he British Library annual placement scheme offers doctoral researchers from all disciplines the chance to develop and apply transferable skills and expertise outside the university sector.

Projects cover activities ranging from cataloguing, conservation and interpretation to policy research, resource development and research or community engagement. The duration for each placement is 3 months (or part time equivalent).

Current research themes are available on the British Library’s website, where more information on each theme is available. The themes open for applications now are:

• Sarah Sophia Banks’s guide to her ‘Ceremonies &c p = print’
• Imprimerie Royale Proofs 1640-1789 
• Computational analysis of early printed book descriptions
• Curating the manuscripts in the Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde collection: provenance, preservation and access
• Examination of the British Library’s collection of American underground comix and related ephemera 
• Understanding user needs on climate change and sustainability
• Unearthed at the British Library: achieving a sustainable exhibition
• Afro-Brazilian history and culture in print: surveying the British Library collections
• Mapping the collections: oral histories of architecture in the British Library

Deadline: 21 February
More information and booking here.