Hi everyone,
I'd be grateful if the following job opportunity could be circulated to any potential candidates.
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BEC934/postdoctoral-researcher/
This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding researcher at doctoral or postdoctoral level to work on a Wellcome Trust funded research project ‘Prepping For Health Autonomy in the Face of Catastrophe: Examining the Imagined and Material Spaces of Survivalism in The UK’. This project investigates the decision-making, skill development and information seeking behaviour of individuals in the UK actively preparing for future catastrophic events, in order to understand responses to environmental futures, spaces of imagined state absence and associated concepts of self-reliance and ‘resourcefulness’.
The successful applicant will be involved in conducting ethnography within survivalist/prepping communities and with individuals in the UK, which may entail analysis of online communities, indepth interviews and participation in survival training courses.
You will be required to travel to the research sites. You will have research facilities and library access in London (Birkbeck) and will be required to attend meetings in London and/or Manchester, with flexibility for skype meetings.
The minimum requirements for selection are listed below:
PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant subject area, or evidence that PhD is near to completion.
This post is part time, 14 hours per week (0.4 FTE) and fixed term for 15 months starting on 8 January 2018 and completing on 31 March 2019.
The closing date for completed applications is midnight 25th September 2017. Interviews are likely to be held in the week beginning 9th October 2017
Informal enquires on the role are encouraged and can be made by email to Dr. Kezia Barker, Department of Geography, [log in to unmask]
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BEC934/postdoctoral-researcher/
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