Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2018–2022: Inequality

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King’s College Cambridge invites applications for a four-year Junior Research Fellowship from those who are completing or have recently completed a doctorate and who intend to pursue a research project on some aspect of the study of inequality.

Inequality within and between human groups is one of the most perennial themes across the social sciences, humanities and arts. It is also highly topical, with much public and scholarly attention being given to the arguments that income inequalities between nations have been falling in recent decades, whereas the domestic distributions of income and wealth have tended to become more unequal, at least within the wealthier countries – in both cases with profound political and cultural consequences. The United Nations have drawn attention to the linked nature of frameworks of inequality – inequalities of education, resources, access to knowledge, gender inequalities etc. – and have made addressing inequality one of the major aims of their Sustainable Development Goals. This post-doctoral Fellowship is intended to encourage new research into any aspect of past or present inequality, and responses to inequalities, in any part of the world, and locally, nationally or internationally, whether approached from the angle of archaeology, anthropology, art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, politics, or sociology.

The ideal candidate for this Junior Research Fellowship will have a strong background in one or more disciplines within the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences, and have completed an outstanding doctoral thesis. It is not a requirement that the candidate’s doctoral studies or the work that they submit in support of their application should have concerned issues of inequality, but candidates will be expected to show in their applications both how their future work relates to the work that they have already done and that they are able to situate their project in relation to current research on inequality. Projects that draw on work from different disciplines may be particularly welcome. The successful candidate will be expected to engage broadly with the whole college community and to organise academic activities in the form of seminars / workshops / conferences (for which the College will provide modest funding).

A Junior Research Fellowship is a postdoctoral position tenable for up to 4 years. Applications are welcome from graduates of any university. Candidates will usually have completed their PhD, and must not have undertaken more than 2 years of postdoctoral work by 1st October 2018 (i.e. your PhD cannot have been granted before 30th September 2016).

The closing date for applications is 9 am on Tuesday, 19th September 2017. Full details, including the method of application, are given on the King's College website

http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/junior-research-fellowships.html

King’s College follows an equal opportunities policy.