Postdoctoral Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology

Rethinking Relationships is a collaboration to develop and adapt museum practice to build trust with communities and improve access to collections from Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, and Uganda. It aims to respond to questions all museums must face about how they interpret, record, and acquire collections. The project seeks to employ two relationship managers who will work with UK diaspora communities and communities in five countries. You will act as the main connectors between engaged communities and collections. You will liaise and support the handling of collections for communities both in the UK and in Africa. It is expected that the two Relationship Managers will clearly split the partner museums between them and will be based in one of the four partner museums ideally with one based in either the Horniman Museum or World Museum, National Museums Liverpool; and with the other based in either the Pitt Rivers Museum or Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Travel between the museums will be expected. 

These two roles are essential for the successful delivery and achievement of this ambitious project. You will work closely with communities, the Project Coordinator and relevant staff from the four partner museums.  

Responsible to: The Project Coordinator, Rethinking Relationships, Pitt Rivers Museum