Help unlock Scotland’s insect collections for research and public discovery. Working with the Natural Sciences digitisation team, you will carefully prepare, photographs and database insect specimens, creating accurate records and images for colleagues, researchers and the public. This practical role is at the heart of a major collections digitisation programme.
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).