英国罗汉普顿大学博士后职位–人文与社会科学院

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Roehampton London

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Offerd Salary:£38,141

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Contract Type:Fixed term for 30 mo

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Job title

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Job reference

RU03565

Date posted

09/12/2022

Application closing date

16/01/2023

Salary

£38,141 pa inclusive of London Weighting Allowance

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Job category/type

Academic/Research

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Job description

Department: School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Full time: 1.0 FTE, Fixed term for 30 months Closing date: 16 January 2023  Interview date: 24 January 2023 Job description/person specification Advert

Main purpose of the job:

Andy Kesson (he/ him, English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton) and Sandra Nelson (they/them, Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex) have won a project grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the research project, ‘Diverse Alarums: centering marginalised communities in the contemporary performance of early modern plays’. They are now seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the project with them.

In joining this project, the Postdoctoral Research Fellow will contribute to and benefit from the full range of its research and creative work. Diverse Alarums will use a unique combination of methods to bring together and contribute to early modern studies, practice-as-research, audience studies, qualitative research, trans, queer, disability and critical race studies. It stages an extraordinarily important but largely forgotten early modern English play, John Lyly’s Galatea, thereby offering contemporary performers and audiences an unparalleled affirmative and intersectional demographic, exploring queer, transgender, disabled and migrant lives in a cast of characters that includes very few cisgender adult males and a plot that builds towards the celebration of a queer and trans marriage. The play has almost no stage history since 1588, and is only starting to be better known amongst academics and students, largely because of the work and work-in-progress of members of this project.

The project will stage a high-profile, two-week production of the play in collaboration with the director Emma Frankland, Marlborough Productions and WildWorks, bringing together early modern and contemporary research with our practitioners’ creative work. It will work with our performers and audiences to investigate how the contemporary performance of early modern plays might become opportunities for vital community-building, and work with an additional group of artists to co-create work that responds to the production. The project will result in a number of international conference presentations, publications and a seminar series, and the Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be able to contribute to all of these outputs. These include an edition of the play that provides John Lyly’s text, the production’s spoken script and the production’s British Sign Language script.

The interdisciplinary nature of the project means that applicants might come from a wide variety of disciplinary background. For example, these could include, but need not be limited to, queer, trans and disability studies, early modern history, literary, theatre and performance studies, audience studies, rhetoric or sociology. It is hoped that this project will give the successful candidate a wide variety of career development opportunities, and the project team will work with the Postdoctoral Research Fellow to provide these opportunities.

This is a project that celebrates and promotes diversity, equality and inclusion amongst our staff and students and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.Main duties and responsibilities:

1. Contribute to and conduct research and support our practitioners’ creative work in collaboration with the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator.

2. Take responsibility for project administration as required.

3. Co-author academic papers and project research findings and co-present results to project audience and work with the wider project team to publish them.

4. Organise research seminars and conferences.

5. Work collegiately with other colleagues to share ideas and contribute to the aims and objectives of the project as a whole.

6. Undertake any other appropriate duties as requested by the project investigators.

7. Contribute to the quality assurance and enhancement of the project.