Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Cultural Geography in Singapore

We invite applications for a postdoctoral research fellow under the Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR) Fellowship, led by Principal Investigator Dr Lin Weiqiang. Successful applicants must hold a PhD degree in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Awarded by Singapore’s Social Science Research Council (SSRC), a Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR) Fellowship, led by Principle Investigator Dr Lin Weiqiang (National University of Singapore) with collaborators Professor Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Dr Tina Harris (University of Amsterdam), is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral fellow to contribute to the team’s research activities on airport infrastructure, automation and labour.

Motivated by the rapid acceleration of aeromobilities in Asia, the SSHR Fellowship project aims to better understand the inner-workings of the aviation industry as well as inform related policies surrounding infrastructure building, technology and airport labour in the region. The project will focus on the daily labour that goes into the maintenance and reproduction of airport infrastructure as well as its evolving relationships with automation in a post-COVID world. Our focus is on contemporary Asia and is concerned with the sustainability of the present turn towards mega-infrastructures.

The position will sit within the Department of Geography at NUS. Contract will be awarded for at least 12 months, and up to 18 months. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with the SSHR Fellowship project team, including the PI, two project collaborators, one PhD scholar and two research assistants.

Qualifications

The successful candidate should be well-versed in cultural theory and at least one of the following research themes. There exists a possibility for combining the themes below with the candidate’s own theoretical interests: 

• Aeromobilities
• Politics of infrastructure
• Labour and automation

He/she should have: 

• A PhD in Anthropology, Geography, History, Sociology or another relevant (Social Science or Humanities) discipline, or be awaiting conferment of a PhD (the PhD must be awarded by the time the post is taken up). An official letter from the Registrar’s Office of your university will be required to confirm the award of your PhD degree before contracts are issued.
• Regional expertise and/or demonstrable interest in Asia’s infrastructural projects.
• A promising trajectory in research and publication; a publication record in areas related to the above specified research interests and field areas is a significant advantage.
• Excellent communication skills in English. Proficiency in another language/other languages is a plus.

The successful candidate is expected to contribute significantly to the SSHR Fellowship project besides carrying out his/her own research plans.

This includes, but is not limited to: 

• Conducting international fieldwork (predominantly in the form of semi-structured interviews) with up to 120 research participants in Beijing, Jakarta and/or Dubai
• Contributing to fresh research directions and co-writing.
• Co-organisation of and/or paper presentations in workshops and conference sessions.
• Collaborations with other researchers (in the department and beyond) where appropriate.

Organisation

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Location

Research field

Deadline

23th February 2023

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