Please share far and wide with candidates with PhDs in information science / data management / DH 🚨 ---- Come work with us in the Slavery in War Research Centre! Research Associate of Slavery in War (Information Science / Data Management), Digital Humanities, King's College London Grade and Salary: £45,031 - £48,607 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance Job ID: 123566 Close Date: 11-Sep-2025 Contact Person: Professor Simon Tanner Contact Details: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an a fixed term contract until 31st October 2027. Interviews are due to be held on 22nd September. In 2025, the King’s College London and University of Nottingham will launch the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, funded by the Leverhulme Trust for up to £10 million over ten years. The Centre will be the first to systematically investigate the slavery–war nexus across history and into the future, using novel interdisciplinary methods that span the social sciences, humanities, and data sciences—including forecasting techniques, survivor narratives, and Earth Observation data. By reshaping knowledge and creating innovative tools and early warning systems, the Centre aims to support the global goal of eliminating forced labour, modern slavery, and human trafficking. You will bring information science and data management expertise into the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War. The new Centre for Research on Slavery in War is structured around four interconnected research strands—(Re)conceptualising, Understanding, Forecasting and Tackling—and aims for far-reaching insights that transform global responses to modern slavery in conflict settings. The role is based within the Understanding strand, in the Department of Digital Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The Understanding strand will map the distribution, prevalence and forms of slavery across diverse conflict zones in the modern world, building a new analytical paradigm to understand the phenomenon of slavery in war. Key research questions include: how has slavery manifested in war? How can diverse datasets be synthesised and analysed to research and address slavery in war? By working across the Centre’s datasets and using data analytics and machine learning, this Centre strand will build a blended data resource that can help to gauge the prevalence, forms, and distribution of slavery in wars. Apply at: https://my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=1&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=123566# -- Dr Andrea Ballatore Senior Lecturer in Cultural Data Science • HPL/GTA Lead • PGT Coordinator Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London 🗺️ Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/cultural-geo-analytics-lab> • LinkedIn<https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andreaballatore> 🏛️ Mapping Museums Lab<http://mappingmuseumslab.io/> • Computational Humanities RG<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> 📅 Book Office Hours<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/[email protected]?anonymous&ep=plink> • He/him • Research day: Friday Latest publications: Open access in GIScience and geographic data science link<https://aballatore.space/open-access-giscience> A geography of UK museums link<https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12578>