This Michaelmas Term (Oct-Dec) sees the launch of The Schweitzer Institute’s Research Fellowship. The successful candidate will be accommodated at Peterhouse, the oldest college at the University of Cambridge, as a Research Associate (see below). They will be given full dining rights and membership of the Senior Common Room at Peterhouse throughout the term, and will have access to all the amenities of the wider university. As there is no wage attached to the position, the ideal candidate may be an academic on sabbatical so he or she would continue to receive their salary.
The successful candidate will be expected to pursue their own research and to give a public lecture at Peterhouse. The subject of that lecture is not prescribed but should concern itself with a subject related to environmental ethics. It could be related to the research which the Research Associate is pursuing at that time, or it could be related to other work in progress. Towards the end of November there will be a conference in college on environmental ethics. The Research Associate will be expected to attend that conference and give a brief paper elaborating on the research they are doing at Peterhouse.
Applicants should write to director@schweitzer.institute with an up-to-date CV and a clear statement of the research they wish to undertake as a Research Associate. The deadline for submissions is the end of May, with interviews taking place in July.
‘The University of Cambridge was the door by which, in the beginning of the century, I entered England.’ Albert Schweitzer