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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,
Essex,
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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