The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), National Library of the Netherlands, is welcoming proposals for its fully paid Researcher-in-residence programme in 2020. This programme offers an opportunity for early career researchers of all disciplines to work in the library with the Digital Scholarship team and KB data. The deadline is 30 September 2019.
The researcher-in-residence position offers secondment with the KB for 0,5 fte for a period of 6 months, support from a research software engineer, advisor, and collection and data specialists.
To be eligible to apply candidates must be:
- A PhD-student in the final stages of their PhD project or researchers that have obtained their PhD between 2015 and 2019
- Employed at a university or research institute in the EU as academic researcher, or, when you are an external PhD, able to use the funding to obtain a contract at your university
- Interested in using one (or more) of the digital collections of the KB,
- Available for 0.5 fte over a period of 6 months (preferably from Q1 2020 or Q3 2020) and able to spend at least 1 day a week at the KB premises.
The KB recommends that you contact them at dh@kb.nl in advance of submitting your proposal, so that you can discuss eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and KB support with the Digital Scholarship team.
More information is available at the KB website.
