Job Details
* Job reference: HUM-031267
* Salary: £37,694 - £46,049 per annum, depending on relevant experience
* Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
* Location: Manchester
* Employment type: Fixed Term
* Division/Team: History
* Hours Per Week: 1 FTE
* Contract Duration: 21 months
* School/Directorate: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
* Closing date: 06/05/2026
Position Overview
This 21-month Research Associate position sits within the ERC project “INTRECCI: Institutional Transformation and the Entangled Commercial Cultures of International Trade, 1450-1750”. The project sets out to use archives from across the world and an interdisciplinary methodology to deliver a global and intrinsically comparative analysis that will reveal globalisation’s multipolar and adaptive institutional origins. Under the overall framework of the project, the Research Associate will contribute to both the comparative study of the project’s three case‑study regions (placed within wider contexts that encompass geographies across much of Africa and Asia) as well as the connected analysis of institutional exchange between them.
Key Responsibilities
The successful applicant will work closely with Prof Smith and the rest of the project group, composed of two other full‑time Research Associates, Dr Mariana Boscariol and Dr Shounak Ghosh. Key duties will include:
* Conducting comparative research across the three case‑study regions.
* Engaging with primary sources in relevant languages.
* Collating and analysing data to support the project’s objectives.
* Producing scholarly outputs, including conference presentations and manuscripts.
* Participating in regular project meetings and contributing to collaborative work.
Qualifications
* PhD in early modern, global, or economic history, or a closely related field.
* Expertise in the history of trade and empire across geographic and imperial boundaries.
* Working proficiency in relevant languages and experience with primary sources in those languages.
* Excellent communication skills in English.
* Strong analytical and research skills.
Benefits
* Fantastic market leading pension scheme
* Excellent employee health and wellbeing services, including an Employee Assistance Programme
* Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
* Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
* Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers
As an equal opportunity employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
Our University is positive about flexible working. Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
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