Tag: UK

U York: Research Fellow (UK)

“JobResearch Fellow, University of York, York, England, UK. Deadline: 30 August 2024.

The University of York wishes to recruit a fulltime, 27-month Research Associate to conduct research into the political dynamics of local vaccine manufacturing in South East Asia under the supervision of Dr Peg Murray-Evans. They are looking for an excellent candidate trained in the social sciences, with expertise in at least one of the following: (1) the political economy of global trade and production; (2) the politics of global health; (3) political economy/public policy in South East Asia. Knowledge of the pharmaceutical sector and/or vaccine manufacturing will also be an advantage.

The post holder will be part of a team working with Dr Murray-Evans as part of the UK-South East Asia Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part of the UK Vaccine Network (UKVN).

In addition to the Vaccine Hub team, you will join a strong and vibrant postdoctoral community in the Department of Politics and International Relations. You will be given the opportunity to bring your own research interests to the project and your career trajectory will be supported through mentoring, peer support and professional development and training. The post is available from 1 January 2025.

Fordham U: Senior Director, Fordham London (UK)

“JobSenior Director of Fordham University London, Fordham University, London, England, UK. Deadline: 16 August 2024.

Fordham University is seeking an outstanding leader for the post of Senior Director of Fordham London. Continuing its 40-year tradition of providing international education in London, Fordham London’s new global campus in the city’s Clerkenwell neighbourhood is a symbol of the University’s commitment to education abroad and a furtherance of its mission beyond New York. At the heart of Fordham London is an inclusive learning environment which fosters intercultural competence and prepares undergraduate and graduate students to thrive in an increasingly multicultural, global society.

London is the classroom in which undergraduate study abroad students from Fordham and other colleges and universities explore subjects from new perspectives and in a unique setting. The 2023-24 academic year saw Fordham London set an annual enrolment record with over 550 students during the fall, spring and summer semesters.

Beyond its premier undergraduate study abroad programmes, Fordham London is host to short-term graduate programmes, a community of international research scholars, and is actively planning to increase and enhance its undergraduate and graduate presence in London.

As Senior Director, you will serve as the Chief Administrative Officer of Fordham London and hold primary responsibility for identifying, implementing and articulating a future vision for the institution. You will be a leader in international higher education and provide visible advocacy on behalf of Fordham London to both internal and external constituencies and audiences.

With significant administrative experience at the university level, and proven leadership, you will advance the nature and reputation of Fordham London and provide academic programming reflecting Fordham’s mission of educating students to lead and serve in an increasingly multicultural and multinational society. You will also advocate in the areas of governance, academic standards, curricular development, research and pedagogy, academic facilities and operations and mission integration in collaboration with Fordham’s global community.

The successful candidate will have the ability work effectively and collaboratively with individuals from all backgrounds to promote diversity, equity and inclusion and effect positive change within Fordham University and society.

U Winchester: Reconciliation & Peacebuilding (UK)

“JobLecturer in Reconciliation and Peacebuilding, University of Winchester, Winchester, England, UK. Deadline: 14 August 2024.

The University is seeking a new Lecturer to teach and coordinate an MA programme in Reconciliation and Peacebuilding. The successful applicant will have a strong academic and professional background in reconciliation / peace studies and have competence in digital teaching and learning methods.

Delivered primarily online, the MA Reconciliation / Reconciliation and Peacebuilding programme supports the advanced study of contemporary theoretical and practical approaches to reconciliation and peacebuilding, with a particular emphasis on religious and cultural contexts. The programme enables students to engage profoundly in key methods of reconciliation and religious peacebuilding through reflection and analysis of relevant theories, case studies, and examples of best practice.

Taught modules include Theories and Dynamics of Reconciliation, Dialogue and Disagreement, and Practical Bridge-building. This role will also include the supervision of dissertation projects.

U Birmingham: Stuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair (UK)

“JobStuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair, School of Social Policy and Society, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Deadline: 8 September 2024.

The University of Birmingham is seeking to appoint the inaugural Stuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair. While the substantive field and disciplinary background of the post holder is open, it is anticipated that the appointee will be inspired by the work of Professor Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) and have a clear and inspiring vision of how the legacy of that work can be enhanced and developed for the future. Areas that might be relevant here include race and racism, ethnicity, gender, migration, media, representation, history, visual culture, and/or other contemporary cultural issues.

You will be able to demonstrate a world-leading research programme evidenced through high quality and influential publications and a track record of research grant capture. You will be able to lead and support a growing team of colleagues across the University in this field to consolidate and develop the University’s education offer around contemporary cultural studies.

The Chair will be based in the School of Social Policy and Society, in the College of Social Sciences. They partner with the College of Life and Environmental Sciences and the College of Arts and Law to host the Stuart Hall Archive Project, a 3-year research programme (ending July 2026), directly funded by the University of Birmingham, supporting three PIs, two researchers, and an archivist, to use Hall’s papers held by the University’s archive – the Cadbury Research Library. The project has two main aims: to explore the history of Hall’s intellectual and political formation and development at specific conjunctures; and to forge a new space for dialogue between Hall’s intellectual and political legacy and contemporary questions arising from present constituencies and communities. In addition to the development of forums and events for collaboration with external partners, researchers, artists, and community activists, the Project is committed to a range of outputs (exhibitions, publications, and online resources and platforms) and the identification of external funding opportunities for expansion and extension of the project. In addition, the University holds the archive of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.

Urban Studies Foundation: International Fellowships for the Global South (UK)

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International Fellowships for urban scholars from the Global South, Urban Studies Foundation, Glasgow, UK. Deadline: 6 July 2024.

Applications are invited to the USF’s International Fellowships for urban scholars from the Global South. Each award will cover the cost of a visiting sabbatical period at a host university of the candidate’s choice, for the purpose of writing-up the candidate’s existing research findings in the form of publishable articles and/or a book. The proposed work should be completed under the guidance of a chosen mentor in the candidate’s field of study. Funding is available for a period ranging between 3-9 months, and eligible research may cover any theme pertinent to a better understanding of urban realities in the Global South.

Applicants must be early-to-mid career urban scholars holding a PhD awarded within the preceding 10 years (by the submission deadline) who currently work in a university or other research institution within the Global South. Candidates must also be nationals of a country in the Global South, defined as any country on the present OECD list of ODA recipients (2024-2025).

 

King’s College London: Social Justice (UK)

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Lecturer in Social Justice, Department of Education, Communication & Society, King’s College London, England. Deadline: 19 May 2024.

The Department of Education, Communication & Society is seeking to recruit a social science scholar with teaching and research interests in anthropology, sociology, social policy or a closely allied field to teach on our BA Social Sciences and other programmes as appropriate and to conduct high quality research. They will have interests and a track record that enable them to convene Political Activism and Social Change and Rethinking Work, which are optional modules on the BA Social Sciences. They will be a member of the friendly and vibrant Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) within the School of Education, Communication and Society, which is a School in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy. Ideally, they will have interests that strengthen the existing programmes of work in CPPR. For example, candidates may have particular expertise in race and racism, decoloniality, or inequalities of gender, class, sexuality or disability.

Mingshi Cui Profile

Profiles

Mingshi Cui earned her PhD in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester in the UK. She holds an MA in Intercultural and International Communication.

Mingshi CuiHer research interests include material culture studies, intercultural communication, and digital humanities. Drawing upon her previous educational and working experiences, she is particularly interested in examining how to facilitate cross-cultural understanding in museums, so that audiences and the museum professionals alike could better engage with the museum collections and empathize with their originating communities that had experienced histories of disempowerments.

Mingshi’s current research project explores the potential of creating a digital object biography for the displaced object in a way that unveils its multi-layered interpretations and values.

Selected publications:

Cui, M. (2022). The role of digital platforms in enriching the narration of displaced objects [数字化平台在丰富流失文物叙述方面的运用]. Science Education and Museums [上海科技与博物馆], 8(1), 7-12.

Cui, M., & Vavoula, G. (2021). Digital platforms as facilitators of dialogic co-creation of displaced object biographies [Digitale Plattformen als Vermittler von dialogischer Ko-Kreation verdrängter Objektbiografien]. Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy [Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik], 7(1), 43-58.

Du, J., & Cui, M. (2021). Intercultural dialogues in third spaces: A study of learning experiences of museum visitors. Journal of Transcultural Communication, 1(1), 79-101.

Work for CID:
Mingshi Cui co-authored a guest post on Museums as Third Spaces for Intercultural Dialogue, as well as writing one on Reflections on the object diasporas in museums; in addition, she has translated KC38: Boundary Objects, KC65: Conflict Transformation, and KC103: Geoculture into Simplified Chinese.

U Southampton: Politics & International Relations (UK)

“JobMultiple positions in Politics and International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations, Highfield campus, University of Southampton, UK. Deadline: 5 April 2024.

Applications are invited for multiple positions at the level of Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor in Politics and International Relations as part of a major expansion supported by the University during 2023/24 and 2024/25 that will further strengthen the thriving research, education and knowledge exchange culture of the Department of Politics and International Relations (PAIR) at the University of Southampton. The department has a world-leading reputation for its research in democratic governance and global political society, across areas such as political trust, democratic innovations, comparative politics, political psychology, environmental justice, global health, migration, and development. It has a strong reputation in the application of cutting-edge research methods, ranging from political ethnography to experimental social science.

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U Oxford: International Relations (UK)

“JobAssociate Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, England, UK. Deadline: 26 March 2024.

The Department of Politics and International Relations in association with Exeter College are recruiting to the post of Associate Professor of International Relations to start from 1 September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications are welcome from both early career and established scholars in any sub-field of international relations. However, the Department has particular needs at present in historical international relations, the international relations of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Russia and the Post-Soviet space, international law, and the international politics of the environment.

The successful candidate will be required to carry out advanced research in the field and to develop courses and provide teaching and supervision to undergraduate and graduate students; they will be expected to provide and organize undergraduate teaching for one or more of the Department’s undergraduate papers in International Relations; to contribute to the core paper of the MPhil in International Relations; to supervise graduate students in the Department’s MPhil and DPhil programmes in International Relations; to deliver undergraduate tutorial or small-group teaching in Exeter College; and to participate in academic administration, examining and assessment, the admission of students to the Department and College, and in the governance of the Department and the College.

The post will be held in conjunction with a Tutorial Fellowship at Exeter College.

De Montfort U: International Politics (UK)

“JobLecturer in International Politics, De Montfort University, Leicester, England, UK. Deadline: 3 March 2024.

The Faculty of Art Design and Humanities is looking for someone to teach and lead on a range of modules in International Politics, with specific expertise around global inequalities, as well as issues focussing on democracy, to undergraduate and postgraduate students. This will involve the preparation and delivery of lectures and other classes, as well as supervising dissertations, and the associated marking and administrative roles in such a post.

You will be working as part of a team in the delivery of the teaching of politics and international relations. Within this team, there is a strong research ethos which informs and underpins that teaching.