Sr. Research Fellow in Islamic Studies & International Terrorism
Faculty/department Technology, Policy and Management
Level PhD degree
Maximum employment 38 hours per week (1 FTE)
Duration of contract 4,5 years
Salary scale €4,712 to €5,735 per month gross
Technology, Policy and Management
The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management contributes to sustainable solutions for technical challenges in society by combining the insights from engineering with the humanities and the social sciences.
The Department of Values, Technology and Innovation (VTI) is one of three departments in the TPM Faculty. It uniquely comprises philosophers, economists and risk scholars. It studies how to develop and diffuse responsible technological innovations that reflect deeply held social and moral values. The department is one of the largest groups in the world studying value aspects, economics and risks for a wide range of sociotechnical systems. The department plays a leading role nationally and internationally in research in responsible innovation and value-sensitive design.
The Ethics and Philosophy of Technology section is one of three sections within the VTI Department. The section plays a central role worldwide in research on ethics and philosophy of technology. The group's research covers a broad spectrum, ranging from applied research in collaboration with engineering scholars, experimental and empirical ethics in collaboration with social scientists, and foundational research in meta-ethics, risk theory, ontology and philosophy of science and design, and in applied logic. The ethics research programme focuses specifically on risk ethics, RI and VSD.
Job description
Professor Seumas Miller has recently secured a European Research Council Advanced Grant (€ 2.5 million) to undertake research on Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility: Redesigning Military, Police and Intelligence Institutions in Liberal Democracies. The research team will be located at TU Delft’s campus in The Hague, the Netherlands, and will comprise: Professor Miller (Principal Investigator), one senior research fellow, one post-doctoral fellow, a research assistant and two PhD students: one in computer science, ethics and security, and the other in international relations, ethics and counter-terrorism.
Contemporary liberal democracies must collaborate with one another to face the common problem of international terrorism. How should counter-terrorist institutional arrangements be structured and what counter-terrorist tactics should be pursued? How can these arrangements and tactics manage to be morally permissible as well as efficacious? This multi-disciplinary research project has as its main objective to provide an answer or set of answers to these pressing, yet highly complex and problematic, normative questions. While this question is essentially one of moral permissibility and, as such, one within applied philosophy (specifically, applied ethics), it requires empirical input. Crucially, it requires input from a scholar with expertise in Islamic Studies and International Terrorism. The successful applicant will conduct research on Islamic terrorist groups.
The applicant is expected to:
• Conduct original research on Islamic terrorist groups within the focus area of the ERC grant.
• Prepare translations of relevant academic and non-academics works.
• Contribute academic publications to the edited collections.
• Publish in international refereed journals.
• Participate in workshops.
Requirements
Requirements:
The applicant has the following qualifications:
• A PhD in Islamic Studies with a strong background in terrorism studies.
• Expertise in academic research methods particularly with qualitative social science methods.
• A substantial publication record.
• Fluency in the Arabic language as well as in the English language.
• A background in political philosophy is desirable.
• A record of successful research grant applications is desirable.
Conditions of employment
The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount for health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged. An International Children’s Centre offers childcare and an international primary school. Dual Career Services offers support to accompanying partners. Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
Information and application
For more information about this position or to apply, please contact D. Droog, phone: +31 (0)15-2785143, email: [email protected]. To apply, please e-mail a detailed CV, list of publications and references, and three samples of published scientific work along with a letter of application by 1 May 2016 to M. Koning, [email protected].
When applying for this position, please refer to vacancy number ATTBM16.007.
