Overview
Location: Brighton - Moulsecoomb
Salary: £41,064 to £48,822 pro rata
Fixed Term End Date: 30/09/2028
Closing Date: Sunday 19 October 2025
Reference: HU3231-25-209
Join an international collaborative project researching film and visual history in Uganda.
We’re looking for a Research Fellow in African Film and Visual History to join the international team responsible for the new research project The Uganda Film Unit Archive: Digitisation, Research and Restitution, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project is led by Darren Newbury, Professor of Photographic History, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Brighton and Richard Vokes, Professor of Anthropology and International Development, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia; and involves collaboration with the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation.
You will work closely with Professor Newbury and Professor Vokes, playing an important role in the content mapping of the digitised Uganda Film Unit archive and related archival and historical research; supporting fieldwork, data collection and analysis relating to the responses to the archival footage among Ugandan publics and communities; and disseminating the project findings through conference presentation and publication.
Responsibilities
* Contribute to content mapping of the digitised Uganda Film Unit archive and related archival and historical research
* Support fieldwork, data collection and analysis relating to responses to the archival footage among Ugandan publics and communities
* Disseminate project findings through conference presentations and publication
Qualifications
* A PhD (or an equivalent level of professional experience) in an area of history, theory or practice central to the focus of the research project
* Experience of researching in African History/Studies, Film or Media History, Visual Anthropology, or Visual Culture Studies
* Sufficient, up-to-date breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline and of research methods and techniques to work within established research programmes
* Experience of data collection and data analysis (including visual data) and data management
* Evidence of commitment to engage in continuous professional development including knowledge of methods for data management
* Understanding of equality of opportunity, academic content and issues relating to student need and commitment to ethical research practices
* Competent and relevant IT skills, effective use of IT for research, and ideally teaching and learning purposes
The appointment is for a fixed term (18.5 hours per week, 0.5 full-time equivalent) with an ideal start date of 01/12/25 and an end date of 30/09/28.
Further information
For further information about the role and the qualities we are looking for, please see the job description.
Why Join Us?
At Brighton, you’ll find a supportive and forward-thinking academic community. We offer a generous annual leave package, travel loan schemes and a range of other benefits.
The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.
For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University’s expectation that home working will take place within the UK.
Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.
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