Positions
Research Fellow in History (3 years appointment) (Northumbria University Newcastle) – deadline 2 January 2025
Northumbria Universit is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow in Histor or a period of 3 ears.
This three-year post will support the project ‘University Students as Migrants: A New History of Educational Mobility in Western Europe, 1960s–1980s’, which is jointly funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).
The project traces changing migration policies and discourses in Western Europe since the 1960s. It scrutinises how student mobility has developed and changed in the context of local, national and European migration policies. It investigates the relationship between restrictive migration policies in Western Europe and schemes that facilitated the transnational mobility of students. Moreover, it seeks to analyse how such mobility intersected with other forms of migration (such as flight, exile and labour migration) and what this meant for mobile students who often faced many of the issues that were central to migrant experiences more broadly.
The UK component of this Anglo-German research partnership is led by Dr Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University), in cooperation with Prof. Isabella Löhr (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History), who is responsible for the German part of this venture.
The research fellow, based at Northumbria University, will conduct archival research on student mobility in the United Kingdom and Belgium (complementing the research that a Potsdam-based Research Fellow will undertake with a focus on West Germany and France). More specifically, the research fellow will coordinate one particular thematic strand of the wider team’s research, namely ‘Student Experiences and Agency’, and will take an active role in knowledge-exchange activities involving two partner organisations, the European Students’ Union (ESU) and the Global Student Forum (GSF).
Applications should be submitted ultimately 2 January 2025.
