The University of Oxford Humanities Division is delighted to announce $1.8 million in funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Postdoctoral Fellowships. Six fixed-term research and teaching appointments in the selected broad research areas are available from 1 October 2009 for two years, and one post for one year. A further five posts will be available from October 2011 in other research areas and will be advertised closer to the time. The salary will be at University Grade 7 - £28,839 to £31,513 a year (a higher salary may be available in exceptional cases).
Although the major part of the Fellowship will be devoted to research, the aim is also to equip the Fellows in all aspects of an academic career, and the Fellowship will also involve a limited amount of teaching and some administrative duties. An academic mentor will be assigned to each Fellow, and support for further development in academic practice, learning, and teaching will be available through the Oxford Learning Institute (http://www.learning.ox.ac.uk/) and the Division's Teaching Development Co-ordinator. The Fellowship will have a College association, and a £4,000 a year research allowance will be available for the two-year posts.
Applicants must have completed their doctorates and be starting out on preparing a second research theme as well as showing the potential for future academic leadership. Each area will be interpreted broadly and applicants with 'interdisciplinary' research agendas will not be disadvantaged; selection committees will be looking primarily for academic excellence.
The posts will be tenable in the following research areas: Ethnomusicology - in the Faculty of Music; History of Hindu religious cultures in South Asia, c. 1700 to the present - in the Faculty of Oriental Studies; Late antique or early Islamic history - in the Faculties of Classics and Oriental Studies (one-year post, available at £28,839); Philosophy of cognitive science - in the Faculty of Philosophy; Semantics - in the Faculties of Philosophy and Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics; Sociolinguistics - in the Faculties of English Language and Literature and Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics; and Transnational history - in the Faculty of History.
For further particulars for each post and details of how to apply, see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/. The closing date is 12 noon on Friday, 6 March 2009.
The Division also warmly welcomes externally funded Research Fellowship applications in any area, such as for British Academy Postdoctoral or Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships, Newton International Fellowships, and Marie Curie Intra-European or International Incoming Fellowships. It has a team of research facilitators who will advise and support applicants during the process. Further information is available at http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/research/applying_from_outside_oxford/.
The University of Oxford is an equal opportunities employer. Applications for these posts are especially welcome from women and ethnic minorities, who are under-represented among the University's academic staff (section 38 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and section 48 of the Race Relations Act 1976 apply).