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Subject: SOCREL Digest - 14 Jul 2015 to 15 Jul 2015 (#2015-6)
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Topics of the day:
1. Research Post - SOAS - AHRC / ESRC Islam on Campus Project
2. Research Assistant, Public Faith and Finance
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:03:36 +0000
From: "HUTCHINGS T.B." <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Research Post - SOAS - AHRC / ESRC Islam on Campus Project
Message sent on behalf of Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (University of Derby).
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Dear Colleagues,
Please see link for early career research post, to be part of a 3 year AHRC / ESRC funded project that will examine narratives of Islam on campus.
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALN850/postdoctoral-researcher/
(if link does not work when you click on it, please copy-paste it into your browser address bar)
Many thanks,
Sariya
Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
Research Fellow in Faith and Education
College of Education
Kedleston Road | Derby | DE22 1GB
Tel: 01332 591558 | Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sariya_CC
Web Officer: British Association for Islamic studies (www.brais.ac.uk<http://www.brais.ac.uk>)
Please click (http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1708&context=jiws) to read a review of my book Muslim Women in Britain: Demystifying the Muslimah
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 20:06:13 +0000
From: Stephen Jones <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Research Assistant, Public Faith and Finance
Dear SocRel members,
Please
find details below of a new full-time
fixed-term (8 month) Research Assistant position at the University of
Bristol, working on the research project, 'Public Faith and Finance':
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=3479&nPostingTargetID=12579&option=28&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&LOV4=8100&LOV3=8494&Resultsperpage=10&lg=UK&mask=uobext
The closing date for applications is 27 July. Feel free to share among your networks, and direct any queries to the PI, Dr Therese O’Toole: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Kind regards,
Stephen Jones
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A Research Assistant
position is available in the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and
Citizenship, in the School of Sociology, Politics and International
Studies, at the University of Bristol.
The successful applicant will join a research team working on the project ‘Public Faith and Finance,
funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, led by Dr Therese O’Toole (PI,
University of Bristol) and Dr Stephen Jones (CI, Newman University).
Public faith and finance is an 8-month project examining
the role that faith organisations are playing in the development of
alternative approaches to finance provision, and explores the
contribution they make to building sustainable and socially just
economic systems in three areas:
Campaigning with the aim of creating a more sustainable and/or
socially just financial sector (e.g., improving regulation of financial
services);Advocacy of alternative financial systems (e.g., Islamic finance);Involvement in the provision of financial products and support
(e.g., credit unions and other forms of microfinance, financial literacy
services or debt counselling).
The successful applicant will support the research project in a number of ways, with the primary responsibilities being:
Working with faith-based organisations and networks to disseminate project aims;Conducting an online survey of faith-based organisations’ activities;Developing and conducting case-studies of faith-based activism on
finance issues (involving interviews and documentary analysis with case
study organisations);Organising and publicising an event on faith-based organisations and the financial sector;Contributing to the drafting and writing of a project report and findings and dissemination activities.
The position is 100% fte and will run from 1st September 2015 to 30th April 2016.
The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 27 July 2015. Interviews will be held very shortly after this date.
For any questions please email: Dr Therese O’Toole: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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