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Research Fellowships at the University of Essex
Readers of this list may be interested in the availability of fellowships to
support research visits to the European Centre for Analysis in the Social
Sciences (ECASS), located within the Institute for Social and Economic
Research at the UK University of Essex. ECASS is a major infrastructure for
European research and data analysis, supported by the Improving Human
Potential - Enhancing Access to Research Infrastructures Programme of the
European Commission. Now in its fourth year, it was set up to help
researchers gain access to existing facilities by providing travel and
subsistence support for short-term visitors to its resources at the
University of Essex.
ECASS is an interdisciplinary research centre which conducts and facilitates
the empirical study of social and economic change by integrating
longitudinal and cross-sectional European datasets, providing technical and
intellectual support services required for their analyses and acting as the
host for major substantive research programmes, primary among them being
longitudinal household panel studies and time budget studies.
ECASS can help researchers gain access to the existing facilities at Essex
by providing travel and subsistence support for visits up to three months,
using funds provided by the European Commission's Improving Human Potential
Enhancing Access to Research Infrastructures Programme. Researchers
visiting ECASS will be able to:
- collaborate with researchers producing the British Household Panel Study
and the European Community Household Panel Study within the Institute for
Social and Economic Research, and in comparative longitudinal research on
a variety of social and economic topics;
- take advantage of the resources of the national Data Archive with over
7,000 significant social indicators datasets,
- participate in the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
and Collection (through ECASS bursaries),
- have access to the resources of the national Qualitative Data Archival
Resource Centre
- enjoy the support services of the European Consortium for Political
Research
Interested researchers (postgraduate or postdoctoral) are invited to submit
individual or joint, comparative research proposals to ECASS. Only those
who are both citizens of, and employed in, European Union and Associated
countries (Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Israel, Bulgaria, Republic of
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia) are eligible. Scientific researchers carrying
out their research in the United Kingdom are not eligible for ECASS funding,
although European collaborators of British researchers qualify.
A Call for Proposals for these fellowships has been issued, with a deadline
of 31 March 2000. For Summer School bursaries, this deadline is
absolute. Other applications are considered at any time.
For more information, contact:
ECASS,
Institute for Social and Economic Research,
University of Essex,
Colchester, CO4 3SQ,
England
Tele: 44 (0)1206 873087
Fax: 44 (0)1206 872403
Email: [log in to unmask]
Or
See the ECASS Home Page at
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/ecass
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John Brice ([log in to unmask])
European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences
University of Essex, Colchester, UK CO4 3SQ
tel: +44 (0)1206 873543; fax: +44 (0)1206 873151
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