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The Role:
The University of Portsmouth is offering an exciting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to carry out research in an international and interdisciplinary team within the framework of the RE-WIRING Horizon Europe project, that has been granted under the call “HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-5 Gender and Social, Economic and Cultural Empowerment”. This project is aimed at building a European network of academic and non-academic institutions and stakeholders to contribute to a more resilient, equal and inclusive EU.
The project will trace current limitations of girls’ and women’s access to political, economic, social and cultural power (of definition) and is geared towards developing new theoretical and methodological approaches as well as to creating/ producing/ kickstarting/ facilitating institutional and societal change, focusing on the mainstreaming of a transformative equality approach in the EU and beyond. The project will thus reveal and analyse the existence of difficult-to-penetrate strongholds of power in different fields, occupied by gender-privileged groups. It will on the one hand investigate the main institutional, empirical and symbolical obstacles hampering access to power, while on the other hand identifying, crafting and testing/implementing possible solutions to it that are capable of achieving long-term transformations.
The project envisions working with an intersectional, multi- and interdisciplinary research agenda based on a based in three-dimensional theoretical and methodological approach of the interconnectedness between the symbolical, the institutional and the empirical levels in order to create/bring about/etc durable societal change. It also takes a crisis and cross-cultural perspective (see for a brief description also
The Research Fellows will not only work on the specific Work Package (WP) for which they have been selected (either WP 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), but will also be contributing significantly to the integrative WP 1, 7, 8 and to a limited extent also to WP 9. The research is embedded in an international and interdisciplinary setting, in close collaboration with the other post-docs in the project as well as the senior researchers from the various partner institutions. The project also involves close collaboration with external stakeholders, in particular the OECD (Organisation of Economic Cooperation), ETUI (European Trade Union Institute) and CEC European Managers (Confédération Européenne des Cadres – European Confederation of Managers).
This post is fixed term until February 2026
For internal candidates it may be possible to apply for this role under the Secondment Policy. If you wish to apply as a secondee, you must have approval of your line manager in advance of submitting your application form. Please confirm in your application that your line manager has approved this.
We would consider a job share for this role which can be discussed at interview.
Interviews for this post will be held on 3 December 2024
Discover the advantages of joining our university. We offer a range of attractive benefits and opportunities to enhance your work experience:
- Competitive salary, including incremental progression within your scale.
- Generous pension scheme.
- Generous leave entitlement of 32–35 days a year, plus bank holidays, and an additional Christmas closure.
- Family-friendly policies supporting flexible working.
- Staff discounts and loyalty schemes.
- Staff car parking and discounted public travel.
- Excellent training and development opportunities.
- Staff wellbeing programmes.
- Long service milestones, and recognition awards which may be awarded to staff for exceptional performance.
- Recreation facilities, including discounted gym membership, food on campus schemes, use of the Library and staff social activities.
- Discounted learning.
- Start-up business mentoring from expert entrepreneurs via our Entrepreneurs in Residence programme.
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We are strongly dedicated to embedding equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within our community. As an Athena SWAN and Race Equality Charter award holder, a member of Stonewall and a Disability Confident Employer we are passionate about creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, regardless of your background. We welcome applications from all talented people. In addition, we want our workforce to be representative of our diverse student population. Please see our EDI Framework and objectives.
Please note that this vacancy may be closed earlier than advertised, so early applications are advised.
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