We invite applications for a Research Fellow to join an interdisciplinary Leverhulme project, ‘Counternarratives of West African Artists’ migration to Britain, 1930-1968’, examining the hidden histories of West African visual artists, with a focus on painters and sculptors, who travelled to or migrated to Britain between 1930 and 1968.

The post has been designed for an outstanding research fellow in the field of Anthropology, History, Migration Studies, African Studies or a related discipline. The successful candidate will play a central role in delivering the project’s research objectives. The project requires a highly motivated research fellow, with excellent communication skills who is able to produce research at the highest quality and develop the project’s research profile. Working closely with Professor Pamela Kea, the PI, the Research Fellow will undertake the majority of archival research and oral history interviews in Britain and West Africa.

We are a global hub at the heart of Sussex University. Our engaged research and critical pedagogy addresses the most pressing global issues of our times – global social justice, environmental change and climate justice, war and peace, migration, global health, human rights, identity, and inequality. Our mission is to generate transformative research and real-world teaching that equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to work towards a fairer, safer, more sustainable and more inclusive world.

We are committed to inspiring and curiosity-driven teaching and research that strives to find creative solutions for the social, environmental, economic and political poly-crisis facing the world today. Global Studies stands out for its interdisciplinarity across our departments, courses and research centres; our ambitious global outlook; and our decolonising, anti-racist and reparative justice approaches to teaching, research and civic engagement.

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.

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Please contact Pamela Kea (p.j.kea@sussex.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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