Help unlock Scotland’s insect collections for research and public discovery. You will lead the day-to-day work of a small team digitising insect specimens, coordinating workflows from specimen preparation and imaging through to databasing and quality assurance. Working closely with Natural Sciences curators and collections colleagues, you will help ensure that digitisation is delivered efficiently, safely and consistently, producing high-quality digital records and images for colleagues, researchers and the public.
This role is part of the DiSSCo-UK project, funded by UKRI. DiSSCo UK (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) is a £155 million, 10-year national programme to digitise and connect the UK’s natural science collections. The programme is funded through the UKRI Infrastructure Fund and delivered by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in partnership with the Natural History Museum and more than 100 partners across the UK. The digitiser posts are associated with the first phase of the project focusing on pinned insects (NMS) and herbarium sheets (RBGE).