Description UE07 £40,247 - £47,874 per annum School of History, Classics and Archaeology Fixed-term: 3 years Full Time: 35 hours per week The Opportunity: The School of History, Classics, and Archaeology seeks to appoint two three-year Research Fellows under the aegis of the UKRI-funded research project, Class Struggle in Ancient Greek Democracy (under the framework of the ERC Consolidator Grant scheme). Each Research Fellow will contribute to one or more of the central and substantial areas of the ClassDem project’s focus: 1. Class and the Economy; 2. Class Identity, Ideology, and Culture; 3. Class and Politics; 4. Class at the Intersection: Slaves, Women, Foreigners. Both posts will be open to projects falling within the remit of any of these main areas, with one post giving preference to candidates with expertise in archaeology and/or material culture. The posts are available from 1 September 2025. The successful candidate will be appointed at Grade UE07 - Step 1 £40,247 per annum. Your skills and attributes for success: The research fellows will display the critical skills needed to develop new paradigms for the investigation of dynamics of class formation and class struggle (and related phenomena) in the context of Ancient Greek democracy, and will be open to exploring and deploying appropriate paradigms in other cultures and disciplines. They will participate in the project’s research and impact/outreach activities and work towards the publication of a single-authored monograph on a topic relevant to the project. They will be able both to conduct research independently and to work as part of a team. Click here to view a copy of the full job description (opens new browser tab). Application Process Applications should include: - a CV; - a cover letter; - a full and original research project (falling within the remit of at least one of the main areas of the project), ca. four-pages long. - indicate the names of three academic familiar with your work and profile who will be required to submit reference letters As a valued member of our team you can expect: A competitive salary An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits Championing equality, diversity and inclusion The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab). The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa. Key dates to note The closing date for applications is 26 February 2025. Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone. Interviews will be held in March. About the team Classics at Edinburgh offers teaching across all the main areas of classical studies – Greek and Latin Literature and Thought, Ancient History, and Classical Art and Archaeology – and has recently expanded into Byzantine, Medieval Latin, and Modern Greek Studies. All academic staff teach at all levels of the curriculum. Undergraduate applications to the uniquely flexible single and joint honours degrees in Classics are buoyant and applications and enrolments are high, both in our four taught programmes (Classics; Ancient History; Classical Art and Archaeology; Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies) and in our research degrees, with large numbers of students coming from abroad. Research interests in the subject area cover virtually all areas of classical studies. Our archaeologists conduct fieldwork from Italy to (Sasanian) Iran; our historians are doing groundbreaking work on the Ancient Greek city, Greek politics and political thought, the history of the Hellenistic empires, of the Near East, Greek Roman slavery, and late Roman culture and politics. Our language and literature staff cover Greek and Latin literature from Archaic and Classical Greece via Augustan and Imperial Rome to the late antique, medieval, and modern transmission and reception of the Greek and Latin Classics. In REF2021, the most recent research assessment exercise, Classics was ranked third in the UK for Research Power.