The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology and the Cambridge Archaeological Unit seeks to appoint a Senior Research Associate (Grade 9, 0.5 FTE) for three years to play a leading role in the development of a major new strategic research initiative exploring the long-term cultural and environmental history and archaeology of the Fenland region. Supported by a senior leadership team, the successful candidate will be expected to collaborate in shaping the project's aims, strategy and methods and to manage aspects of the project. The candidate will be expected to hold broad experience of leading field archaeology in wetlands preferably in the Fenland region or elsewhere in the UK. They must hold a general familiarity with a wide range of archaeological data, periods and methods including ecological approaches to landscapes, stratified excavations, dating, multiple classes of artefact and particularly a range of palaeoenvironmental data. The successful candidate will manage project members and lead on the collation, synthesis and analysis of a wide range of wetland palaeoenvironmental data. They must hold experience of working with diverse human-environment records including those from zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, palynology, geoarchaeology and palaeohydrology, with primary expertise in one or more of these. Planning and working independently to budget, the successful applicant will design and coordinate original analyses of existing archived palaeoecological data and develop targeted original palaeoenvironmental research to complement existing records. The post-holder will liaise with multiple academic and non-academic stakeholders and coordinate a GIS specialist and other team members to collate these palaeoenvironmental data with wider archaeological and remote-sensing data. They will design original analysis to synthesise broad changes to the human ecology of the Fens over the last 5,000 years, relating a series of time-sliced ecological models to wider issues surrounding the future ecology of the region and producing published and other outputs targeted at both academic and non-academic stake holders.
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