Department: Geography
Vacancy ID: 044863
Closing Date: 23-Nov-2026
We are seeking a Research Assistant to contribute to two Research Ireland funded projects (HoStIr: Holocene Storminess in Ireland and PCARB: past carbon accumulation by Irish blanket bogs). The appointee will contribute to the analysis of core samples for both projects, including conducting loss-on-ignition, wet sieving, humification, macrofossil and testate amoebae analyses.
Peat cores from blanket bogs across Ireland have been collected as part of the HoStIr and PCARB projects. The HoStIr project is analysing these cores to develop new proxies for reconstructing past storminess and multi-millennial storminess reconstructions. The PCARB project cores are being analysed to reconstruct past changes in carbon accumulation rates and simultaneously developing palaeoecological records with which to better understand the past changes in carbon accumulation.
Research Assistant (Level 1) 2026 Salary Scale: €34,130 p.a. (1 point)
Closing Date:
23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Monday, 23rd November 2026
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified above. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system.
Late applications will not be accepted.
Maynooth University is an equal opportunities employer
The position is subject to the Statutes of the University
