Research Fellow/ Senior Research Fellow Appointment In Changing Family & Migration

At Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

The Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore invites applications for a two-year position within one of the two research foci: "The changing family in Asia" or "Migration". Applicants for the position at the Senior Research Fellow level would need to be established scholars with a strong research record. Applicants at the Research Fellow level would also need a strong research record, but could be at an earlier career stage. Successful applicants will be expected not only to pursue their own research at the highest level, but also to assist in mentoring postdoctoral fellows and doctoral candidates brought into the program to work for shorter periods of time within the research focus. Stress in research will be on South-East Asia, but work in East and South Asia is not precluded. Cross-disciplinary work is viewed favourably.

The successful candidate will be appointed on a two-year, renewable contract.

" The focus on 'the changing family in Asia' explores the dimensions of family change in the region, their causes and implications. These dimensions include rising ages at marriage and increasing non-marriage, declining fertility and declining size of the nuclear family, increase in one-person households and alternative family forms, changing gender roles within families, and changes in family structures consequent on population ageing. They have implications for gender relations, changing childhoods, parenting roles, the life patterns of the post-adolescent unmarried, the role of the elderly in the family, and social policy.

" The focus on migration explores the causes and consequences of increased levels of human mobility in the region, both within and across national borders, and associated social, economic and political issues. Mobility of high-level professional and managerial personnel, unskilled labour migration (both documented and undocumented), and human trafficking all raise methodological and theoretical questions and major policy issues, as does the role of migration in urban change.

Interested applicants are invited to email/facsimile/mail their curriculum vitae, and a description of the research program envisaged by 15 June 2004 to the address below. You should also arrange for at least three referees' reports to be sent confidentially to the same address by the same deadline to:

Christopher Anthony
Manager
Asia Research Institute
5 Arts Link, Level 4
AS7, Shaw Foundation Building
Singapore 117570
Fax: 65 6779 1428
Email: joinari@nus.edu.sg

The Asia Research Institute is a university-level institute established in July 2001 as one of the strategic initiatives of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The mission of the Institute is to provide a world-class focus and resource for research on the Asian region, located at one of its communication hubs. It covers the social sciences broadly defined, and especially interdisciplinary frontiers between and beyond social science disciplines. Through frequent provision of short-term research appointments it seeks to be a place of encounters between the region and the world, supporting conferences, lectures and graduate study at the highest level. Professor Anthony Reid became the initial director in July 2002, and Professor Gavin Jones was appointed from August 2003 to head the research focus on 'the changing family in Asia'.

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	« Return to Job Opportunities Research Fellow/ Senior Research Fellow Appointment In Changing Family & Migration At Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore The Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore invites applications for a two-year position within one of the two research foci: "The changing family in Asia" or "Migration". Applicants for the position at the Senior Research Fellow level would need to be established scholars with a strong research record. Applicants at the Research Fellow level would also need a strong research record, but could be at an earlier career stage. Successful applicants will be expected not only to pursue their own research at the highest level, but also to assist in mentoring postdoctoral fellows and doctoral candidates brought into the program to work for shorter periods of time within the research focus. Stress in research will be on South-East Asia, but work in East and South Asia is not precluded. Cross-disciplinary work is viewed favourably. The successful candidate will be appointed on a two-year, renewable contract. " The focus on 'the changing family in Asia' explores the dimensions of family change in the region, their causes and implications. These dimensions include rising ages at marriage and increasing non-marriage, declining fertility and declining size of the nuclear family, increase in one-person households and alternative family forms, changing gender roles within families, and changes in family structures consequent on population ageing. They have implications for gender relations, changing childhoods, parenting roles, the life patterns of the post-adolescent unmarried, the role of the elderly in the family, and social policy. " The focus on migration explores the causes and consequences of increased levels of human mobility in the region, both within and across national borders, and associated social, economic and political issues. Mobility of high-level professional and managerial personnel, unskilled labour migration (both documented and undocumented), and human trafficking all raise methodological and theoretical questions and major policy issues, as does the role of migration in urban change. Interested applicants are invited to email/facsimile/mail their curriculum vitae, and a description of the research program envisaged by 15 June 2004 to the address below. You should also arrange for at least three referees' reports to be sent confidentially to the same address by the same deadline to: Christopher Anthony Manager Asia Research Institute 5 Arts Link, Level 4 AS7, Shaw Foundation Building Singapore 117570 Fax: 65 6779 1428 Email: joinari@nus.edu.sg The Asia Research Institute is a university-level institute established in July 2001 as one of the strategic initiatives of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The mission of the Institute is to provide a world-class focus and resource for research on the Asian region, located at one of its communication hubs. It covers the social sciences broadly defined, and especially interdisciplinary frontiers between and beyond social science disciplines. Through frequent provision of short-term research appointments it seeks to be a place of encounters between the region and the world, supporting conferences, lectures and graduate study at the highest level. Professor Anthony Reid became the initial director in July 2002, and Professor Gavin Jones was appointed from August 2003 to head the research focus on 'the changing family in Asia'. Return to top of page