Post-Doctoral Opportunities: Immigrant Detention, Prisons and Mobility

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There are two Post-Doctoral Fellowships available at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Details are:

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, “Home and away: Gender, nation, deportation.” [Grade 7: £29,249-£35,938, fixed term for 42 months]

The Centre for Criminology is looking to appoint a suitably qualified person to a full-time Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship entitled “Home and away: Gender, nation, deportation” for a fixed period of 42 months.  The fellow will carry out a program of original research into the experiences of immigration detention in Britain and return.  The person appointed will have research expertise in a relevant field and an academic publishing record commensurate with stage of career. They will publish academic articles and a monograph, participating in the wider ERC funded-research project, led by Dr Mary Bosworth, of which this is part, organising conferences and an edited collection.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, “The postcolonial prison: citizenship, punishment and mobility.” [Grade 7: £29,249-£35,938, fixed term for 42 months]

The Centre for Criminology is looking to appoint a suitably qualified person to a full-time Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship on “The postcolonial prison: citizenship, punishment and mobility” for a fixed period of 42 months. The fellow will carry out a program of original research on foreign national prisoners in England and Wales and another European country. She/he will have research expertise in a relevant field and an academic publishing record commensurate with stage of career. She/he will publish academic articles and a monograph, and participate in the wider ERC funded-research project of which this is part, led by Dr Mary Bosworth.

Although the parameters of the studies are described here in brief, these are designed as independent pieces of research to be lead by the applicant.

In all cases, only applications received before midday on Friday November 23 can be considered. Applications are to be made online. To apply, please visit www.ox.ac.uk and search for the relevant vacancy in the jobs section.