Part-Time Postdoc: Feminist Oral History Archivist

UNSW; Moscow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 67,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

17% Superannuation contributions and 3

Additional leave over Christmas period

Discounts and entitlements

Job summary

UNSW Kensington Campus invites applications for a part-time Post-Doctoral Fellow to lead a research project on Oral Her-story Archive in New South Wales. The position is a 12-month fixed-term contract, 14 hours per week, with duties including interviews, archival work, and ethics compliance.

The appointee will work closely with the historian Associate Professor Zora Simic and contribute to a feminist history of child sexual assault, supported by a strong funding history.

Qualifications

• PhD (or equivalent) in History or related field.
• Experience in oral history and qualitative interviewing, especially on sensitive topics.
• Familiarity with trauma-informed and feminist methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with key stakeholders and interview participants.
• Develop interview protocols and oral history methodology.
• Manage UNSW ethics processes and compliance requirements.
• Conduct interviews, coordinate transcripts and code interviews.
• Organise materials for archive cataloguing and digitising in advance of a public-facing website.
• Liaise to access personal archives and supplementary materials.
• Work with relevant repositories to prepare for storage of materials.
• Undertake preliminary literature review and contextual historical research.
• Prepare funding applications.

Skills

Oral history experience

Qualitative interviewing

Trauma-informed methods

Education

PhD in History or related field

Gender/Cultural studies or sociology

Job description

UNSW Kensington Campus invites applications for a part-time Post-Doctoral Fellow to lead a research project on Oral Her-story Archive in New South Wales. The position is a 12-month fixed-term contract, 14 hours per week, with duties including interviews, archival work, and ethics compliance.

The appointee will work closely with the historian Associate Professor Zora Simic and contribute to a feminist history of child sexual assault, supported by a strong funding history.