Closing date: 23 February 2020
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/23976/
Applications are invited for two postdoctoral research associates in Urban
Ecologies: governing nonhuman life in global cities, funded by an European
Research Council (ERC) Horizon 2020 Starting Grant.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on an interdisciplinary project
that examines how the urban is governed by regulating nonhuman life. It
draws on ethnographic and ecological modes of inquiry to develop
more-than-human approaches to urban infrastructure, metabolism, biopolitics
and everyday life in the city.
The researchers will be based at the University of Cambridge and candidates
will be encouraged to develop their own projects within the wider project
framework.
The Urban Ecologies project is comparative, including ongoing work on
metropolitan ecologies in India (New Delhi, Guwahati) and the UK (London).
We are seeking to recruit two Postdoctoral Research Associates, and
especially welcome those with an interest in urban natures, and questions
of urban metabolism, infrastructures and health.
Responsibilities will involve doing ethnographic and ecological fieldwork
in London, besides contributing to understandings of urban ecological
controversies.
Eligible candidates must have a PhD in the social sciences (human
geography, anthropology, sociology or a cognate field), architecture,
environmental/ecological sciences or relevant discipline. Those with an
interest in posthumanism and more-than-human geographies of heath and
metabolism, are especially encouraged to apply.
The post will be supervised by Dr Maan Barua and will be based in the Vital
Geographies and Infrastructural Geographies Research Groups at the
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Queries can be directed
to: maan.barua@geog.cam.ac.uk
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 36 months in the
first instance.
HOW TO APPLY (Closing date: 23 February 2020):
To apply, use the link below:
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/
Further particulars can be found here:
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/
Please quote reference LC21369 on your application and in any
correspondence about this vacancy. The University actively supports
equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all
sections of society. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all
employees are eligible to live and work in the UK