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Start date: 1 October 2025
Contract type: Full-time studentships for 4 years (or part-time equivalent up to a maximum of 8 years).
Salary: The award pays an annual, tax-free stipend for both home and international students. The UKRI National Minimum Doctoral Stipend for 2025/6 is £20,780. There is also a CDP maintenance payment of £600/year. The award pays tuition fees up to the value of the full-time home UKRI rate for PhD degrees. Research Councils UK Indicative Fee Level for 2025/2026 is a minimum of £5,006.
Closing date: 20 June 2025
Interview date: w/c 7 July 2025
Northumbria University and The Bowes Museum are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2025 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.
This project will provide the first comprehensive study of Blackborne Lace Collection at The Bowes Museum, focusing on the 19th-century antique lace trade and its influence on fashion and society.
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Hours: 24 hours per week
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £15,983 pro rata (£24,640 pa)
As the Bowes Museum enters an exciting period of change, investment and transformation, we are seeking to recruit a Catering Supervisor to join our Catering team. You will be a key player in the development of our award-winning café and wider catering offer.
The visitor is central to our offer at The Bowes Museum, to succeed in this role you will be enthusiastic, motivated, able to work on your own initiative and collaborate with others. You will be responsible, among other things, for planning and implementing staff rotas, delivering the highest standards of customer care, food hygiene and allergen awareness, training of catering team members, and reconciling daily takings on EPOS. You will be an effective communicator and have strong organisational skills.
Some weekend and Bank holiday working will be required as well as some evening work for events, and exhibition previews.
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Learning Producer (Young People and Adults)
Hours of work: 3o hours per week
Salary: £26,000 pro rata, £21,081.08 (actual)
Term: Permanent
Responsible to: Learning Manager
Place of work: The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Closing Date: 9am, Monday 9 June 2025
Interviews: Tuesday 17 June 2025
This new role of Producer (Young People and Adults) will help to develop and further build an ambitious learning programme unique to The Bowes Museum.
As the post holder, you will design, develop and co-deliver events, activities, long-term initiatives and one-off interventions for and with young people and adult communities of interest, geography and circumstance that build curiosity in, improve access to, and forge connection with, the Museum’s collections, building and Parkland. Working closely with staff, partners and community members to co-create contributions to programming, your engagements will encourage thinking and action relevant to global, social and cultural concerns.
As successful candidate, you will have a strong belief in the power of cultural learning, a passion for storytelling through collections and strong communication and interpretative skills. We need a proactive individual with experience of working with young people and adult audiences, co-producing events and activities and commissioning and contracting Artists, Designers and Makers.
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