Full Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Working as part
of a multi-disciplinary team, you will develop your own programme of
research with the Somali diaspora in the UK as a postdoctoral Senior
Research Assistant on the British Academy-funded project, Desert
Disorders. You will be responsible for developing the multilingual
project website, for developing a podcast as part of the project's
podcast series, and will have the opportunity to share your research
through the project conference and workshops.
This
is a fixed-term post for nine months.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Desert Disorders:
Comparative Approaches to Asian and East African Desert Regions, is
led by Professor Katherine Baxter, in collaboration with Professor
Deborah Sutton (Lancaster University) and Professor Farhana Ibrahim
(IIT Delhi). The project takes a comparative, global perspective on
deserts and arid regions as spaces of perceived ‘disorder’ and uses
literary, historical and ethnographic methodologies to explore and
explain the imperial and postcolonial anxieties that such regions, and
their inhabitants, provoked. The project aims to recover alternative,
possibly resistive, forms of sovereignty established in desert and
arid contexts, which exist beyond the conditions of normative state
and citizenship regimes.
This Research Project is being
delivered within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences. You
will join the PI's home department, Humanities. The multidisciplinary
Humanities department brings together 80 academic staff and 800
students across English Studies, History and Music. From this base you
will have the opportunity to engage with colleagues across the Faculty
and beyond through our Interdisciplinary Research Themes (IDRTs) and
interdisciplinary research groups. The Faculty has particular
strengths in colonial and postcolonial studies, with an exciting
ecology of funded research projects and PhD students.
For more
information about the Humanities Department, please visit:
ABOUT
YOU
We seek to appoint a candidate
who will make a strong contribution to our project through work with
the Somali diaspora in the UK. You will hold a PhD or equivalent in
Social Anthropology or a related discipline. Preference will be given
to candidates with Somali-language skills.
Further
information about the requirements of the role is available in the person specification .
If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please
contact Professor Katherine Baxter:
To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'
. Your application should include a covering letter, a CV
and a writing sample (published or unpublished; 12,000 words max.).
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