02 PhD and 01 Postdoctoral Scholarship: Migrants’ Social Protection Strategies 1276 views

The Faculty of Social Sciences (FaSS), Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the Université de Liège invites applications for scholarships to work at doctoral and post-doctoral level as part of the Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-)crisis Europe project (MiTSoPro).

Starting date: September 2018

Duration:

• Doctoral positions: full-time, fixed-term; 3 years
• Post-doctoral position: full-time, fixed-term; 3 years

Requirements:

For Doctoral positions:

• MA in Social Sciences viz., Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Political Science
• Experience conducting ethnographic fieldwork
• Specialty in social policy and/or migration is an asset
• Language skills: English plus (at least) one of the following: Arabic, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian or Spanish

For postdoc position:

• PhD in Social Sciences viz., Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Political Science
• Experience in conducting ethnographic fieldwork at the doctoral level
• Research experience in social policy and/or migration is an asset
• The applicant must have obtained a doctoral degree within the last eight years or be in a position to obtain a doctoral degree before 1 November 2018.
• 2 published articles in international peer-reviewed journals
• Language skills: English plus (at least) one of the following: Arabic, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian or Spanish
• The applicant must not have resided/been employed/been a student in Belgium for more than 24 months during the 3 years before the start of the postdoctoral contract

How to apply:

• Apply electronically (in English) to [email protected] (with a copy to [email protected]) quoting ‘MiTSoPro_PhD’.
• The following documents must be attached to the e-mail in two separate PDF files: motivation letter (maximum 800 words); CV; contact details of two references
• one writing sample (maximum 10,000 words)