement is available for 6 months full-time, or part-time for up to 12 months by arrangement.

Skills

Working alongside June and her team, the placement holder will gain and/or extend skills and experience in database management, digitisation, curating, editing, and fundraising. Doctoral researchers in the field of film studies in particular will benefit from the archive’s unique collections and resources.

 How to apply

To apply for this placement, please send a CV along with a cover letter outlining your skills and other aspects of your suitability for the role to june@junegivannifilmarchive.com. Please also indicate your availability, and whether you are applying on a full-time or part-time basis.

Person Specification

• Strong interpersonal skills (Required)

• Strong organisational skills (Required)

• Experience of IT (Desired)

• Experience of updating websites and working with content management systems (Desired)

• Interest in African and African diaspora cinema (Desired)

• Editorial Experience (Desired)

June Givanni, Director, June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive

June@junegivannifilmarchive.com

www.junegivannifilmarchive.com

Note on eligibility

CHASE placement funding is now available to CHASE studentship award-holders only.

Turner Contemporary

Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries, showcasing world-class exhibitions. Since opening in Margate in 2011, Turner Contemporary has established itself as a locally embedded, nationally significant arts organisation connecting art, people and place. The gallery is widely recognised as the catalyst for the regeneration of Margate and East Kent and has a track record of transforming lives and driving positive impact through the arts.

Turner Contemporary’s exhibition programme includes historical, 20th century and contemporary art. The gallery, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, looks out on the very views that JMW Turner immortalised in many of his key works. The learning programme champions children’s leadership through the arts and co-curation with diverse audiences is also at the heart of the gallery’s work.

Turner Contemporary is offering placement opportunities to undertake curatorial research and support the work of the Exhibitions and Learning teams on current and future programmes. There are also opportunities to work with other departments including Fundraising and Development, Visitor Experience and Communications.

Placements may be in person or remote, depending on the role and are likely to be for a minimum of 3 months, although we are flexible about duration.

To apply or to request further information please contact smartin@turnercontemporary.org. There is no application deadline for this placement.

Note on eligibility

CHASE placement funding is now available to CHASE studentship award-holders only.

Helping shape the future of work - Placement with The Autonomy Institute

This placement is available to CHASE funded students (in receipt of a CHASE studentship) only.
You must still be receiving your stipend when the placement starts and the placement must have finished before your PhD thesis is submitted for examination.
You will be paid by extension of your stipend. Your funding end date will be extended by the number of months the placement runs for (adjusted for part time hours if necessary).
You can claim support with additional costs, such as travel and accommodation costs.

Please read the guidance notes contained in the CHASE placement application form before applying for this or any other placements offered through this scheme.

Applications for this placement can be considered at any point, on a case by case basis.

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CHASE is partnering with the think tank the Autonomy Institute to offer exciting opportunities for doctoral researchers to engage in the world of innovative and radical policy.

For up to six months, doctoral graduates can work with the Autonomy Institute team on developing new, ambitious research projects that aim to produce the policies necessary for our society to mitigate the ‘crisis of work’ that we are currently experiencing. Some indicative research questions that guide our work are:

How do we deal with automation technologies in the coming years?

How do work and the climate crisis intersect?

How can we guard against the precarity that comes with the ‘gig economy’?

How do we sediment gender equality into the world of work?

Placements at the Autonomy Institute offer an opportunity to garner new research skills, learn how the policy world operates, help shift the Overton Window and potentially make public interventions into the debate about the future of work. You will have the chance to work with our wider research network, including leading academics and other voices that are at the heart of contemporary debates (see our website for more details as to who this might be).

You will be working in small teams, with a diversity of skills brought to bear on a problem: we want to bring architects in conversation with political theorists, policy specialists in conversation with researchers of AI. Diversity in approach will bring out a truly innovative project, beyond the grey documents of your average think tank report.

If you are interested in engaging with CHASE’s placement scheme with the Autonomy Institute, then email info@autonomy.work with a short description of your doctoral research alongside a short paragraph regarding which of the Autonomy Institute’s research strands interest you most. We can arrange a meeting and discuss details then.

https://autonomy.work/

Who are the Autonomy Institute and what do we do?

The Autonomy Institute is a radical, independent think tank that promotes and articulates a world of work that moves beyond precarity, low pay, overwork, mass unemployment and lack of worker democracy. We want to know what the future of work might be, but we also want to articulate what the future of work should be for our societies. We are influenced by heterodox political economy, including Marxism, but also recognise that work is not simply an economic terrain, and involves cultural and political elements all the way down. Unlike most think tanks, we engage with the wider meanings of ‘work’ beyond mere employment.

We put out research papers, policy proposals and other outputs on a range of work-related topics, to be used by journalists, activists, unions and political parties. We regularly appear in the news media as the radical and progressive voice on the future of work, from local radio stations to the BBC, from Al Jazeera to London’s LBC, from the Guardian to the Daily Mail. Our public presence helps us shift the narrative – and the political agenda – around work, allowing us to push a narrative of worker democracy and freedom.

One of the Autonomy Institute’s ongoing aims has been to translate excellent academic work into public interventions into the debate around the future of work; research with impact. Towards this goal, we have congregated some of the best minds in the field as part of our research network and advisory board.

Our main interventions came in 2019, when we published the largest report – to our knowledge – in existence on the topic of working time reduction. Described as a ‘vital contribution’ by Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, it was widely endorsed by trade unions, leading labour economists as well as international voices such as Die Linke’s Katja Kipping.

Our research strands for 2020, from which placed students are encouraged to identify interest are as follows. These strands often intersect and students working on a project will most likely engage with a number of them during their placement:

1. The Control of Workers and Worker Control

Work intensification and speed up: what is the present and future of technological tracking, evaluating or speed up in the modern British workplace?

●     How does workplace discipline get actualised, who commands this discipline and what concrete effects do they have on workers?

Conversely, we also want to explore possibilities of worker control and/or resistance.

●     How can decision-making around labour-saving technology involve workers on a practical basis?

2. A Welfare State for the 21st Century

Our current welfare system is outdated, disciplinary and falling apart at the seems. Universal Credit has been shown to be a failure, even on the government’s own assessment. We need to design a better system.

●     Do we need a basic income, rather than means-tested benefits?

●     What would new welfare spaces look like? What is the Job Centre after the Job Centre?

3. Our Automated Future: the future of technology and its potential for freedom

The future will be automated, but who will that benefit? Policy needs to be in place to make sure the gains from advanced technologies can be shared evenly across populations.

●     What is the future of automation technologies and can they be a force for good?

●     How can government, trade unions and individuals deal with the huge potential of current and near-future automation technologies?

●     What can the history of automation tell us - or warn us - about its deployment within industries?

●     What kinds of technology are we really talking about here? Software bots, driverless cars, retail software, etc.

4. Leisure Beyond Consumption

People are getting older, and our working weeks are (hopefully) going to be shorter in the future: what does leisure look like in the next 20 - 30 years?

●     How do we make leisure less carbon-intensive and less commodified?

●     What would a public infrastructure for leisure look like?

5. Flexibility and Precarity: making the ‘gig economy’ work for the worker

The ‘gig economy’ includes some of the most harmful and exploitative employment practices in the UK. How can this be remedied?

●     Is flexibility always a bad thing?

●     How do we tackle the bogus classification of some workers as ‘self-employed’?

●     Is the ‘gig economy’ here to stay?

Note on eligibility

CHASE placement funding is now available to CHASE studentship award-holders only.