Research Funding: Material and Cultural Heritage of the OVGU
University collections represent a significant resource for research and education, whereby the scientific study of collections requires interdisciplinary questions and methods that provide information about different knowledge practices in the past and present. The development and integration of the OVGU's material and cultural heritage as infrastructure for research is an innovative interdisciplinary research project and includes the processing of the collections of the OVGU. Cooperation with the city's museums, the city archives and the Museum of Technology is of central importance for this. The project, which is funded by the state of Saxony-Anhalt for the period from 2021 to 2024, focuses on the scientific investigation of our material culture and includes questions about social, cultural, historical and epistemological contexts. It not only works on a collection-based research project, but the results achieved are also to be communicated to a broader public. It thus sees itself as a new centre of gravity or even catalyst of Third Mission.
Within the research project, the Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies invites applications for two positions. For a limited period of three years, one position of scientific assistant and one position of project assistant each with 50% working time and remuneration according to TV-L 13 and TV-L 12, respectively, are advertised for 1 October 2021. For details on the contents of the respective positions, please see the job advertisements. The application deadline is 31 July 2021. More information on the positions can be found here or in the job advertisements.