..... sign me up

[sometimes i read the job postings on london.craigslist.org instead of boston.craigslist.org. there's usually a lot of heavy,wistful sighing involved.]

Dear student

Are you interested in how the individual and society interact? Would you like to gain work experience over the summer that relates to your interests? Or do you know someone who would?

The Sussex Centre for the Individual and Society (SCIS) offers unpaid work experience/internships for this summer (from 3 weeks to 3 months).

SCIS is a new interdisciplinary research centre independent of the University of Sussex but run by Sussex postgraduate students in Social and Political Thought and situtated in an historic cottage right at the entrance of Sussex campus.

Have a look at some of our recent media coverage:
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5295656.stm
Guardian: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,,1861193,00.html
Times Higher Education Supplement:
http://www.thes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?story_id=2031978

SCIS' International Advisory Board includes world-renowned academics such as Prof John Friedmann (Urban Planning, University of British Columbia, UCLA), Prof Ernesto Laclau (Political Theory, Essex, Northwestern, New School for Social Research), Prof Francis Schuessler Fiorenza (Political Theology, Harvard), and Prof Michael Watts (Geography and Development Studies, International Studies, Berkeley).

Prof Joseph V. Femia (Political Theory, Liverpool) and Prof Alexander García Düttmann (Philosophy and Visual Cultures, London) are Senior Research Associates of SCIS.

Here's what you could be doing:

- assistance with research projects
- assistance with fundraising
- event organisation (e.g. prepare graduate seminars in autumn)
- general office work
- gardening (we’ve got our own private garden for hot summer days and barbecues)
- and much more

Please have a look at our website, www.scis-calibrate.org, and get in contact if you'd like to get more information or meet us to discuss possibilities.

We look forward to hearing from you.