Postdoctoral Research Associate, 3 Year Fixed Term Contract

This put up is a part of a three-year funded venture entitled ‘Muslims, the Secular and Existential Threat’ which is funded by Templeton Faith Belief and led by Dr Caroline Tee. The venture will discover how Muslim communities have interaction questions of existential threat going through humanity within the twenty first century, drawing on comparative Anglophone and Francophone case research and integrating disciplinary views from Social Anthropology and Islamic Research (Theology). 

The post-holder will work as a part of a workforce of six researchers. They are going to design and perform prolonged ethnographic fieldwork in a Francophone European nation and can work with the broader venture workforce to analyse, write up, current, and disseminate the venture’s findings. 

The postholder will maintain a PhD in social anthropology or a intently associated self-discipline, with a deal with up to date Muslim societies. They are going to be a fluent French speaker with a superb familiarity with the social, spiritual, and political dimensions of contemporary France and/or Belgium. They are going to have expertise of designing and executing ethnographic fieldwork with Muslims and can have a powerful publication document within the subject of the anthropology of Islam.

We encourage functions from a various vary of candidates. 

Candidates could obtain additional particulars from our web site at www.chester.ac.uk/jobs/ and apply for the put up by way of our On-line Recruitment Web site quoting reference quantity NRA753.

Cut-off date: Monday twenty seventh November 2023.

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