Job Vacancies at UWA: Doctoral Researchers

23 May 2025

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In 2026, the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts (UWA) will enter its second phase. We are now looking for new colleagues to join our team as doctoral researchers.

UWA offers an exciting opportunity to research handwritten artefacts across materials, periods, and regions within a collaborative team of doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior/professorial researchers. You will be part of an international team of researchers from across over 40 disciplines in the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and Computer Science. The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures is by now the largest research centre of its kind worldwide and offers a uniquely dynamic research environment.

We are seeking to recruit doctoral researchers to pursue their research project that fits the overall comparative research profile of UWA. You will actively contribute to the cluster’s interdisciplinary Graduate School and collaborative activities. Activities include participation in research meetings, organising scholarly events and developing relevant networks.

We welcome research projects with a clear focus on the study of written artefacts. Projects focussing on artefacts from Asia, Africa, and the Americas are particularly encouraged. In general, applicants should have a strong interest in the materiality of written artefacts and in cooperating beyond disciplinary boundaries, that is, across various fields in the Humanities, and/or across the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Computer Science. Applicants from all fields of the Humanities, Natural Sciences and Computer Science are welcome.

The deadline for applications is 22 June 2025. More information on the position and how to apply is available here.

We are also looking for several postdocs. You can find more information on these calls for applications here.