Job Title: Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor in One Health
We are seeking an Ad Astra Fellow in 'One Health', to be based in the UCD School of History, Ireland's pre-eminent centre for historical teaching and research.
About the Role:
* The successful candidate will collaborate with the School of English, Drama, and Film and play a key role in developing a transdisciplinary academic field across UCD.
* The appointee will contribute to humanities research initiatives in 'One Health' with a focus on Africa or South America.
Main Responsibilities:
1. Analyse the interconnected origins of disease circuits across human and animal communities and untangle the implications for contemporary disease outbreaks.
2. Deconstruct colonial and postcolonial power relations in contemporary understandings, depictions, and management of diseases, environmental crises, and zoonoses by local, national and international health organisations and bodies.
3. Examine the development of pest and biological controls, in the context of twentieth-century development policies and concerns over food production, safety and security.
4. Centre the voices, lifeways, and experiences of colonised and/or indigenous communities, and analyse their responses to medical interventions, such as vaccination and sanitation programmes.
5. Make methodological contributions to ongoing discussions about how to uncover new types of non-human environmental data sets (archives), such as herbariums or historic microbe collections, and represent non-speaking subjects.
6. Demonstrate the centrality of narrative, cultural forms, and discursive systems to the construction, representation and dissemination of knowledge.
Fellowship Details:
* The Ad Astra Fellowship includes one funded PhD studentship.
* An annual research budget of €5000 is available.
* A reduced teaching load applies.
Long-term Goals:
* Train a new researchers in inter- and trans-disciplinary One Health methodologies.
* Develop undergraduate and graduate taught programmes aimed at practitioners and researchers.
* Forge links with international health organisations and internal researchers.
* Foster a cluster of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.
Application Requirements: To be considered for this role, you will be expected to apply for external funding, publish in international peer-reviewed journals, participate in conferences and workshops, supervise Ad Astra PhD candidate, develop partnerships with relevant research groups across UCD, and develop public engagement activities aimed at a non-specialist audiences.