Postdoctoral Researcher / Digital Archivist required

Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MU_SSI) are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher / Digital Archivist on a 24 month contract.

The successful candidate will be a core member of DRI staff and will contribute as part of a team on the Wellcome Trust funded project Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources. The appointee’s tasks will be to catalogue data from the InherShoes facebook page, to write a literature review and reports on the project, as well as to assist the PIs in project management and collaborate with them in academic publications and presentations. The successful applicant will be expected to work effectively as part of a team, maintain active liaison with stakeholders and collaborators, make a significant contribution to the dissemination of project outputs (incl. workshops, publications, web site, etc.).The successful applicant will have a proven ability in report writing, with academic publication an advantage, and organisational experience, including the ability to work both under their own initiative and collaboratively as part of a team. Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources: Archiving the 8th is a three year research project which began in June 2020, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust. The aim of this post is to assist in the development of a strategy for archiving data from sensitive social movements and reproductive rights campaigns, and pilot this strategy through the preparation and ingest of the InherIrishshoes Facebook page data, as well as data from academic research projects and civil society organisations, to the Irish Qualitative Data Archive and Digital Repository of Ireland. Through this process we also intend to identify and create a registry of additional digital content about the Irish 2018 abortion referendum which is held by Irish cultural and heritage organisations. In preparing the material for digital preservation we will identify the appropriate vocabulary and, if necessary, develop or expand existing materials for use in an Irish based collection pertaining to reproductive health and bodily autonomy

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