Researcher-in-residence at the KB

If you’re starting a career in the sciences and want to use our digital collection for research, why not become a researcher-in-residence at the KB? You can use our databases and collaborate with our Digital Humanities team. The team consists of research software engineers, programmers and collection experts from the Research and Collection Knowledge departments.

Since 2014, the KB has been inviting budding scientists to conduct research using tools and datasets from the online KB Lab. Scientists will work on their own research using data collections from large digitisation projects, e.g. from historical newspapers. Together with KB employees, they develop digital techniques that can provide answers to their research question. In order to attract foreign researchers, the KB Lab is largely written in English.

As a researcher, you will work on solutions for specific questions with the support of our programmers and content experts. In turn, we learn from your wishes and methods and can thereby improve our services. What are the wishes of the researcher? What methods does he/she use? This is a mutually beneficial collaboration between the researchers and the KB.

The results (tools and datasets) will also be available in the KB Lab for other researchers, who can use and possibly expand on it. While working at the KB, the researchers-in-residence share their experiences via a blog.

You can submit a proposal every year with which you have a chance to become a researcher-in-residence at the KB. More information about the call for proposals can be found via 'news' on the KB Lab website.

View the list of current and previous researchers-in-residence here. 

Interested in working as a researcher-in residence but still have questions? Check out our FAQ.