FYI. Two job postings (UK and US)
- Five lectureship posts (various rank) at University of Birmingham, UK
- Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at University of New Hampshire, USA 1. University of Birmingham, UK
The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham (UK) is looking to appoint five posts at either lecturer, senior lecturer, or reader level. Starting salary range £32,324 – £52,793, depending on rank, with potential progression once in post. Positions to complement and extend existing expertise across four research themes: Perception, cognition, and action; mental health and wellbeing; language, interaction, and social cognition; and memory and attention. The following areas are particularly welcome:
Healthy lifestyle and ageing, with a particular emphasis on sleep and eating behaviours; adolescent mental health, including early risk markers in neurodevelopment; longitudinal and behavioural genetics approaches; language and the brain, with a particular emphasis on healthy ageing; electrophysiological approaches to memory using animal models, and the application of memory research to clinical disorders; computational science, including machine learning, Bayesian modelling, and computational models of perception, categorisation and attention.
Confidential enquiries can be made to Prof Kim Shapiro, Head of School, hos.psychology@contacts.bham.ac.uk, +44 121 414 4930.
Closing date: 15 September, 2017
To download the details and submit an electronic application online visit: www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs; alternatively, information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000.
2. University of New Hampshire, USA
The Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level to begin fall, 2018 in the area of social psychology. Area of specialization within social is open; however the Department is particularly interested in individuals with a strong background in statistics with specialties in areas such as structural equation modeling and/or multilevel modeling, as well as expertise in innovative methodologies who can teach graduate-level multivariate statistics.Applicant’s research interests should complement current faculty in Social/Personality. History of or strong potential for external funding is desirable. Requirements: Ph.D. in psychology and strong record of research and teaching. The successful applicant will teach multivariate statistics, courses in their area of specialization, and a course in Introductory Psychology, Statistics, or Research Methods; supervise doctoral and undergraduate student research; and advise undergraduate and doctoral students. Our standard teaching load is two courses per semester. Applicants should show a commitment to sustain and advance the goals of the institution’s diversity of students, faculty, and staff.
Review of applications begins September 15, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. Upload cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement describing research and teaching interests, reprints, teaching evaluations, and have three referees submit letters to jobs.usnh.edu. Questions may be sent via email to Search Chair Ellen Cohn (ellen.cohn@unh.edu).
Application by members of all underrepresented groups is encouraged. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the U.S.A.
FYI. Sage Young Scholars Awards
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Foundation of Personality and Social Psychology and SAGE invite applicants for Sage Young Scholars Awards. You can nominate yourself or a peer.
These awards are for applicants who are 3-7 years into their first academic faculty position and have demonstrated exceptional individual achievements in personality and/or social psychology. The award is one-time payment of $5000 (US) that can be used at recipients’ discretion.
Deadline: September 15, 2017
FYI. Call for papers: International Handbook of Fat Studies
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Call for Papers
International Handbook of Fat Studies
2017
Cat Pausé and Katie LeBesco are editing the International Handbook of Fat Studies for Routledge; publication intended for 2019. At this time, the editors are inviting those interested in contributing a chapter to the handbook to submit an abstract and outline of proposed chapter for consideration. People of colour, activists, and those from outside of the United States are especially encouraged to submit.
Fat Studies is a post-disciplinary field of study that confronts and critiques cultural constraints against notions of “fatness” and “the fat body”; explores fat bodies as they live in, are shaped by, and remake the world; and theorises how society conceptualises and pathologises fat bodies. Fat Studies scholars identify and discuss mainstream and alternative discourses on fatness, analyse size as a social justice issue at the intersection of oppression, and critically appraise size oppression as it is manifested in various societal institutions (medicine, media, education, etc).
Handbooks are not intended as a textbook, but as a single-volume reference work aimed at academics and postgraduates working in areas related to fat studies generally. Each essay in the Handbook is effectively a “position paper,” a state-of-the-art overview of a branch of the subject. This being the case, each essay is expected to:
- Provide a substantial review of the main ideas and debates in the subject through a review of the literature, outlining the historical development of ideas in the field
- Assess the main methodologies/paradigms in the field today, outline the main questions which the subject has sought or seeks to address, describe the current research agendas, analyze how the subject does or does not draw on related disciplines (or practices/professions if appropriate), and how it has or can explore key concerns (ethical, epistemological, etc)
- Outline the likely future of the field, possible developments, new research directions
Chapter proposals should include an abstract and an outline for the proposed chapter; these are due by 5 August, 2017. Invitations to produce a full chapter will be sent to authors in August, with full chapters due in early December, 2017. Each chapter will 7000-7500 words (including notes and references). Files should be named with the author’s surname followed by _fshb (Jones_fshb). Please include contact information in the body of the email, and ensure your submission includes the title of your chapter, an abstract, outline for the chapter, and a short bio for the author(s).
Questions, concerns, and submissions should be sent to Cat c.pause@massey.ac.nz
FYI. Association for the Study of Medical Education: Doctoral grant programme
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The Association for the Study of Medical Education invites applications for its PhD and doctoral grants programme. This aims to meet the needs of teachers, trainers and learners in medical education by supporting search-informed best practice across the continuum of medical education and internationally-excellent medical education research.Supervisory teams of at least two individuals may apply. They must have experience of successful supervision of doctoral students. The principal supervisor and at least one other member of the supervisory team must be members of ASME for the duration of the grant, and the recruited student is also expected to join the association. Collaborations between several institutions and disciplines are encouraged. Applications from outside the UK are considered, but funding is available at UK home student rates.
The grant covers an annual doctoral stipend, worth £14,553 in 2017/2018, for three years, and consumables and training expenses worth up to £12,000 in total. The PhD studentship must be undertaken full-time.
Deadline: 30th Aug 2017
FYI. Special issue of Fat Studies: Fat in Theatre and Performance
FYI. Special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society
Call for abstracts: Themed Issue on Fat in Theatre and Performance
If you are interested in contributing to this themed issue, please send Jennifer-Scott Mobley (mobleyj15@ecu.edu) an article title and an abstract of 250-500 words outlining what you would propose to cover by 21 August 2017. Final submissions will be no longer than 7,000 words, including the abstract, all notes and references.
This themed issue, to be edited by Professor Jennifer-Scott Mobley focuses on fat in performance and aims to explore representations of fat in live performance as well as film, and media. How is fat portrayed, performed, or “read” in various cultural representations?
In keeping with the journal’s emphasis on ‘body weight and society,’ this issue invites contributions from a sociocultural as well as performative/performance studies perspective. Topics may address but are not limited to the following prompts:
–How do we understand or read bodies in performance and what are social constructions of fat on stage, screen, and in commercial media?
–How do perceptions of body size impact casting or audience reception?
–What is the connection between character and performing body and what does it mean when performers choose to gain or lose weight for a role?
–How do performers use their non-normative bodies to uphold or refute stereotypes or stigmas associated with fat?
–What is the interplay between race, queerness, disability, and fat in representation?
–How do constructions of fat in representation intersect with constructions of gender?
–Fat-activist/fat-positive performance
–Critical reception to fat and corporeality or non-normative bodies in dance
–Affective response to fat bodies in live performance
–Critical examinations of fat performance through the theoretical lens of the grotesque or carnivalesque
Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society is the first academic journal in the field of scholarship that critically examines theory, research, practices, and programs related to body weight and appearance. Content includes original research and overviews exploring the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, age, ability, and socioeconomic status. Articles critically examine representations of fat in health and medical sciences, the Health at Every Size model, the pharmaceutical industry, psychology, sociology, cultural studies, legal issues, literature, pedagogy, art, theater, popular culture, media studies, and activism.
Fat Studies is an interdisciplinary, international field of scholarship that critically examines societal attitudes and practices about body weight and appearance. Fat Studies advocates equality for all people regardless of body size. It explores the way fat people are oppressed, the reasons why, who benefits from that oppression and how to liberate fat people from oppression. Fat Studies seeks to challenge and remove the negative associations that society has about fat and the fat body. It regards weight, like height, as a human characteristic that varies widely across any population. Fat Studies is similar to academic disciplines that focus on race, ethnicity, gender, or age.