Gordon Milburn Research Fellow

Concerning the position

The College of Theology and Faith seeks to nominate to the Gordon Milburn Analysis Fellowship, which shall be held along side Campion Corridor.

This Fellowship is designed for a person with excellent potential who continues to be at an early stage of their tutorial profession. It is a fixed-term appointment for 3 years from 1 October 2024, or as quickly as potential thereafter.

You may be chargeable for devising, finishing up and managing your individual analysis challenge of superior analysis within the theological or philosophical examine of mysticism or non secular expertise, broadly interpreted, of any non secular custom. Additionally, you will contribute to analysis and instructing on the College of Theology and Faith.

You’ll have entry to a College analysis allowance, which is presently £1,500 every year.

This Fellowship is supported from a fund which was established to advertise the theological or the philosophical examine throughout the College of Oxford of mysticism and spiritual expertise in reminiscence of the writer and missionary Robert Gordon Milburn, vice-principal of Bishop’s Faculty, Calcutta, 1906-14, who died in 1968.

About you

You’ll maintain, or be near completion of, a postgraduate qualification (which might usually be a doctorate) in a related space of theological or philosophical examine of mysticism or non secular expertise, broadly interpreted, of any non secular custom. It is possible for you to to proof some expertise of analysis. The duties and expertise required are described in additional element within the additional particulars.

If, for any motive, you’ve gotten taken a profession break or have had an atypical profession and want to disclose this in your software, the choice committee will take this under consideration. The choice committee can even be conscious of the impression that the Covid-19 pandemic could have had on candidates’ careers because of further caring obligations or different elements.

Utility course of

Please submit your software on-line by way of the under hyperlink. You may be required to add a supporting assertion (setting out the way you meet the choice standards for the submit, utilizing examples of your expertise and expertise), curriculum vitae and a 500-word proposal on your analysis challenge.

The cut-off date for purposes is noon on Monday 22 April 2024.  Interviews are deliberate to be held within the week commencing Monday 13 Could 2024.