CRILS Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Contract Type: Two year, Fixed term contract
Salary: £43,297.57 to £ 50,562.57 Inclusive of London Allowance
Location: Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom
SOAS University of London is the leading Higher Education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. SOAS University of London is positioned to play a leading role in reimagining higher education globally, with a new strategic plan in place as the basis for the renewal and revitalisation of the School which commits SOAS to both student responsiveness and research intensity. SOAS is moving towards a new model of international partnerships which is responsive to the transnational character of our global challenges.
About the Role:
The Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems (CRILS) Network aims to connect academics with practitioners (a broad term for non-academic collaborators - civil society and NGOs, activists and artists, investigative journalists, food systems workers, legal scholars, policymakers etc) to develop a critique of the drivers and negative externalities of industrial animal agriculture.
The CRILS Network Post Doctoral Research Fellow will deliver online and in-person workshops, convene thematic Working Groups (WG) to advance methodological approaches, and strengthen local networks with the overarching intention of facilitating challenging discussions, sharing research resources (data, expertise, analysis, theories), and building an interdisciplinary evidence base. The job holder will oversee all CRILS activities and communications, apply for further funding, and launch and participate in the CRILS Working Groups.
The position offers you the opportunity to develop their own research portfolio in line with CRILS research agenda while working with leading experts in industrial livestock systems. Research could focus on topics such as, but not limited to, the mechanisms of corporate concentration and financialisation of livestock production, labour movements in globalised industrial animal value chains, the political economy and/or ecology of the expansion of industrial animal agriculture in Global South contexts.
Over a two-year period, the research fellow will:
• Lead the delivery of two in-person workshops (spring 2026 and 2027)
• Facilitate collaborators to deliver online workshops annually (see www.crils.org for example of such workshops)
• Manage and participate in two Working Groups under supervision of the WG expert leads, including submission of research outputs to a peer review journal and other platforms
• Conduct ongoing network research into prominent academics and practitioners engaged in a critique of industrial animal agriculture
• Manage CRILS communications (written, online, in-person, and website)
• Attend relevant events, conferences and workshops to represent the CRILS Network
• Apply for grant funding to continue CRILS activities
This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and creative early career researcher to develop research expertise in political economy, political ecology, human geography, critical public health or similar disciplines, as well as project management skills.