UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE - RESEARCH FELLOW (50% of FULL-TIME) REF SOC021A
A part-time Research Fellow (50% of full-time) is required to work on a new ESRC funded project for a period of two years.
Background
Professor Michael Keating is director of an interdisciplinary programme, which has won a large (£2.5 million) from the Economic and Social Research Council as part of the Future of the UK and Scotland programme www.futureukandscotland.ac.uk/ Details of the project can be found within this site at www.futureukandscotland.ac.uk/projects/research-centre. The aim is to inform the debate about Scottish independence in advance of the referendum of 2014 and to analyse competing constitutional options. The team includes researchers from the universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Stirling and the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. The project is for two years from October 2013 and covers the disciplines of politics, economics and law.
Purpose
One dimension of the project is comparative, to study the experience of independence and autonomy debates elsewhere and, particularly, in Quebec, Flanders, Catalonia and the Basque Country. Our ambition is to elaborate a comparative project to follow the present one. In the meantime, the main responsibility of this post will be to follow developments elsewhere, to provide up-to-date information for the web site and to collaborate on comparative analysis of the independence and devolution questions. The work will be done from web-based sources, media and secondary material although there may be some opportunities for travel.
As this post is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council it will be offered for a period of 2 years.
Salary will be at the appropriate point on the Grade 6 scale (£30,424 - £36,298 pro rata per annum), with placement according to qualifications and experience.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Michael Keating. m.keating@abdn.ac.uk
To apply online for this position visit www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs
The closing date for the receipt of applications is 29 November 2013.
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