Three Year Joint Pembroke-TORCH Career Development Fellowship

Pembroke College and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities invite applications for a joint Pembroke-TORCH Career Development Fellowship in ‘Women in the Humanities’.

This is a fixed-term appointment for three years. In addition to supporting outstanding early-career researchers who are working in any aspect of Women in the Humanities, the Fellowship aims to build an academic community of shared interests in the College. The duties and responsibilities of the posts are set out in the further particulars. The salary for this post will be in the range £32,277 to £35,256 per annum depending on experience and qualifications. 

Deadline for applications: 3^rd July 2015. For more information please visit: http://torch.ox.ac.uk/joint-pembroke-torch-fellowship

Call for Post-Doc Applications Asia Research Institute – National University of Singapore

The Religion and Globalization Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore has been awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to conduct a two-year research project on Religion and NGOs in Asia. We have just initiated a search for two post-docs who will work on the project full time. The job advert is below and it can also be accessed here: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/article_view.asp?id=2401. We are looking for candidates who have an outstanding doctoral degree in a related field (discipline open). While ideally candidates would have a background in both NGOs/development and religion (both broadly defined), we will also consider applications with strengths more in one area than the other. The research project focuses on Southeast and East Asia. The closing date for applications is 1 April 2015 and successful applicants will start working on the project in June, or as soon as possible after that.

Post-doc and PhD studentship on Leverhulme project 'Sounding Islam in China'

SOAS is delighted to announce two new full-time posts to work on the inter-disciplinary project 'Sounding Islam in China' which is hosted by the Department of Music at SOAS, University of London, and will run from Sept 2014-Sept 2017.

The project aims to provide new, ethnographically grounded research into the changing nature of Islamic belief and practice in contemporary China. The approach indicates a fieldwork-based approach to sound, experience and meaning, seeking to move beyond the habitual academic focus on text-based and visual narratives. The project will focus on sounded religious practices, including the call to prayer, Qur’anic recitation, prayers, sermons, life-cycle and calendrical rituals, and other forms of religious expressive culture, encompassing ‘live’ practices and the mediated transmission of religious sounds and ideologies.

For further information please follow the links below, or go to the SOAS website and check the scholarships and job vacancies sections, and email Rachel Harris (rh@soas.ac.uk).

Leverhulme - Research Studentship in the Department of Music - deadline 15 May 2014

Post-doctoral Research Position on the Leverhulme-funded Research Project: Sounding Islam in China - deadline 30 April 2014

Fellowship at St Anthony's college, Oxford

The College proposes to elect a Wai Seng Senior Research Scholar in Asia-Pacific Studies with effect from Michaelmas Term 2014. It is tenable at St Antony's College for two years and is open to all matriculated students of Oxford University working for a Doctor of Philosophy degree involving the study of the Asia-Pacific. Preference will be given to candidates whose research interests are focused on mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan, or on comparative Asian studies involving one of these territories.

Further particulars are available from the Administrator at the Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College Oxford OX2 6JF, e-mail: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk .