School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Nurturing Tomorrow’s Leaders

The University of Greenwich is recruiting high-quality, independent early career research Fellows to partner existing research groups, who will develop their academic careers with us. Successful candidates will be appointed for a period of three years starting ideally no later than 1 April 2019. Subject to satisfying performance criteria and budgetary constraints, it is anticipated that these Fellows will transition into academic posts at the end of the Fellowship period.

Research Fellowship: Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science

Applied Sociology Research Group

Prof. Tracey Reynolds ([log in to unmask])

Based in the Applied Sociology Research Group, the Fellow will promote scholarship focused on grassroots and community activism, which is participatory, creative and arts-based. The research should involve inter-disciplinary collaborations between the social science disciplines of social policy, sociology, health and social work using applied, innovative and participatory action-based research methodologies. Applications are particularly welcome from early career scholars with a research interest on activism with marginalised and vulnerable social groups, for example young people, women, Black, migrant families, and low-income working class communities.

How to apply

The application process is a two-stage one; (1) it requires you to contact your host Faculty/Department to discuss your research aspirations, and to (2) also complete a formal online application. You will be required to supply a research grant proposal in the format of a discipline-specific UKRI application. 

• Contact Prof. Tracey Reynolds [log in to unmask]
• Complete the online, formal application form which will solicit your CV and a UKRI research proposal.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview, with representatives from the Faculty/Department and be chaired by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Enterprise). 

Interviews will be held in March/April 2019.

Further details:

https://jobs.gre.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=1902

To apply online: https://jobs.gre.ac.uk/Logon/?jobId=4650

Tracey Reynolds

Professor of Social Sciences

Chair of Faculty Research Ethics Committee/ School Director Research and Enterprise

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences

University of Greenwich

Telephone: +44(0)2083319752| E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Research Profile:

http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/ach/study/hpss/staff/tracey-reynolds

Research Profiles

http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/ach/study/hpss/staff/tracey-reynolds

https://gre.academia.edu/TraceyReynolds/Papers#

Twitter @TAReynolds12

Current project

Participatory Action Research (PAR): Participatory Theatre and Walking Methods' Potential for Co-producing knowledge, 2016-2018, (with Dr Umut Erel, Open University, PI and Prof Maggie O'Neill, University of York, funded by ESRC National Centre for Research Methods Grant Ref: ES/N012224/1

http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/pasar

Previous project

Migrant Mothers Caring for the Future (funded by
AHRC) with Umut Erel, Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/migrant-mothers/

Youth matters: Participatory arts as a creative space for young people’s social explorations', http://www.bathwaytheatrenetwork.co.uk/youth-matters/4593691219​

Latest Articles:

Reynolds, T; Erel, U and Kaptani, E (2018) Migrant mothers: Performing kin work and belonging across private and public boundaries, ‘Families, Relationships and Societies’, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674318X15233476441573 (open access)

Elisabetta Zontini and Tracey Reynolds (2018) 'Mapping the role of ‘transnational family habitus’ in the lives of young people and children, Global Network http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12185/epdf

Umut Erel, Tracey Reynolds and Erene Kaptani  (2017) 'Migrant mothers’ creative interventions into racialized citizenship' Ethnic and Racial Studies http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1317825 (open access)

Umut Erel, Tracey Reynolds, Erene Kaptani  (2017) Participatory theatre for transformative social research, Qualitative Research http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468794117696029 (open access)

Umut Erel, Maggie O'Neill, Tracey Reynolds, Erene Kaptani  (2017) Crisis Upon Crisis: Migrant families with No Recourse to Public Funds, 'Discover Society', Issue no. 44 http://discoversociety.org/2017/05/02/crisis-upon-crisis-migrant-families-with-no-recourse-to-public-funds/

Reynolds, T and Zontini, E (2015) Transnational and diasporic youth identities: exploring conceptual themes and future research agendas, Identities; Global Studies in Power and Culture, DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2015.1024129 http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/fZJg4ZkYhKWWsajbZKV6/full

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