Job title: Project Coordinator
Department: Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Grade: Grade 7
Salary: £41,217 - £48,481 per annum pro rata inclusive of London Weighting (This salary will be pro rata'd)
Location: Bloomsbury
Hours: 14 hours
SOAS University of London is the leading Higher Education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. SOAS University of London is positioned to play a leading role in reimagining higher education globally, with a new strategic plan in place as the basis for the renewal and revitalisation of the School which commits SOAS to both student responsiveness and research intensity. SOAS is moving towards a new model of international partnerships which is responsive to the transnational character of our global challenges.
About the Department:
The Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS is a world-leading, research-led department, ranked 5th in the UK and 16th worldwide (QS World University Rankings 2021).
Its academics and research students work across a wide spectrum of anthropological, regional, and theoretical issues, including development, medical and psychological anthropology, food, migration, political economy, democracy, conflict, gender, race, the environment, critical theory and innovative ethnographic methods.
One of the Department’s key strengths lies in fostering a supportive learning and teaching environment for its students. The department has more than one hundred and eighty undergraduates in single and combined honours degrees, one hundred and thirty full and part-time postgraduate (MA) students, and thirty research (MPhil/PhD) students. Our MA programmes include the MA Social Anthropology, MA Anthropology of Food, MA Migration and Diaspora Studies, and our newest, the MA Anthropology of Global Futures and Sustainability, MA in Medical Anthropology and Mental Health, as well as an MRes Social Anthropology.
The Department is home to two interdisciplinary research centres—the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies and the Centre for the Anthropology of Food—as well as the Helen Kanitkar Anthropology Library and Postgraduate Research Student Study Centre. Weekly seminar series include the Departmental Research Seminar, the Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series, and the Food Forum.
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About the Role
SOAS wishes to recruit a part-time project coordinator (14 hours per week for 34 months) to assist Dr. Zerrin Ozlem Biner, senior lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and co-director of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies. We seek a candidate preferably trained in the social sciences and with experience coordinating large research projects. The project coordinator will be part of an interdisciplinary team working with the Principal Investigator, Dr Zerrin Ozlem Biner, to deliver the research objectives of the AHRC-funded project, “Archives of Solidarity: Precarity, Creativity and Shared Future-making across Closed Borders”. This collaborative and innovative anthropology project aims to use oral history, ethnography, and literary and audio-visual methods to create a multi-modal digital archive of solidarity practices involving citizens and refugees in Turkey and the UK.
The project coordinator will help the PI (Dr Zerrin Ozlem Biner) with (1) overall project management (liaise with stakeholders, organise workshops/symposium, monitor research budget, expenditure, transfer of funds for the expenses); (2) data management (prepare data for data sharing, ensure data protection, check usability of back-ups); and (3) impact activities (develop content for social media/website, source and generate content).
The position is part-time (40 percent, 14 hours per week, 34 months), with a proposed start date of 1 November until 31 August 2027.