Research Fellow in History
3 weeks ago
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.
You 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). You will coordinate one particular thematic strand of the wider team's research, namely 'Student Experiences and Agency', and you will take an active role in knowledge-exchange activities involving two partner organisations, the European Students' Union (ESU) and the Global Student Forum (GSF). You will contribute to various events, including an academic conference held in Potsdam. You will prepare various research outputs, notably by contributing to a co-authored monograph that will bring together the project findings.
The role is fixed term for 36 months. We anticipate that online interviews will take place on 17 January 2025, for an appointment start soon thereafter.
About the team
You will work within the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University, an 80-person-strong community of scholars. The department's 'Histories of Activism' and 'Global and Transnational History' research groups will provide a supportive environment for your research. Links to the project team in Potsdam will be a central aspect of the project. In addition to close cooperation with the Principal Investigators (Dr Daniel Laqua and Professor Isabella Löhr) and the Potsdam-based Research Fellow, you will also receive support from the expertise of two further academic collaborators, Dr Edward Anderson at Northumbria University and Prof. Marcia Schenck at the University of Potsdam.
About you
You should hold a PhD in History or another relevant discipline. Your research background should equip you to handle the different dimensions of this project, which encompass national contexts (UK, Belgium), transnational processes as well as international institutional frameworks.
Further information about the requirements of this role is available in the person specification .
If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Daniel Laqua ( daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk ).
To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.
We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about Relocation Assistance .
About us
Northumbria University is a research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all. We change lives regionally, nationally, and internationally through education and research, tackling the global challenges of our age to transform society and the economy. Find out why we were named Times Higher Education's University of the Year in 2022 and Modern University of the Year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 in the UK for this measure. REF2021 ranked Northumbria University's History outputs within the UK's top 10, and the majority of our research environment in History was deemed 'world-leading'.
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Our Values and Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what's important to us.
Please visit Our Values and Behaviours page to find out more.
We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include our City and Coach Lane Campuses in Newcastle upon Tyne and our London campus.
Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds bronze Athena Swan and Race Equality Charter awards in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender and race equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.
We are committed to keeping your data safe so it's important for you to know how we use any personal data you give us. For more detailed information, access our Privacy Policy .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).
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