Diaspora: 2 positions, UK
11/6/08
FYI
Elisabeth
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Research Assistant
School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/TP622/Research_Assistant/
Ref: 08/100458
This post is available for a period of twelve months. The research objectives are to analyse how divided
cities in Europe and the Middle East have been shaped by ethnic, religious and national conflicts, and
conversely, how such cities can absorb, resist and potentially play a role in transforming the territorial
conflicts which pervade and surround them.
Informal enquires about the post may be made to Professor Madeleine Leonard, [log in to unmask], telephone
028 90563375
Interviews will be held week commencing 11 August 2008.
Salary scale: £23,692 - £30,013, per annum Closing date: 4.00pm, Friday 27 June 2008
Please visit our website for further information and to apply online - www.qub.ac.uk/ jobs or alternatively
contact the Personnel Department, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN. Telephone (028) 90973044 or (028)
90973854 (answering machine). FAX: (028) 90971040 or e-mail on [log in to unmask]
The University is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit. It therefore welcomes
applications from all sections of society and particularly welcomes applications from people with a disability.
Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular
circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.
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Welsh Medium Postgraduate Scholarship: Religious Studies School of Theology and Religious Studies
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/FI165/Welsh_Medium_Postgraduate_Scholarship_Religious_Studies/
The School of Theology and Religious Studies is offering a Welsh medium postgraduate scholarship in Religious
Studies, sponsored by the Welsh Medium National Development Scheme, to commence on 1st October 2008.
Funding is available for up to five years, including three or four years as a doctoral research student and an
additional year as a teaching fellow. The postgraduate scholarship will cover the cost of university tuition
fees (at the Home/EU rate of £3300 for 2008/9) and will provide a maintenance grant of £12600 per year (with a
further increase pending). Applications are invited from potential researchers in the field of Religious
Studies, which can include sociological, anthropological, historical, psychological or philosophical
perspectives on the study of religion. The successful candidate will also be required to undertake some Welsh
medium teaching for the School as a condition of the award.
The School of Theology and Religious Studies is part of the University's College of Arts and Humanities. It
has seven full-time academic members of staff who teach and research in a wide variety of areas: Old
Testament, New Testament, Modern Church History, Theology and Contemporary Culture, Pentecostal Theology,
Philosophy of Religion, Study of Religions. Details of the research interests of individual members of staff,
and of the undergraduate and postgraduate courses currently offered by the School, can be found at
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/trs.
The successful applicant will:
uate qualification in a relevant field. The individual must be a graduate of a recognised institution of
higher education or an undergraduate expecting to graduate before 31 July 2008. Other qualifications may be
considered only exceptionally.
further training to improve their competence to teach through the medium of Welsh. The holder of the award may
be in a position to undertake research and present the thesis through the medium of Welsh, but this is not a
requirement of the Scheme.
search within the period of the award.
Religious Studies; he/she will be expected to offer an outline of the questions or problems to be addressed
and of the methods to be used in the thesis.
from the second year onwards. During the additional year, which will take the form of a fellowship, the
successful candidate will be required to develop new provision as well as continuing the minimum five hours of
teaching expected after the first year.
Applicants should send a CV, the names and addresses of two referees familiar with their academic work, and a
statement (in Welsh, max. 1000
words) outlining their proposed research topic to: Dr Robert Pope, Head of the School of Theology and
Religious Studies, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG (email: [log in to unmask] ac.uk; tel. 01248
382079).
The closing date for applications is 16 June, and we aim to inform our selected candidate by the beginning of
July. The School may decide to interview candidates for this scholarship as part of its selection process.
For further information, please contact Dr Catrin Williams (email:
[log in to unmask]).
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