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The project is looking for a Researcher with proven competence in documentation of research as a conceptual framework. The researcher will be responsible for coordinating researcher teams, builders, and museums and guiding and documenting the research process, as well as coordinating the construction of copies of two of the REM@KE instruments: the 1781 Johann Andreas Stein claviorgan in Gothenburg, and the Pleyel pianino from the 1840s. The researcher will travel with PI Speerstra, PI Guido and their teams to museums for data collection campaigns and help communicate the knowledge.
The researcher will be expected to actively participate in communicating the documentation process within museum contexts, as well as cultivating relationships with relevant builders and experts.
The researcher will also:
- Coordinate between research/documentation teams, museums, and builders
- Work with the Gothenburg research team and the City Museum to develop further research projects relating to the Stein project
- Document of both the research and building processes relating to the two identified microecologies
- Coordinate with York team/facilitating cognitive research with builders involved
- Develop own research profile within the project, focussing on history of ideas and/or ethnological study of instrument building practices.
Closing date: 15 July 2026
Enquiries: For more information contact joel.speerstra@hsm.gu.se or eleanor.smith-guido@hsm.gu.se
Euraxes link: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/447627