University of Oxford African Studies Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in African Studies 2026 – YOA

Deadline: April 20, 2026

Applications for the University of Oxford African Studies Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in African Studies 2026 at the moment are open. The African Studies Centre (ASC) on the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) is looking for to nominate a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in African Studies for a two-yr mounted-time period place.

This fellowship affords an excellent OPPORTUNITY for an early-profession scholar to consolidate and launch their postdoctoral profession inside one of the world’s main centres for African Studies. Working underneath the supervision of Professor Rita Abrahamsen (Chair of African Studies), the profitable candidate will develop and pursue an formidable and authentic programme of analysis inside the broad thematic of “Africa and the World”, or Africa in the modern international order.

They are significantly in candidates whose analysis demonstrates a robust and clearly articulated agenda that situates Africa inside wider international, comparative, and transnational processes. Applicants from throughout the social sciences and humanities are welcome.

The Role

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will pursue an unbiased and bold programme of superior analysis inside African Studies, targeted on the thematic of Africa and the World or Africa in the modern international order. The profitable candidate will develop a clearly outlined and revolutionary analysis agenda that situates Africa inside broader international, comparative, and transnational processes, contributing substantively to mental debates inside and past the sphere.

The Fellow will put together analysis publications and work in the direction of publishing excessive-high quality outputs in main peer-reviewed journals and tutorial presses. They will current their analysis at tutorial conferences and University seminars, contributing to the visibility and scholarly profile of the African Studies Centre. In addition, the postholder will play a number one function in shaping and advancing the analysis thematic of “Africa and the World” at Oxford, serving to to strengthen the Centre’s place as a hub for chopping-edge scholarship on Africa in international perspective.

The function additionally includes organising analysis seminars and contributing to the event of conferences and collaborative tutorial initiatives. The postholder will contribute to instructing inside African Studies by providing an possibility course aligned with their experience and can supervise grasp’s dissertations on the MSc in African Studies. More broadly, the Fellow will take part actively in the mental life of the African Studies Centre and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, fostering a collaborative, respectful, and inclusive tutorial setting.

Benefits

Working on the University of Oxford affords a number of unique advantages, reminiscent of:

• 38 days of annual depart (inclusive of public holidays) to help your wellbeing, with the choice to buy as much as 10 further days and extra depart after lengthy service.
• One of probably the most beneficiant household depart schemes in UK greater training, providing as much as 26 weeks of full-pay maternity and adoption depart, plus 12 weeks of full-pay paternity/accomplice depart.
• An wonderful contributory pension scheme.
• Affordable and sustainable commuting choices, together with a cycle mortgage scheme, discounted bus journey, and season ticket loans.
• Access to a vibrant group via our social, cultural, and sports activities golf equipment.

Eligibility

• The profitable candidate will maintain, or be near completion of, a related doctorate by the point of the beginning of employment, and no sooner than three years earlier than 1st January 2026.
• Applicants from all tutorial fields will likely be thought of. They will be capable of reveal wonderful communication expertise, together with writing for publication, presenting analysis papers at tutorial seminars and conferences and publishing excessive-high quality analysis in peer-reviewed worldwide journals and presses.
• Further important standards for the function embody a dedication to instructing and supervising postgraduate college students.

They welcome purposes from candidates with earlier expertise in:

• delivering instructing and thesis supervision
• independently main a analysis programme and
• working collaboratively with researchers.

They are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and numerous tutorial setting. Applications are significantly welcome from ladies and Black and minority ethnic candidates, who’re underneath-represented in tutorial posts in Oxford.

Application

You will likely be requested to add a CV, a supporting assertion explaining the way you meet every of the choice standards for the put up in addition to a brief assertion of your proposed analysis undertaking. 

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For extra info, go to African Studies Centre (ASC) at the Oxford.