PhD SCHOLARSHIP – ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY
The PhD programme of Welfare, Governance and Citizenship within the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, hereby announces a PhD scholarship for a PhD project on a comparative study of ‘Citizenship, Volunteering and Organised Civil Society’ in different European welfare regimes. The scholarship will be available from April 2009 or soon after.
The scholarship covers a period of three years. The successful applicant will be asked to contribute with 500 hours of work to the Department (teaching at one of the Department’s Master’s programmes and dissemination of research to a broader audience etc.).
The annual salary is based on previous governmental employments and the general agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) (annually salary by October 1, 2008 is about 289.000 – 349.000 DKK + pension contribution). The successful candidate should also preferably stay at least six months abroad. For the purpose of this project the graduate school is cooperating with the Norwegian Institute for Social Research (ISF), Oslo, Norway and Tillburg University (SCP), the Netherlands.
Criteria:
We are looking for a candidate with a master’s degree (or equivalent) in sociology, political science, public administration or a similar graduate background
The successful applicant will be enrolled in the PhD Programme of Welfare, Governance and Citizenship and will have to comply with the rules of the Danish Ministerial Order on the PhD programme at Universities (14th of January 2008): http://www.ubst.dk/lovgivning/Ph%20d%20-bekendtgorelsen%20-%20engelsk%20oversettelse%20DOK462957.pdf
For further information
please contact the Head of Department: Dr Gorm Rye Olsen (gormrye@ruc.dk), the director of the PhD Programme: Prof Eva Sørensen (eva@ruc.dk), or the planned supervisor: Prof. Thomas P. Boje (boje@ruc.dk). For more information about the Department of Society and Globalisation and Roskilde University, please see: www.ruc.dk/isg
To apply:
The application must be in English and include a CV, documentation (copies) of examinations passed and a project description of maximum 5 pages. The description should include an outline of the problem area to be studied, the research questions raised, the theoretical approach taken and methodological considerations, as well as a work and time plan. The project description and other material should be forwarded in three hard copies to:
Roskilde University
Department of Society and Globalisation
Building 24.2
Postbox 260
DK-4000 Roskilde
Att.: Janni Villadsen
Deadline:
Deadline for applications is 2 March, 2009 at 12.00 noon.Material received after this time will not be taken into account.
