MSCA-PF: Joint application at the University of Granada. Department of Social Anthropology.

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Descripción de la vacante

The University of Granada invites applications for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2025. Candidates with a PhD in social sciences and a strong ethnographic research background are encouraged to apply, engaging in innovative research methodologies and collaborating with dynamic academic teams.

Formación

• Candidates must comply with the Mobility Rule.
• Experience in ethnographic research methodologies preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Engage in high-quality research projects.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams.
• Develop and apply innovative research methods.

Educación

PhD in relevant field

Descripción del empleo

Organisation / Company University of Granada Department International Research Projects Office Laboratory Department ofSocial Anthropology Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Professor Dario Ranocchiari , from the Department ofSocial Anthropology at the University of Granada, welcomes postdoctoral candidatesinterested inapplying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF)in 2025 at this University. Please note that applicants must comply with the Mobility Rule (for more information about the 2025 call, please consult this link .

Brief description of the institution:

The University of Granada (UGR), founded in 1531, is one of the largest and most important universities in Spain. With amost 54,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and more than 6,000 members of staff, the UGR offers over 90 undergraduate degrees, 157 master’s degrees (7 of which are international double degrees) and 28 doctoral programmes via its 124 departments and nearly 50 centers. Accordingly, the UGR offers one of the most extensive and diverse ranges of higher education programmes in Spain.

The UGR has been awarded with the "Human Resources Excellence in Research (HRS4R)", which reflects the institution’s commitment to continuously improve its human resource policies in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The UGR is also internationally renowned for its excellence in diverse research fields and ranked among the top Spanish universities in a variety of ranking criteria, such as national R&D projects, fellowships awarded, publications, and international funding.

The UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the Shanghai Top 500 ranking - Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The 2024 edition of the ARWU places the UGR in 301-400th position in the world and as the 3-8 highest ranked University in Spain ( http://sl.ugr.es/0dwJ ) , reaffirming its position as an institution at the forefront of national and international research. From the perspective of specialist areas in the ARWU rankings ( http://sl.ugr.es/0bSp ) , the UGR is outstanding in Mathematics and Dentistry & Oral Sciences Food Science & Technology (both ranked between 51th-75th position), Computer Science & Engineering, Food Science & Technology and Hospitality & Tourism Management (all three ranked between 76-100th position), and in the areas of Statistics and Psychology (both ranked between 101-150th position). A little lower in the ranking, the UGR also stands out in the areas of Business Administration and Earth Sciences, in which the UGR is positioned in the 151-200th position.

Additionally, the UGR counts with 3 researchers at the top of the Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) list ( http://sl.ugr.es/0cmD ), most of them related to the Computer Science scientific area. It is also well recognised for its presence in the top 200 Universities in Europe ( http://sl.ugr.es/0a6i ) at 43th place .

Internationally, the University of Granada is firmly committed to its participation in the calls of the Framework Programme of the European Union. For the duration of the prevoius Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, the UGR obtained a totalof123 projectswith a total funding of around€30 million.For the current Framework Programme, Horizon Europe, the UGR has obtained108 projects, so far, with a total funding of€33 million.

Brief description of the Centre/Research Group:

The Department of Social Anthropology is part of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, and is the body responsible for coordinating and developing teaching and research in the area of social anthropology at the University of Granada. Currently, we teach in 12 bachelor's degrees and 7 master's degrees. In addition, our teaching staff participates in the PhD programmes in Social Sciences, Migration Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Discourses and Practices, and History and the Arts. We promote research and innovation in different disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. At the moment, our staff includes researchers specialising in the anthropology of gender, kinship, audiovisual, digital, food, education, health, environment, art, religions, memory, heritage, development, the Arab world, Latin America, Africa, and collaborative and activist ethnography. The Department has a multimodal anthropology laboratory, the Transmodal Ethnography Lab (TransMoLab), which manages and coordinates training, research and dissemination initiatives in this interdisciplinary field carried out by staff and students of the department.

We are interested in research work that, while maintaining a strong ethnographic focus, explores the methodological, epistemological, theoretical and ethical frontiers of socio- cultural anthropology. In particular, we are interested in experimenting with new formats in the process of research and the elaboration of its final products. Formats that include the shared construction of knowledge (participatory methodologies), the use of creative and artistic dynamics (art based methods), the exploration of hybrid formats between fiction and non-fiction (narrative ethnography), the use of audiovisual and digital technologies (linear and non-linear videos, sound objects and webpages), and of performative formats (theatre, sound, music). We carry out our research work along these lines with the support of the multimodal anthropology laboratory (TransMoLab, accessible from the web of the Department of Social Anthropology) and the research group Laboratory of Intercultural Studies of the University of Granada.

Research Area:

• Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

For a correct evaluation of your candidature, please send the documents below to Professor Dario Ranocchiari ( [e-mail] ):