Postdoctoral Research Fellows (x2)
UKRI Invisible Women, Invisible Workers project
We are inviting applications for two Research Fellow posts in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham.
These appointments are being made as part of a £1.6 million UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship entitled “Invisible Women, Invisible Workers: Focusing a gendered lens on health and safety in the global garment industry” (2022-2026). The Fellowship explores the health and safety of workers in garments and footwear manufacturing, focusing on four countries: Cambodia, Ethiopia, Jordan, and the UK. Health and safety is an urgent concern for female workers, in particular. Women comprise a majority of the workforce in the sector, yet a lack of gender-disaggregated data combined with the predominance of gender-blind programming means that workplace protections often miss key threats to women’s wellbeing. The research aims to understand and communicate how women in the garment industry experience health and safety, and identify strategies to better protect their wellbeing and security.
Posts are full-time and fixed term for 45-months from 1st November 2022 to 31st July 2026, in the first instance.
Job description
The successful applicants will conduct substantive fieldwork with female garment workers in one of the project’s four sites (either Ethiopia or Jordan), using feminist, creative, and participatory methods including institutional ethnography, qualitative interviews, counter-mapping, and Photovoice. They will analyse qualitative data, and disseminate findings by developing articles for peer-reviewed publications. They will generate impact-focused material to influence non-academic audiences, as well as coordinate relationships and events with external stakeholders to deliver knowledge exchange towards impact.
Requirements
We welcome applications to join our diverse and interdisciplinary team from recent PhD graduates (or those near to completion of a PhD) in human geography or cognate fields (including sociology, anthropology, development studies, health humanities, etc.), as well as from applicants with postdoctoral experience, or those who do not hold a PhD but have equivalent research experience and expertise. Applicants must have experience of undertaking fieldwork in low or middle-income countries and must have sufficient knowledge in fields of work, labour, or employment. We welcome applicants who are able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in one or more areas: gendered work relations; (feminist) political economy; social reproduction; gendered health and wellbeing; and/or ethnographic, participatory and creative methods.
We offer
Each role has additional dedicated funds to support the postholder’s professional development, including tailored training, mentoring, international research visits, and conference attendance.
The posts will be based within the School of Geography. The School is committed to high-quality research and knowledge transfer, and we have a strong culture of interdisciplinary and collaborative research. Postholders will benefit from intersecting interests across the School’s Economic Worlds research theme and Health Geography Hub, as well as the University’s Rights Lab.
Our University is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We warmly welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – indeed this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. We welcome applications from UK, Europe and from across the globe. For more information on the support we offer our international colleagues, see our Moving to Nottingham pages. For successful international applicants, we provide financial support for your visa and the immigration health surcharge, plus an interest-free loan to help cover the cost of immigration-related expenses for any dependants accompanying you to the UK. For more information please see the our webpage on Financial support for visas and the immigration health surcharge.
How to apply
Please submit your application through our online recruitment system: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SOC376722
The closing date for applications is Monday, 26th September 2022.
For more information about these roles, please contact Dr Sabina Lawreniuk (sabina.lawreniuk@nottingham.ac.uk).