Hi all,
This opportunity may be of interest. If you're interested, please contact Rachel Brooks.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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Subject: Two 5-year research fellow posts - EuroStudents project
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Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Surrey
Post-doctoral Research Fellows (2 x 5-year posts, starting on 1st August 2016)
Salary: up to £33,574 per year
The Department of Sociology invites applications for two post-doctoral research fellows to join the five-year ‘EuroStudents’ project, funded by the European Research Council (see www.eurostudents.net<http://www.eurostudents.net> for further details). The project will explore the different ways in which higher education students are constructed across six European nations.
The first research fellow post will be responsible for the strand of work that focuses on institutional perspectives, i.e. the ways in which the higher education student is constructed through official university texts and staff understandings. S/he will be required to: liaise with relevant gatekeepers to secure access to research sites across six European countries; analyse websites and other public documents produced by universities (using both qualitative and quantitative methods); conduct and analyse interviews with members of university staff; and contribute to the analysis of data and dissemination of findings from the project as a whole.
The second post will be responsible for the strand of work that focuses on student perspectives. S/he will be required to: liaise with relevant gatekeepers to secure access to research sites across six European countries; conduct focus groups with students in three universities in each of the six countries; and contribute to the analysis of data and dissemination of findings from the project as a whole.
The successful candidates will have a doctorate in a relevant topic area, and experience of conducting document analysis and qualitative interviews. They will also have excellent organisation and communication skills and, ideally, knowledge of one or more of the languages covered by the project (in addition to English): Danish, German, Polish and Spanish. A willingness to travel abroad for a substantial proportion of the fieldwork is essential.
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Closing date: 5pm, 6th June 2016
Interviews: 20th June 2016
Start date: 1st August 2016 (or as soon as possible thereafter)
Further details and the online application form for the first post can be found at https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=031716 and for the second post at https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=031616 Please do apply for both, if you are interested in both.
Rachel Brooks
Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology
Executive Editor, British Journal of Sociology of Education
University of Surrey
Guildford
GU2 7XH
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New ‘EuroStudents’ research project: www.eurostudents.net<http://www.eurostudents.net>
Latest article: Brooks, R., Byford, K. and Sela, K (2015) The spaces of UK students’ unions: extending the critical geographies of the university campus<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2015.1089585>, Social and Cultural Geography, 17, 4, 471-490.
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