Job Vacancies at UWA: Postdoctoral Researchers

23 May 2025

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UWA is also seeking to hire postdoctoral and advanced postdoctoral researchers to pursue research projects that fit our overall comparative research profile. The deadline for applications is 22 June 2025.

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 welcome independent 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.

We are seeking to recruit postdoctoral researchers to pursue independent research projects that fit the overall comparative research profile of UWA. You will contribute to the cluster’s programme through your active engagement in its collaborative activities. Activities include participation in research meetings, academic publications, organising scholarly events, and maintaining and developing cooperations and relevant networks.

• More information on the position and how to apply is available here.

In addition, we are seeking to recruit advanced postdoctoral researchers to pursue an independent research project that fits the overall comparative research profile of UWA and to take on a leading role in one of the cluster’s project groups (PG). A PG consists of a small and versatile team of researchers from across disciplines and career stages, who work on specific case studies in written artefact research. Your role includes actively contributing to conceptualising the PG’s work programme, guiding participating doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, and developing new topics in the field. Furthermore, your responsibilities include supervising MA students and their theses and supporting the development of third-party funded projects.

• More information on the position and how to apply is available here.