We would love to see applications to this scheme from AoIR colleagues who'd like to spend time with our Digital Societies research group within the Department of Sociology. Best wishes Christine Christine Hine Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK c.hine@surrey.ac.uk ________________________________ Please forward to any relevant email lists Apologies for any cross-posting. VISITING INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP for visits in calendar year 2020 https://www.surrey.ac.uk/department-sociology/research/visiting-internationa... The Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, has an established Visiting International Fellowship (VIF) to foster the development of links with international scholars who are normally at least 5 years post doctorate. The Fellowship is an exciting opportunity for scholars to visit the Department, contribute to its academic life and form new collaborations. The focus of the Fellowship can be on social research methods, in the broadest sense, a key strength and unifying feature of the Department, or on a substantive area of interest within the Department (see here<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/department-sociology/research> for details of our research clusters, centres and staff interests). Applicants will normally hold, or recently have held, an established academic appointment in social science. The Fellowship committee regrets that it cannot consider applications from candidates seeking training or the updating of methodological skills. Proposals for collaborative research with members of the Department of Sociology are especially welcome. An award of £2,500 will be made as a contribution towards travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses incurred in holding the Fellowship. It is expected that award holders will normally be on paid leave of absence from their employment and should be prepared to visit the Department on one or two occasions during the academic year with a duration of about one month in total. Ideally, this will occur during May and November, but other times are possible. VIFs will become honorary Research Fellows of the University of Surrey and be entitled to use the University Library and make use of University facilities. The holder of a Fellowship is usually permanently resident outside the United Kingdom. VIF holders have included: Dariusz Jemielniak (Kozminski University), Barbara Perry (University of Ontario Institute of Technology), Catherine Harnois (Wake Forest University), Premalatha Karupiah (Universiti Sains Malaysia), Peter Davis (Auckland), David Morgan (Portland State), David De Vaus (La Trobe), Ed Brent (Missouri), Norman Blaikie (Emeritus, Universiti Sains Malaysia), Irwin Deutscher (Akron), Edith de Leeuw (Utrecht), Seppo Laaksonen (Helsinki), Luis Antunes (Lisbon), Ming Yan (Beijing), Cesar Cisneros (Mexico), Tom W Smith (Chicago), Bob Belli (Lincoln), Jin-Kyu Jung (Grand Forks), Carl Roberts (Iowa), Warren Thorngate (Ottawa), Linda Williams (Massachusetts Lowell) and Gerd Wagner (Germany). Applications must be received by 16.00GMT on Friday 11 October 2019 for visits during the calendar year 2020. Applications must be made on the application form posted on the VIF website noted below. Application forms should be submitted by email as an attachment. To ensure parity for all candidates, there can be no extension to this deadline. We aim to communicate decisions by 17:00GMT on Friday 22 November 2019. The application form and more information about the Visiting International Fellowship, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, are available at: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/department-sociology/research/visiting-internationa... VIF Convenor: Professor Andrew King (email: andrew.king@surrey.ac.uk) VIF Administrator: Louise Jones (email: l.jones@surrey.ac.uk) Head of Department: Professor Jon Garland Christine Hine Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK c.hine@surrey.ac.uk