Fastened-term for 30 months
Abstract:
We’re looking for to recruit a Analysis Affiliate (PDRA) for the venture ‘Transcontinental City Citizenship (TRUCIT): Disaster & Connection in Britain and Somalia.’ That is a part of a 3-year ESRC-funded analysis venture specializing in the experiences of multigenerational Somali communities in Bristol, Sheffield and London. It examines how their expertise of city life within the UK pertains to altering transcontinental networks and developments inside Somalia itself. If profitable in making use of for this place, you’ll play an important position within the venture when it comes to information assortment, evaluation and writing-up, managing relationships with Somali group organisations within the three cities and delivering the broader societal and coverage affect of the analysis.
Latest years have revealed the depth of inequality in UK cities, together with in relation to race and unequal entry to the elusive id of ‘Britishness’ within the context of polarized attitudes in direction of migration, asylum and the UK’s imperial previous. The expertise of Somali diaspora throws these points into sharp aid. The UK Somali expertise sits on the intersection of native and world challenges, reflecting up to date questions of race, refuge and unequal citizenship within the context of problematic concepts of ‘integration’. The lives of UK Somali communities are additionally typically extremely transcontinental, with patterns of funding and political engagement within the ‘homeland’, and the thought of ‘return’, shaping their relationship with the UK and the British state. The Somali expertise of life in UK cities is thus intimately related to improvement processes in Somalia, and vice versa. This venture will analyse these intersections. It frames the British Somali expertise of city citizenship in relation to the various ‘faces’ of Britain each regionally and globally, by way of analysis in three very totally different cities that illustrate various features of the UK’s city political geography and have totally different roles in Somali migration histories: Sheffield, Bristol and London borough of Camden.
This place is a full time, fixed-term place for two.5 years (30 months). They may play an important position within the venture, when it comes to information assortment, managing relationships with Somali group organisations within the three cities, evaluation and writing-up. We’re searching for somebody with a PhD in City Research, Geography, Migration Research, Anthropology, Sociology or associated fields, and with expertise in qualitative analysis strategies and qualitative evaluation. The important thing analysis strategies will likely be life historical past interviews and different types of semi-structured interviews, inter-generational focus group discussions, and the usage of solicited diaries (together with audio diaries) to generate wealthy information on on a regular basis life.
The Division of City Research and Planning (www.sheffield.ac.uk/usp ) is among the largest and most thriving city research and planning faculties, not solely within the UK however globally, acknowledged within the newest UK Authorities Analysis Excellence Framework in 2014 as the highest planning faculty within the nation.
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