Research Assistant/Post-Doc (Organising Disaster Project)

The Role

The Department of Sociology is a highly successful research and teaching department, having achieved equal top rating in the latest Research Assessment Exercise 2008. The Department wishes to appoint an experienced qualitative Research Assistant for the European Research Council funded project “Organising Disaster. Civil Protection and the Population”, led by Dr Michael Guggenheim. You will undertake independent qualitative research in close cooperation with the other project members on the relationship between civil protection and the population in Switzerland.

You will have a good first degree (or equivalent) and a PhD in sociology, anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural studies or related subjects, with experience of organising and undertaking ethnographic field research. You will be expected to contribute to the development of the project, and be responsible for collecting and analysing data and to develop a role in research and publication. Excellent communication skills are essential.
The Project

“Organising Disaster” is funded by a European Research Council (ERC) independent researcher starting grant. The research focus is on a comparative study of the relationship between civil protection and the population in England, India and Switzerland.

The project looks at how the state orders society in case of disasters. It takes disasters as moments when the state attempts to reorder society and thus analyses the encounter between civil protection as state organisation and the population. What happens when civil protection encounters the population in case of disasters? How does civil protection conceive of the population and how does it influence what happens in case of disasters? How does the population conceive of civil protection in turn?

Reference Number SOC000016
Department Sociology
Type of Contract Fixed-Term
Full Time/Part Time Full Time
Interview Date Week commencing Monday 21 February 2011
Closing date for applications 3 February 2011

From: £29,953 to £32,489 pa incl

Fixed-term until 31 December 2014

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