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Project assistent (50%) in the international NordForsk project Making it Home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration - MaHoMe
Lund University, Joint Faculties of the Humanities and Theology, Department for Arts and Cultural Sciences

The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University is a diverse department, comprised of thirteen areas of study and research. It employs over 80 people and enrolls annually about 1500 students.

The project assistant position is a part of Making it Home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration - MaHoMe, a four-year research project funded by NordForsk with Professor Fran Lloyd (Kingston University, UK) as the PI.

The position starts on 1st April 2023 (or upon agreement) and is based at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University. This is a fixed-term employment for 4 months.

Project Description

The MaHoMe project directly addresses migration and integration challenges by examining how migrants make and make sense of home amidst the complex and divergent politics of integration in three host societies: UK, Denmark and Sweden between 2010 and 2020. MaHoMe’s multi-disciplinary approach, using multi-sited ethnographic methods, combines narrative policy analysis, visual ethnography, and participatory aesthetic methods. Our novel approach analyses data on comparative- historical perspectives on integration policy-making and stories of migrant home-making, and adds participatory aesthetic methods focusing on migrant contemporary cultural expressions through visual imagery and soundscapes derived from smartphones in order to empirically engage with migrant experiences and expressions of home and home-making. The collaborative research processes and outputs are designed for maximum societal impact, ensuring engagement and dissemination to a wide range of stakeholders, policy makers, and audiences.

For further information on the research project, see https://mahomeproject.com

Work duties and areas of responsibility:

The work consists of transcribing and digitizing about 50 interviews recorded within the project. The research assistant is expected to work independently but also collaborate with docent Eleonora Narvselius, who is the local PI within the project.

Qualifications:

The project assistant is expected to be able to:

- transcribe the existing interview material.

- help the local PI to identify informants for new interviews.

- carry out the work mainly in Lund.

Requirements for employment are:

• University education in ethnology or other subjects within the humanities.
• Fluent Swedish and English in speech and writing.
• Experience of transcribing, interviewing and working with interview material.

Additional qualifikations for the position are:

Good knowledge of the Danish language, both oral and written, is particularly advantageous. Experience of interviewing and application of ethnography in the applicant’s own studies or research is of great relevance for the position.

Further information:

A part-time (50 %) employment as project assistent for 4 months.

How to apply:

• A cover letter of no more than 1000 words including a statement describing how the key qualifies of the candidate.
• A complete CV.
  
  

NB! The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions above, that all documents are scanned (as a single PDF file) and that the file has reached the University through the e-recruitment portal no later than the application deadline.