1 (one) Research Fellowship for Master´s students in History within the Project “Memories, Archives, Materialities and Mediatons of Work – WorkMem”

Organisation/Company Laboratório de Paisagens, Património e Território - Lab2PT Department Universidade do Minho Research Field History > Contemporary history Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Bachelor Positions Application Deadline 16 Nov 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Country Portugal Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 3 Nov 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

1 (one) Research Fellowship for Master´s students in History

Reference: Lab2PT/ WorkMem/01

A call for applications is now open for the attribution of one Research Fellowship for Master´s students in History within the scope of the R&D project “Memories, Archives, Materialities and Mediatons of Work – WorkMem”, project with reference Lab2PT-PEx/01/2026, of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), Ref. UID/04509/2025, financed by national funds (PIDDAC) through FCT/MCETES, under the following conditions:

Scientific Area: History

Recipient category: Bachelor in History, enrolled in a Master Degree’s in History.

Requirement for granting the fellowship:

• The applicants may apply without prior registration in the course for which the fellowship is open. The requirement to enroll in a degree course or non-academic degree course will be verified on the date of contracting the fellowship;
• Only fellowships whose selected applicants present a valid proof of enrolment in a degree course or non-academic degree course will be contracted, according to the type of the fellowship, indicating, respectively, the academic year or its duration (star and term).

Profile:

The following are eligible to apply for this competition:

• Nationals or citizens of other member states of the European Union;
• Citizens of third countries;
• Stateless persons;
• Citizens with political refugee status

Candidate admissibility requirements:

Applicants must, at the time of application, hold a bachelor's degree in the scientific field of History.

Applicants must also demonstrate:

• Research skills in Contemporary History and the History of the Present, particularly with regard to the socio-political and economic dynamics of contemporary Portugal, especially in the Northern region of Portugal;
• Skills in producing academic content and publishing it on digital platforms;
• Skills in selecting, processing and editing written, visual and audiovisual sources;
• Skills in communicating and disseminating the results of historical research;
• Skills in working both independently and as part of a team.

Admissibility requirements:

It is essential, under penalty of not being admitted to the competition, to attach the following documents to the application:

• The candidate's curriculum vitae;
• Motivation letter showing suitability for the profile presented in this notice;
• Certificates of the academic degrees obtained or, if applicable, the candidate's declaration of honor that he/she has completed the degrees required in the notice by the application deadline (not applicable to research initiation grants);
• For degrees obtained abroad, the record of recognition of the academic degrees and record of the conversion of the respective final classification to the Portuguese classification scale must be presented, or, alternatively, the candidate's declaration of honor (not applicable to research initiation grants);

Applicants eligibility:Applicants must comply with the eligibility conditions laid down in article 9 of the Research Grants Regulation of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2019).

Workplan and objectives to be achieved:

The activities to be carried out by the scholarship holder include scientific work and technical-digital tasks, in accordance with the plan set out below:

• Conducting guided research in the archives of the socio-professional institutions participating in the project;
• Conducting guided research and digitising periodicals;
• Carrying out guided research into audiovisual sources in repositories;
• Participating in interviews with key figures involved in the historical processes under study;
• Processing and organising the information gathered into databases;
• Assisting with the production of texts providing historical context for content to be made available online, and with the production of scientific papers and articles;
• Supporting the organisation and promotion of seminars and other activities carried out as part of the project;
• Verifying the research results ac