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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, KC103: Geoculture, and KC102: Inclusive Communication  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.

UK Council for International Student Affairs: Communications Manager (UK)

“JobCommunications Manager, UK Council for International Student Affairs, London, UK. Deadline: 5 February 2024.

The Communications Manager leads on the delivery of UKCISA’s communications to members, international students, and other stakeholders, across the UKCISA and #WeAreInternational brands. This role is responsible for delivering, shaping and evaluating a communications strategy for the organisation and increasing engagement with key audiences. Additionally, this role will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to ensure consistent branding and communications across UKCISA’s outputs and services. Core responsibilities include: Digital and social media, Website content, Brand, and Marketing.

CRASSH: Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South 2024-5 (UK)

FellowshipsVisiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South: Religious Boundaries, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK. Deadline: 25 February 2024.

The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge is inviting applications for funded Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South. The purpose of these Fellowships is to provide opportunities for scholars working at higher education institutions in the Global South to exchange ideas with other researchers based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the University of Cambridge and to draw benefit from access to the University’s collections and resources. It is hoped that these visits will lead on to future collaborations and exchanges.

For 2025, CRASSH will partner with the Faculty of Divinity and the Cambridge Interfaith Programme. Applications are invited from scholars whose research is connected to the theme of inter-religious relations, with a particular focus on religious boundary-making. This invites projects that study how two or more religious groups form one another in their mutual encounter, when and how they demarcate difference, and how boundaries between them remain mutable through various activities of exchange such as dialogue or missionary endeavours. The call also welcomes projects that are interested in how religious boundary-constructions relate to other articulations of identity, such as ethnicity, class, politics, or gender.

They invite applications from any discipline, including anthropology, history, philosophy, political science, sociology and theology. Projects should aim to advance current understandings of interfaith conflict and dialogue through concrete case studies of religious boundary-making or ideas about them, situated in the Global South.

There are other visiting fellowships possible at CRASSH, but they must be self-funded.

King’s College London: International Relations (UK)

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Reader in International Relations, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, England. Deadline: 30 January 2024.

The Department of War Studies seeks to appoint a Reader in International Relations in order to contribute to the Department’s teaching and research capacity. The Department is looking for a candidate with a strong research and teaching background in International Relations theory, broadly defined. The successful candidate will have a track record of high-quality publications, research funding and innovative teaching in the field of International Relations. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to both compulsory and optional teaching in the department at both BA and MA levels. In particular, the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the leadership and teaching of the Department’s MA degree in International Relations and should have the background and research interests commensurate with leading a large post-graduate programme that explores International Relations from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

The Department has a large, diverse IR faculty, with particular research focus on security, technology, violence, ethics, gender, migration and borders. They are a theoretically and methodologically diverse Department, including key strengths in critical approaches and methodologies. They welcome applications from candidates whose research contributes to or expands these research areas from a range of perspectives. In addition, applicants must have experience in supervising doctoral research students.

Loughborough U: International Student Experience Officer (UK)

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International Student Experience Officer, Student Services,
Loughborough University, England, UK. Deadline: 21 January 2024.

Loughborough University is looking for an international student experience officer to join their growing International Student Experience team, whose focus is to ensure a sector-leading experience for international students at Loughborough University. This role will provide innovative and creative project support to the team and will work with colleagues across the University to ensure a positive transition and experience for international students.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with a strong background in project and events management and a passion to support the international student experience and help them to feel at home. Applicants should have an understanding of working interculturally as well experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes of projects.