This is a great opportunity, worth sharing with prospective PhD student
Ruth
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Subject: [CES-Social-Movements] Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD positions: Political Concepts in the World (POLITICO)
Forgive me for recirculating this, but it is a fantastic and rare opportunity to do PhD on social movements with a full salary!
This is a great opportunity for someone working in the area of social movements, political theory, democracy, cooperatives etc. and
hoping to do a PhD in the area with a very good salary and research support. There are six openings this year and there will be six next year. You get to do a fieldwork/stay in the second year, all fully funded. You are eligible if EU citizen and not lived
in UK more than 12 months in past 3 years. This is a requirement.
Please share this fantastic Marie Curie fully funded PHD opportunity in Politics (social movements, political theory, political history
etc.) with relevant lists and interested parties. Please note only EU nationals who have spent less than 12 months in the UK in the past 3 years are eligible.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD positions: Political Concepts in the World (POLITICO)
The University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme, is delighted
to offer six Early Stage Researcher (PhD) positions, lasting 3 years starting in September 2018, for ground-breaking research on how political concepts, such as citizenship, civil society and rule of law, are used in the world.
ESRs will complete a PhD with an inter-disciplinary supervisory team and benefit from a world-class training programme, including placements
with one or more of our 23 international partners. We welcome applicants from across the social sciences and humanities, including anthropology, cultural and literary studies, education, history, legal theory and socio-legal studies, philosophy, politics,
religious studies, sociology, and theology.
The ESRs will propose and develop their own research projects around the theme of how political concepts have been fostered historically, debated philosophically and
politically, fought over by social movements, codified in law, transmitted through education and the media, and lived out in everyday life. They will register for a PhD and work under the supervision of an interdisciplinary team of supervisors. They will receive
extensive training, including in engagement with non-academic audiences, which will include one or more placements with one of our 23 partners. They will also actively participate in the activities of the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and the Rule
of Law.
ESRs will be employed by the University on a salary of £26,075 per annum, and will be eligible for a range of additional benefits including ample travel and research
funding.
Candidates are required to meet the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher eligibility criteria. In particular, at the time of the appointment candidates must
have had less than 4 years full-time equivalent research experience and must not have already obtained a PhD. Additionally, they must not have resided in the UK for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the appointment.
These posts do not meet the minimum requirements as stipulated by UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) to qualify for an employer-sponsored visa. We are therefore unable
to consider applications from candidates who would require an employer-sponsored visa to work in the UK.
Deadline is 20th March 2018. Please click for Further Particulars and to apply. https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/270840
COFUND
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754326.
Members of UCU will be taking industrial action in February and March 2018 in order to resist damaging changes
to their pension scheme (USS) – changes that could cut pensions by up to £200,000. These pension cuts will have a devastating impact on staff recruitment and retention, ultimately leading to a decline in the quality of students’ education and profoundly affecting
the next generation of university staff. More
information on the dispute can be found here, and see
strike FAQs here.
“The severity of what we’re asking members to do is a measure of the devastating extent of the attack on the USS pension scheme, an attack that will rob members of tens of thousands
of pounds in retirement.” - Sally Hunt, UCU General Secretary
Cristina Flesher Fominaya, PhD. (Sociology, University California, Berkeley)
Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Aberdeen
Programme Coordinator, MSc in Sociology, University of Aberdeen
Founding Co-editor, Interface Journal
Co-editor, Social Movement Studies Journal, *New 2016 JCR Impact Factor
1.307
Latest publications:
(2017)
Navigating the Technology-Media-Movements Complex, Social Movement Studies, 16 (4) (with Kevin Gillan)
(2017)
European Anti-Austerity and Pro-democracy Movements in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis, Social Movement Studies, 16 (1) 1-20
(2017) Special Issue:
Technology, Media, and Social Movements, Social Movement Studies 16 (4) (with Kevin Gillan)
(2017) Special Issue:
Resisting Austerity: Collective Action in Europe in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis , Social Movement Studies 16 (1) (with Graeme Hayes)
(2017)
Life after the squares: reflections on the consequences of the Occupy movements, (with Amador Fernández-Savater)
(2016)
Cultural Barriers to Activist Networking, Antipode 48 (1) 151-171
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