Scholar-in-Resdence Program Deutsches Museum Munich
Scholar-in-Resdence Program Deutsches Museum Munich
The Deutsches Museum has several attractive scholarships
to offer research scholars interested in working for six or 12 months on
projects involving the museum's vast and heterogeneous collections. The
scholarship programme is international and interdisciplinary in scope.
There are myriad opportunities at the Deutsches Museum
for innovative research into scientific processes and the changing cultures of
technology. Founded in 1903, the museum's holdings comprise some 100,000
objects; an archive of 4,500 shelf metres including an extensive collection of
scientific photographs, technical illustrations, trade literature and private
papers; and a specialist reserach library with
875,000 volumes, 5,000 journals, and an extensive
collection of rare books on the history of science and technology. The museum's
collections have evolved over the years, absorbing the instruments, books and
archives of individual scientists and engineers as well as of companies and
scientific institutions, and reflect bygone experimental systems and cultures
of innovation. The unique structure of this collection enables scholars to
develop innovative cross-disciplinary methods of research on the basis of
texts, images and artefacts available on site and to engage in both the
historical and archaeological exploration of science and technology.
Applicants are invited to base their projects on the
collections of the Deutsches Muaseum and to cooperate closely with museum staff
on site when formulating their research proposals. Projects involving
innovative approaches to artefact-oriented research are especially welcome.
During their stay, visiting scholars will have daily
contact with the museum's curators, archivists and librarians (approx. 50 staff
members)
Technikgeschichte (Munich Center for the History of
Science and Technology; approx. 50 staff members).
Scholarship holders will have their own workplace with a
desktop computer and telephone, and the opportunity to reside temporarily in
subsidized apartments of the museum complex insofar as these are available.
They will present their research projects to colleagues at the beginning of
their stay and will be expected to participate regularly in the museum's and
the Munich Centre's Monday colloquium series and workshops.
Pre-doctoral stipends: Euro 7,500 (six months)/ Euro
15,000 (full year).
Post-doctoral stipends: Euro 15,000 (six months)/ Euro
30,000 (full year). Scholars at any level of seniority are eligible to apply,
provided they have at least one university degree. There are no restrictions
regarding nationality. All scholars are requested to make their own provisions
for health insurance.
- Application deadline: 12 October 2012
- Candidate selection: 5 November 2012
Please send applications, including:
- completed application form
- curriculum vitae
- project description (3-5 pages)
- two confiential references (can be sent directly by the
referees)
to the following address:
Andrea Walther
Coordinator of teh Research Institute
Deutsches Museum
80306 Muncih
Tel.: 00 49 (0) 89 2179-280
Fax: 00 49 (0) 89 2179-239
e-mail: a.walther@deutsches-museum.de