Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Heritage Conservation
Göteborgs universitet / Fiskar- och jägarjobb / Göteborg
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hela Sverige Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Heritage Conservation with specialization in cultural heritage, conflict and urbanization, Dnr PAR 2017/241
Location:
Department of Conservation
The Department of Conservation offers professional degree programs and research on issues of cultural heritage, cultural environments, cultural historical objects, buildings, interiors, gardens, landscapes, and planning. The Department is physically located in two cities. In Gothenburg we offer degree programs for building preservationists, conservators, and leaders in the fields of sloyd and traditional handicrafts. In Mariestad we offer programs in building construction, garden, and landscaping crafts. Collaboration is an important component of what we do-collaboration among the different branches of the department, between degree programs and research, and with the surrounding society nationally and internationally. These diverse forms of collaborations are vital to critically engage with the complexity of conservation as theory and practices. Conservation, as we see it, demands expertise from a broad range of knowledge that includes fields in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. For more information, see
www.conservation.gu.se. Subject area
Heritage Conservation with specialisation in cultural heritage, conflicts, and urbanisation
Subject area description
The announced position includes research in relation to the built environment, with a particular focus on the politicisation of heritage within the processes of urbanisation, and how that impacts on the critical questions of identity, sense of place and representation in cities. Of particular interest is how meanings/values of heritage become constructed and institutionalised in urban policy documents and discourses, and how this transcends everyday life and relates to resistance and other forms of social conflicts in urban public spaces. This approach suggests several challenges, including the virtue of problematizing heritage, as concept and field of inquiry, beyond any conventional divide between public and private, local and global, human and nature, collective and individual, etc. It also suggests a shift from a traditional object-orientation to an increasing understanding of heritage as a socio-cultural process that is continuously changing and surging, of the conception of conservation as a social complex activity rather than a technical management activity divorced from context and power relations.
Job assignments
The position primarily involves research, in collaboration with the research group "heritage and conflict" at the Department of Conservation. The job assignments include project planning, filed research, processes and analyses of empirical data, publication of results in scientific articles and at conferences. The Postdoctor is also expected to actively participate in project workshops and seminars, as well as cooperate with the surrounding community. The postdoc project is financed by and would be carried within the context of other research projects at the Department of Conservation. These projects explore the ways heritage and resistance are entangled in various situations of social conflicts in cities today, with a focus on the critical questions of identity, memory, authority and sense of place. The Postdoc is expected to contribute to these projects through empirical analysis of the current urban development and heritage management in the suburb Gamlestaden, Gothenburg. In addition to the research activities, the Postdoc is expected to help develop a research program on "heritage and conflict". For more information on the position and the project please visit this page
http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/staff/?languageId=100001&userId=xhamfe&departmentId=013016 Eligibility
Specific qualifications for academic positions are given in (Dnr V 2012/738) of the Higher Education Ordinance at the University of Gothenburg. To be eligible for the position, the applicant shall have a PhD-degree in conservation or a relevant subject, including cultural geography, urban studies, planning, cultural studies, sociology, or other related field. The applicants shall have been awarded the PhD degree not more than seven years prior the deadline of this call.
Assessment
The assessment would be focused on the applicant's scientific skills in terms of knowledge in the research theme, capacity to carry out theoretical and empirical analyses, and academic and professional experiences. This would be evaluated through scientific publications, contributions to conferences, and other contributions. Other evaluation criteria will include:
• The relevance of the applicant's education to the topic of the planned research
• The ability to engage and communicate with transdisciplinary research area
• Professional experiences in relation to the planned research
• The ability to collaborate with non-academic organisation and institutions
• Experience at do research or work with issues of heritage within conflict situations
• Developed international network with research groups relevant to the topic of the announced position
We are searching for a motivated researcher with knowledge and interest in the politics of cultural heritage and urbanisation, and how that relates to issues of identity and memory, preferably from an international perspective. Experience in methods for cultural and urban analyses, as well as good knowledge in Swedish language (required to conduct the field research) is merit.
The application should include the following documents
• Resumé
• Motivation letter, about one A4-page
• Reflection paper, explaining the applicant's approach to the project theme, and the case study (Urban development in Gamlestaden) in addition to reflections on possible theoretical and methodological principles. About 3000-5000 words?
• Copies of the dissertation, and other scientific publications. 3-4 texts.?
• Three reference persons
Employment
The position is a full-time employment for 18 month and may be extended up to 24 month if extended financing is located to the project. It is placed at the Department of conservation, Gothenburg, starting as agreed on but earl
Varaktighet, arbetstid
Time limited employment (temporary)
Publiceringsdatum2017-04-25Så ansöker duSista dag att ansöka är 2017-05-30
Ange följande referens när du ansöker: PAR 2017/241
FöretagGöteborgs universitet
AdressGöteborgs universitet
Box 100
40530 GÖTEBORG
KontorsadressUniversitetsplatsen 1
Jobbnummer 3458375
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