Overview
The Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems (CRILS) Network aims to connect academics with practitioners (a broad term for non-academic collaborators such as 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 the opportunity to develop an individual research portfolio in line with the CRILS research agenda while collaborating 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, and the political economy and ecology of the expansion of industrial animal agriculture in Global South contexts.
Responsibilities
* 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 the 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.
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