Senior Researcher position AGR-ARA/VUB - FED tWIN mandate

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The General State Archives (ARA) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) are seeking a full-time Senior Researcher in History, attached to each institution for 50 percent. You will be involved in academic teaching activities in the history program at the VUB, conduct scientific research on the history of the Great Lakes Region during the colonial period, and create inventories and source guides of the archives of the mandate areas of Rwanda and Burundi. 

About the VUB:

For already 50 years, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel has stood for freedom, equality and connectedness. These values are strongly present on our campuses, in our students as well as our staff. At the VUB, you’ll find a diverse collection of personalities: pure innovators and especially people who are 100% their authentic selves. With about 3.500 employees, we are the largest Flemish-speaking employer in Brussels, an international city with which we are all too happy to be connected, and around which our four campuses are located. Our education and research are grounded in the principles of free research with an eye on human progress. We disapprove of every purely authoritative argument and guarantee the free formation of judgement that is necessary for this basic principle to be incorporated in the community.

The research group RHEA is committed to the development of scientific research on gender, diversity and intersectionality and the valorisation of this knowledge. We are an interdisciplinary, interfaculty and internationally networked research group committed to the development of scientific research and the valorisation of knowledge in education, external and internal policy-making and public debates.

About the State Archives of Belgium:
The Belgian State Archives is a federal scientific institution that is part of the Federal Science Policy (BELSPO). The institution consists of the General State Archives in Brussels, 18 branches of the State Archives spread throughout the country and the Study and Documentation Centre on War and Contemporary Society (CegeSoma) in Brussels.
The State Archives acquires and preserves (after selection) archives at least 30 years old of courts and tribunals, public administrations and notaries, as well as of the private sector and individuals (companies, politicians, associations and societies, notaries, influential families, etc. who have played an important role in social life). The State Archives ensure that government archives are transferred according to archival standards.
Making these archive documents available to the public, while protecting the privacy of certain data, is one of the main tasks of the institution. In its 19 study rooms, the State Archives makes infrastructure available to a wide and varied public. The direct service via the Internet (the digital reading room) is one of the priorities of the institution (www.arch.be).
One of the main tasks of the scientific staff is to make the immense quantity of barely accessible archives in the institution accessible by providing scientific tools (search guides, archive overviews and guides, inventories, institutional studies), which should enable the researcher to find the desired information fairly accurately and within a reasonable time.



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