Applications are invited for the role of Research Fellow as part of the UKRI Frontier Research Grant (ERC Consolidator Grant conversion) project “FINDEM – The Politics of Financial Citizenship”, led by Professor Lena Rethel, in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick. The project examines how middle-class expectations shape financial policy and politics in emerging market democracies, with a focus on Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia) and Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Nigeria and/or Ghana).
The successful candidate will be expected to support theoretical innovation around key concepts such as financial citizenship, financial development and the financialisation of social policy provision, contribute to data collection and conduct fieldwork in Indonesia and Malaysia, lead on academic outputs (research articles, edited volume) and work collaboratively with an international team of scholars in the interdisciplinary field of international political economy.
Please note that it is a University of Warwick requirement that you reside in the UK outside fieldwork periods; no exemptions can be made.