Fully funded PhD opportunity for students interested in youth, family, race, ethnicity and religion, University of Southampton
The role of extended family in the construction of young people’s racial/religious identity affiliations: A temporal, mixed methods study
Increasing diversity and mixedness in relation to both ethnicity and religion, along with household forms, raise questions about the production of difference and belonging in families. This studentship provides an opportunity for an innovative piece of research, investigating how racial/ethnic and religious identity affiliations of young people are shaped over time and through inter- and intra- generational contacts, using secondary analysis of longitudinal household panel data and associated primary qualitative data collection and analysis.
The studentship has the potential to key into, and throw light on, wider debates about processes and options for ethnic/racial and religious assertions and ascription among mono and mixed race and religion young people, transmission of racial/ethnic and religious identities, family cultures and generational change, cosmopolitanism and marginalisation, transnationalism and localism. The research also has the potential to address the theorisation of time as complex and multifaceted through bringing together the extensive context of ‘long’ chronological time with habitual/continuous and intense/discrete family-based events.
The studentship will be supervised by Professor Rosalind Edwards and Dr. Bindi Shah (experts in family, race, ethnicity, religion and youth) who welcome informal enquiries and requests for further details (email [log in to unmask]). We are looking for applicants with a basic training in and understanding of both quantitative methods of data analysis and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, as well as an interest in youth studies, racial/ethnic studies and/or religion studies.
See: https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76546
Closing date: 9.8.16
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