We are looking for a junior researcher for our project Transforming Intersectional Discrimination: Resilience and Agency of Displaced Roma.
In research and teaching, the team pursues critical perspectives on various forms of physical and psychological insecurity and their consequences for politics and society during and after violent conflict. In particular, current research projects focus on the role of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, social media or space technologies in collective violence (riots, genocide), micro-level approaches in international relations and conflict studies (perpetrators, victims, upstanders), the (inter)national politics of memory, and discrimination and resilience amongst marginalised groups (particularly Roma refugees). We are interested both in the dynamics during the violent events themselves and in the consequences for societies once the violence has ended.
Our research projects are explicitly empirical and comparative in nature and draw on critical approaches that highlight the role of ideas and ideologies, language and identities, collective dynamics and individual agency, whilst considering the broader political and cultural contexts to be essential.
We are affiliated with the Institute for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Political Science, and are active in the interdisciplinary research centre RISK, where Timothy Williams has also been co-chairman since 2021.
