Research Assistant: Creative Collaborations, Salons and Networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780-1880
Asia
Full-Time
Fixed-Term (Until 31 January 2025)
£30,955 per annum
Application Deadline: 12pm on 31 March 2022
The British Museum is seeking a Research Assistant to join the Asia department. As a member of the research team of the project ‘Creative Collaborations: Salons and Networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780-1880’, funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the jobholder is to engage with all aspects of the project, including intensive cataloguing and analysis, and planning for a special display in the Museum, to assist in a variety of capacities the Principal Investigators (PI) and Co-Investigators (CoI) in the UK and Japan to deliver the project’s expected outcomes, and to develop original research in line with the project’s themes and to contribute to the project’s publications.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- To input data into a database from relevant biographical resources, i.e. published books from the late Edo period to the present.
- To conduct original research in line with the research project’s themes based on the evidence found through the project’s activities, and to contribute to the project’s presentations and publications.
- To assist the PIs to organise workshops and symposiums.
- To assist the PIs and CoIs to plan a special display at the British Museum and an accompanying catalogue.
- To communicate in English and Japanese with associate project members in the UK, Japan and elsewhere on the project’s development and events.
- Other duties as assigned.
Person Specification:
Education: PhD degree or near completion of PhD in Japanese studies.
Other qualifications: fluent in English and Japanese languages of the modern period; ability to read pre-modern Japanese language; ability to catalogue artworks efficiently in both English and Japanese.
Specific technical/professional skills & experience: intermediate IT skills; knowledge of the history of Japanese art and culture.
Work experience: academic research experience.
Specific managerial skills: occasional supervision of volunteers.
Specific interpersonal skills: ability to maintain close and clear communication with various internal and external colleagues.
Publications record: academic publications desirable.
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