Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations

Politics & Worldwide Relations

Location:  Highfield Campus
Wage:   £34,980 to £42,978 Every year
Full Time Mounted Time period for twenty-four months
Closing Date:  Wednesday 21 February 2024
Interview Date:   Thursday 18 April 2024
Reference:  2597624CC

Be a part of a thriving analysis, schooling, and information change tradition

Functions are invited for 2 Analysis Fellows in Politics and Worldwide Relations to assist a significant enlargement supported by the College from 2023/24 onwards that may additional strengthen the thriving analysis, schooling and information change tradition of the Division of Politics and Worldwide Relations (PAIR) on the College of Southampton. The division has a world-leading popularity for its analysis in democratic governance and international political society, throughout areas comparable to political belief, democratic improvements, comparative politics, political psychology, environmental justice, international well being, migration, and growth. It has a robust popularity within the utility of cutting-edge analysis strategies, starting from political ethnography to experimental social science. 

PAIR is presently dwelling to a number of main UKRI and ERC grants, and hosts holders of British Academy Postdoctoral and Leverhulme Belief Early Profession Fellowships, and the Jean Monnet Chair in European Safety Governance. The College of Southampton is within the prime 1% of world Universities and one of many UK’s prime 15 analysis–intensive universities. It hosts the ESRC Nationwide Centre for Analysis Strategies and ESRC South Coast Doctoral Coaching Partnership.  

You’ll contribute to the planning, growth and writing of analysis funding functions, each independently and in collaboration with different researchers and analysis teams throughout the Division. You’ll reveal proof of analysis grant writing and funding looking for methods. We’re notably in search of candidates who can interact with and assist grant functions in current areas of analysis power: 

• Migration
• International well being
• Gender and illustration
• Democracy, governance and belief
• Political psychology
• Democratic improvements and digital politics
• Battle and safety

You’ll share our ambition for producing world-leading and agenda-setting analysis and securing main grants and fellowships from nationwide and worldwide funders, enjoying an energetic half in our educational neighborhood. You’ll share our aspirations to foster and keep a collegiate, supportive, and inclusive tradition of analysis and schooling. 

You’ll have an rising nationwide and worldwide popularity, publish in internationally main educational journals, and have proven willingness to have interaction in ‘information change’ that interprets your analysis into observe through coverage, civil society, media, or different types of exterior engagement.

The Faculty of Financial, Social and Political Sciences is dedicated to selling equality and variety and holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award demonstrating this dedication. We strongly encourage functions from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, individuals who establish as LGBTQ+, individuals with disabilities and people from poorer/much less educationally advantaged backgrounds.

As a part of our dedication to supporting our analysis neighborhood we’re open to versatile working. We give full consideration to candidates that want to work flexibly together with part-time and people who have taken a profession break. We are also proud to just lately have been awarded the Race high quality Constitution Bronze award, the place we have now been recommended for our dedication to enhance race equality throughout the College neighborhood.

For additional info, you’re welcome to contact the Head of Division of Politics & Worldwide Relations, Professor Pia Riggirozzi ([email protected] ), or the Affiliate Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Professor Will Jennings ([email protected] ).