We are seeking to appoint a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate (Grade 8, £ 39,993 - £ 47,722) for a project on ethnic Germans in the Former Soviet Union.

Please note the tight time schedule. The closing date for applications is 10 November 2017 (midday) and we are hoping to interview shortlisted candidates during w/c 20 November 2017.

Full time, fixed term contract until 30 September 2019.

This role is full time, but we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements including potential job shares.

When applying for this position, please refer to the attached 'Realising your potential approach' document.

The School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) at Durham University seeks to appoint a full time Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the German government-funded research project “The German Diaspora in the post-Soviet Space”.

The complex and varied history of ethnic Germans on the territory of the Former Soviet Union provides a rich source for the study of ethnicity and the resilient nature of identification with a perceived German ethnicity in spite of, at times, very adverse conditions. The project will examine the state of the German diaspora in a number of successor states of the Former Soviet Union.

It will make a unique contribution to our empirical knowledge of ethnic German communities in a number of countries in the post-Soviet space since the end of the Cold War. It will assess the extent to which notions of Germanness have developed in states which gained their independence in the wake of the demise of the Soviet Union and assess the commonalities and differences of ethnic German communities in these states and how their mass outward migration has affected their chances of survival as a transnational ethnic community