Research Assistant/Associate in Archaeology (Fieldwork)

Requisition ID: 29087

Location: Newcastle, GB

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Working Pattern: Full Time

Posted Date: 22 May 2026

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package, plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

The Role

Ecologies of Governance is an AHRC-funded archaeological research project investigating the emergence of inequality and the economic basis of rulership in early medieval societies. The scheme will undertake multi-proxy and comparative analyses of the environment and agrarian regimes of some of the most iconic early royal landscapes of Britain and Ireland, the results of which will revolutionise our understanding of rulership and governance in the first millennium AD.

As a Fieldwork Research Assistant/Ass...