From time to time the institute advertises fellowships in ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY and elsewhere. These are hosted not at the RAI, but at appropriate institutions in the United Kingdom.

URGENT ANTHROPOLOGY FELLOWSHIP

RAI Fellowship in Urgent Anthropology hosted by the University of Kent at Canterbury, 2007-2010

The Fellowship, supported by the Anthropologists’ Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research (Founding Sponsor Dr George N. Appell) is designed to facilitate ethnographic research on currently threatened indigenous peoples, cultures and languages. Such research should, as a primary aim, contribute to anthropological knowledge through detailed ethnography, and also if possible help such peoples in their particular circumstances.

The twelfth Fellowship will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. The successful candidate will take up the Fellowship from 1 July in the year of appointment or as early as possible thereafter. Applicants are invited to submit budgeted projects costed at up to £23,500, to last approximately 18 months, with a minimum of one year and maximum of two years, this period to include field research and writing-up. All costs including subsistence, transport and medical insurance must be included in the budget. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute actively to the research activities of the Department and to reside for the main part in Canterbury when writing up. He/she will also be expected to publish the results of the research. The closing date for receiving applications is 1 March each year.

Applicants must either already have a doctoral qualification or equivalent in anthropology, or be nearing completion of doctoral research. The fellowships are open to all without discrimination of ethnic or national origin, residence, etc.

Application details are available on the University of Kent website at http://www.kent.ac.uk/jobs/research/RAI%20Fellowship.html

Applications and initial enquiries should be sent to:

Mrs Susan Simpson

Academic Administrator

Department of Anthropology

Marlowe Building

University of Kent

Canterbury, Kent

CT2 7NR

United Kingdom

Telephone +44 (0)1227 824 742

Fax +44 (0)1227 827 289

Email sjs@kent.ac.uk

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LEACH/RAI FELLOWSHIP

The Leach/RAI Fellowship was established by the Trustees of the Esperanza Trust to honor the memory of the founder of the Trust, Sir Edmund Leach, and further his expressed aim of promoting anthropology.

The host institution will advertise the vacancies annually in a manner calculated to ensure international competition. A contribution to the salary is made by the Esperanza Trust and there is an allowance of a token recompense towards an appropriate advisor at the Institution hosting the Fellowship.

Applications are invited for the 2007-8 Leach-RAI Fellowship, tenable at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, for one year from 1 October 2007. The Fellowship is open to a social or cultural anthropologist of any nationality who has received his/her doctorate from an institution in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland within the five years preceding takeup of the award, and who would be able to use the Fellowship to complete, within the time limit, a substantial piece of work for publication. The award in Euros will be at an appropriate point on the NUIM research salary scale, plus superannuation.

Potential applicants wishing to have an informal discussion about the Fellowship should contact Professor Lawrence Taylor, Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Tel: + 353 (1) 7083984, email: anthropology.office@nuim.ie, website: www.nuim.ie

Application forms and further particulars of the appointment, including salary, are available from the following, to whom applications should be addressed: Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Tel: +353 (1) 7083984, email: anthropology.office@nuim.ie, website: www.nuim.ie

Applications should be accompanied by a full curriculum vitae, one or two articles or their equivalent (eg book or thesis chapters), details of the writing planned to be carried out under the Fellowship, and the names, addresses, fax (if applicable) and email of three referees.

The closing date for applications is 16 May 2007.

The Leach-RAI Fellowship programme is hosted by the National University of Ireland, Maynooth; and funded by the University and the Esperanza Trust for Anthropological Research.

Previous hosts were Manchester University (1991-1998), Edinburgh University (1999-2002) and University of Sussex (2003-2006). In 2002-3 and 2006-7 no fellowship was awarded and the programme was reviewed.

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