英国牛津大学“畜牧、环境和人”项目2020年招聘博士后研究员职位

Postdoctoral Researcher on the Social Dimensions of Meat and Dairy

Job Description

Postdoctoral Researcher on the Social Dimensions of Meat and Dairy

Department of Zoology and the School of Geography and the Environment, 11a Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ Grade 7: £32,817 - £40,322 per annum

We are seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant to join the Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project at the Department of Zoology in Central Oxford. The post is funded by the Wellcome Trust and will be fixed-term until the end of May 2022.

The post-holder will take responsibility for delivering the social science components of this large, interdisciplinary project. Work in this package is focused on understanding and enabling change in the food system through the analysis of the social and political-economic context in which food system decisions are made. Although open to applications from broad areas we are interested in exploring the social dimensions of some of the following topics: i) the production, use and afterlives of fertilisers, as part of a wider exploration of the political ecology of protein and the nitrogen cycle; ii) the contested role of livestock in the management of soil carbon, for example in debates about regenerative agriculture; iii) the growing interest in managing soil and commensal animal microbes to improve agricultural sustainability; and iv) the rise of intensive chicken production and debates over its potential and its problems.

Applicants should hold, or be close to completion (i.e. submitted of thesis) of a PhD/DPhil in the social sciences (Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Science Studies, Politics or closely related fields) with a substantive focus on food, animals and agriculture, or equivalent experience. They should have experience in some of the following research methodologies: policy analysis; surveys; social media and Internet research; and in-depth interviewing, ethnographic and participatory research.