Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present

Job title:

Postdoctoral Analysis Fellow: International Socio-Financial Rights, Native Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Current

Firm

College of Edinburgh

Job description

Job Description:UE07: £39,347 – £46,974 (The profitable candidate shall be appointed at £39,347)Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences/ Faculty of Historical past, Classics and Archaeology/ Historical pastFull time (35 hours per week)Fastened time period 1st October 2024 till thirtieth September 2027We’re in search of a postdoctoral analysis fellow to work on the AHRC-funded undertaking ‘International Socio-Financial Rights, Native Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Current’The Alternative:This publish is fixed-term and full-time (35 hours per week), from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2027.We’re in search of a extremely motivated {and professional} particular person to work on the AHRC -funded undertaking ‘International Socio-Financial Rights, Native Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Current’. The undertaking investigates how contemporaries for the reason that late nineteenth century, and particularly between the tip of the Second World Struggle and international financial downturn in 1973, have understood and expressed socio-economic rights: particularly, associated to work (or selecting to not work), to earn one’s personal cash and to take care of sure ‘residing requirements’. With a world perspective, it explores 4 related case research: the UK, Germany, Kenya and Tanzania. This undertaking means that work is central to understandings of social rights. It asks how concepts about and insurance policies on work-related rights have been articulated in numerous settings, over time, and subtle globally, by way of interpersonal and worldwide connections, new developments in worldwide regulation and altering experiences of and expectations in regards to the relationship between the financial system, society and the state. It additionally displays on the particular sociological contexts and connotations of concepts about rights associated to work, together with how girls, ethnic and non secular minorities, youngsters and the aged, have fitted into and formed discussions and insurance policies.The fieldwork for this publish shall be undertaken primarily in the UK, Kenya and Tanzania.Your abilities and attributes for fulfillment:

• a accomplished PhD in African Historical past, International Historical past or associated self-discipline which demonstrates analysis experience pertinent to this undertaking.
• confirmed experience within the historic analysis strategies required for the undertaking.
• demonstrated high quality of analysis efficiency.
• confirmed means to work independently and to satisfy deadlines.

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Anticipated wage

£39347 – 46974 per 12 months

Location

Edinburgh – Midlothian

Job date

Solar, 07 Apr 2024 01:34:37 GMT

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