**Job Description**
The successful candidate will join the ERC Consolidator Grant-funded SovereignPerformance project as part of a team of five post-doctoral researchers, coordinated by Bart Klem. This role involves contributing to the project’s first work package, which focuses on ethnographic field research into the political repertoires of the Catalonian independence movement. The position primarily involves academic research (at least 70% of assignment), encompassing in-depth qualitative fieldwork, collaboration with project colleagues, academic publishing, public outreach, and presentations at workshops and conferences, alongside minor departmental contributions.
**Skills & Abilities**
• Demonstrable experience with in-depth qualitative fieldwork
• Experience handling research-related political sensitivities and ethical challenges
• Excellent publishing record, commensurate to career stage
• Excellent command of written and spoken Spanish, suitable to conduct fieldwork
• Excellent command of written and spoken English, suitable for academic writing and oral presentations
• (Desirable) Proficiency in Catalan
• (Desirable) Experience with ethnographic methods
• (Desirable) Demonstrable experience with or knowledge about separatist conflict, performative politics, aesthetic politics, political activism
• (Desirable) Experience with inter-disciplinary research and/or mixed methods
• (Desirable) Previous work experience related to the Catalonian independence movement (or other independence movements)
**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Anthropology
• Political Science
• International Relations
• Geography
• Conflict Studies
• Development Studies
• Similar relevant disciplines
**Experience**
Other:
• Thesis-based doctorate awarded no more than 6 years before the submission deadline of this call.
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