MOVE POSTDOCTORAL GRANTS SWITZERLAND – MOBILITY STUDIES 2009 – UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE
University of Lausanne – Swiss PostDoctoral Grants 2009
The Swill Forum for Migration and Population Studies has announced a call for applications for the MOVE Postdoctoral Grant in Mobility Studies.
Call for applications: Post-Doctoral Grant (70%) in Mobility Studies
Deadline: August 30, 2009
MOVE is the Swiss interdisciplinary network for mobility studies, linking the universities of Neuchâtel (leading house), Berne, Lausanne, and Zürich. In addition to having created the Swiss Chair for Mobility Studies (a visiting professorship), MOVE offers four grants for post-doctoral studies on topics related to the mobility of persons, ideas, goods and institutions. Three post-doc research fellows have already been appointed and are working on issues related to the mobility of migrants (Bern), health practices (Zürich), and urban forms (Neuchâtel). The candidate who will be awarded the grant offered in the present call will be based at the University of Lausanne to conduct research on the mobility of higher education programmes and institutions, also called transnational or cross-border education.
The position starts in autumn/winter 2009-2010 (no later than January 2010).
Research area:
While the mobility of students crossing national boundaries is not a new phenomenon, the globalising education industry relies today upon additional forms of cross-border education such as “programme mobility” and “institutional mobility.” The mobility of educational models and institutions has indeed been fast increasing since the turn of the millennium, most notably with the opening of branch campuses of international universities in the Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern regions. This trend, alongside the intensifying movement of students, academic staff and curricula across borders, is both a response to, and a constitutive dimension of, globalisation. Given the mounting significance that an educated human workforce has for economic development in the current knowledge economy, such tendencies are expected to continue, especially in response to the needs for enhanced educational standards in the fast-growing developing economies of Asia and the Middle East.
Candidates with an interest and experience in this or a closely related field are invited to apply. In addition to carrying out his/her own research, the successful applicant will supervise and monitor two doctoral students working on the transnationalization of academic institutions. Given the current prominence of this phenomenon in Gulf countries, some knowledge of that region would constitute an advantage.
For more information, including duties and application procedures, please contact Dr. Peter Voll at peter.voll(AT)unine.ch or visit: www.migration-population.ch/page27832.html.
Contact:
Dr. Peter Voll, programme manager
Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies
Rue St-Honoré 2
CH – 2000 Neuchâtel
Phone: +41 (0) 32 718 39 32
Source: http://ihec-djc.blogspot.com/
i am into Shipping and Transport. I am currently doing my MSc with the Netherlands Maritime University.
I will be out in March 2010. Can I apply for this grant now? I have interest in the training of seafarers around the world especially in the Middle East and Vietnam areas. There is an acute shortage of seafarers in the world, and shipping being a truly global industry. I want to carry out a research on how this problem can be solved through the education of people from the Asian Region or the Middle East.
Thanks.