Job Reminder: Job: Postgraduate Research Assistant Ethnomusicology (100%), Siegen

Bewerbungsdeadline: 31. Januar 2021
Weitere Informationen: https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Postgraduate-Research-Assistant-Ethnomusicology-57076/636894201/

The University of Siegen is a modern university with an international orientation and a focus on interdisciplinary research. It currently has around 18,000 students and covers a range of research fields from the humanities, social and economic sciences to natural sciences, engineering and life sciences. With over 2,000 employees, the university is one of the largest employers in the region and offers a unique environment for teaching, study, research and knowledge transfer.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

In the Faculty II – Education – Architecture – Arts, in the subject music, we are looking for a postgraduate research assistant to 01.02.2021 at the following conditions:  

  • 100% = 39,83 weekly hours

  • Pay group 13 TV-L

  • temporary 31.01.2024

YOUR TASKS:

The position is intended to facilitate the academic qualification, specifically a German habilitation (post doctorate degree). You will be teaching two courses (4 hours per week) and working closely with the chair of music education and its staff. Within this framework you have the opportunity to further and follow your own research interests.

YOUR PROFILE:

  • PhD in the fields of (applied) ethnomusicology, ideally related to music teaching (formal and informal),

  • familiarity with discourses in music education or sociology of music education,

  • visible focus on interdisciplinary ethnomusicological research related to educational contexts (classroom, communities, policies etc.)

  • original fieldwork in areas related to Applied Ethnomusicology

  • experience with different methodologies (preferably qualitative research, videography etc.)

  • strong research interest in the overlapping areas between ethnomusicology and music education

  • capability to identify additional areas of research interests that could result in new seminar offerings as part of our music-curriculum (with regard to music practice as well as a culturally sensitive classroom music teaching).

OUR OFFER:

We offer a modern working environment at an institution which is host to scholars from throughout the world. Candidates have at their disposal an excellent library and various possibilities for a fruitful interdisciplinary research in an active and friendly atmosphere. The salary and benefits conform to the German civil service pay scale.

The Department of Music and Arts and the chair in Music Education prepare classroom teachers from primary to secondary school and put not only a strong emphasis on musical practice, but have a noticeable profile in comparative music education, musicology and popular music studies. It also seeks to further its expertise into areas of inter-/transcultural music education.

We look forward to receiving your application by  31.01.2021 .

Please apply exclusively via our application portal (https://jobs.uni-siegen.de). Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications in paper form or by e-mail.

CONTACT:

Prof. Dr. Bernd Clausen

0271/ 740 - 2563

bernd.clausen@uni-siegen.de

The University of Siegen is an equal opportunity employer. The call for applications is explicitly aimed at people of all genders (m/f/d); applications from women are given preference in accordance with the North Rhine-Westphalian Equal Opportunities Act (Landesgleichstellungsgesetz). We also welcome applications from people with different personal, social and cultural backgrounds, people with severe disabilities and people of equal status.

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