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Department of Social Sciences
Fixed-term with Expected working Dates from 8 February 2019 to 7 November 2019
Part-time 14.8 hours per week
The Institute of Media and Creative Industries is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to work with Professor Emily Keightley on the Leverhulme-funded Research Project 'Migrant Memory and the Post-colonial Imagination (MMPI): British Asian Memory, Identity and Community after Partition'.
This post offers a fantastic opportunity to be part of a long-term cutting-edge research project. Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India, this ground-breaking work responds to the urgent need for research which captures cultural memories of Partition in the British Asian community. This research addresses how community identities, including a sense of Britishness, are produced and articulated by South Asian people in the UK through cultural practices and social processes of remembering the 1947 Partition of India.
The successful candidate will contribute to the development and delivery of the project, working closely with the Research Associate and Principal Investigator and other members of the project team as well as with key external partner organisations and the local community.
The successful applicant will be an experienced community practitioner or researcher with a background of working with different South Asian Community groups in East London and beyond, specifically in the area of creative and/or cultural activities. The candidate will be able to work independently to organise and facilitate programmes of cultural activity in community settings and will be effective in recruiting participants to the project.
Informal enquiries should be made by email to Professor Emily Keightley, Professor in Media and Memory Studies, Loughborough University, E.Keightley@lboro.ac.uk
Interviews will be held on 25 January 2019.