After the End BFI-TORCH Researcher
Part time – up to 15 hours per week for 12 weeks
Salary: Grade 7.1 (£18.98 per hour)
Dates: 12 weeks – start date negotiable but must begin by April 2024
We have an opportunity for a researcher to join the project led by Prof Patricia Kingori (University of Oxford). This position will contribute to the collaborative research project between Curators at the BFI (British Film Institute) and Professor Patricia Kingori, principal investigator of the Wellcome-funded ‘After the End’ project. This inter-disciplinary project explores ideas of time and temporality and in particular different notions of endings. Its focus is on who gets to decide when an end has occurred, with what consequence and to explore what happens after.
This project centres on three domains of global health: environmental disasters, disease outbreaks and drug resistance with particular emphasis on countries in the global south. These domains will provide case studies to ground some of the larger questions about how ideas of endings are constructed, counter-narratives and lived experiences of what ‘after’ and ‘post’ means in context.
TORCH is supporting this project as part of its strategic aim to develop interdisciplinary research projects with researchers in the University of Oxford and key partnerships with external expert organisations.
This research position represents an opportunity to bring together different research expertise, perspectives, and resources. It has two main aims:
1) to carefully document how ideas of ends and endings are imagined in postcolonial films and environmental/ecological films; and
2) to explore how cultural resources such as documentary and feature films/TV contribute to past, present, and future imaginaries of endings.
The ideas and examinations of the ‘After the End’ project will take place in collaboration with the BFI to engage with subjects relevant to professional archival practice and some of the questions which emerge in the development and maintenance of collections, such as:
•can an archive ever end? and
•if so, what happens after the end of an archive?
The role and spec:
We are looking for a researcher who has a PhD/Dphil and with experience and knowledge of working with archives (particularly moving image archives); has a wider humanities knowledge in the concepts of the ‘After the End’ project; ability and interest in working collaboratively with other researchers and external partners.
Deadline and application: If interested in this role, please submit your CV and a brief letter to victoria.mcguinness@humanities.ox.ac.uk by 5pm on Thursday 14 March 2024.
