Faculty of Social Sciences, 4 posts, 3 year temporary contract, based in Milton Keynes

£29,853 - £31,671. Start date: 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2013

circulation date : 02/09/2010

closing date : 30/09/2010

The Open University is pursuing an ambitious project the € 2M of funding for which has been provided by the European Research Council under its second Advanced Research Grants scheme. The project is entitled ‘Citizenship after Orientalism’ and Professor Engin Isin will lead it in 2010-2014. We are looking for four able and motivated graduates with a social sciences background.

The purpose of the project is to redefine European citizenship by developing, without the assumptions of orientalism and occidentalism, comparative insights on citizenship understood as political subjectivity in Asias, Africas, Australias or Americas.

Research Associates will work with the Principal Investigator and Senior Project Manager to develop and conduct a research programme, to deliver specified project outcomes to a professional standard, and ensure effective communications and publicity.

Closing date: noon 30 September 2010.
Interviews will be held in Milton Keynes on 21/22 October 2010.