Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Classics

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 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 these main areas, with one post giving preference to candidates with expertise in archaeology and/or material culture.

The posts are available from 1^st 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.

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