Gordon Milburn Research Fellow

In regards to the function

The School of Theology and Faith seeks to nominate to the Gordon Milburn Analysis Fellowship, which will probably 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. This can be a fixed-term appointment for 3 years from 1 October 2024, or as quickly as potential thereafter.

You may be answerable for devising, finishing up and managing your personal analysis mission 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 School of Theology and Faith.

You should have entry to a School analysis allowance, which is at the moment £1,500 every year.

This Fellowship is supported from a fund which was established to advertise the theological or the philosophical examine inside the College of Oxford of mysticism and spiritual expertise in reminiscence of the creator and missionary Robert Gordon Milburn, vice-principal of Bishop’s School, 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 abilities required are described in additional element within the additional particulars.

If, for any cause, you might have taken a profession break or have had an atypical profession and want to disclose this in your software, the choice committee will take this into consideration. The choice committee may even be conscious of the affect that the Covid-19 pandemic might have had on candidates’ careers on account of extra caring obligations or different components.

Software 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 abilities and expertise), curriculum vitae and a 500-word proposal in your analysis mission.

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