Application Deadline 15/04/2010
Fifteen ESRs will be recruited across the Network. Each will be expected to complete a doctorate on one of the three working groups’ topics. Early Stage Researchers should be in the first 4 years of their career (experience is counted at date of appointment) and have not yet obtained a PhD. The ESR must not have resided or carried out their main activity in the host country for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment.

The network programme is taught in English and is open to students from all countries with a Master’s degree in social sciences. Applicants must comply with the Marie Curie Actions rules for eligibility and mobility. Alongside their individual research projects, the ESRs will also design and conduct a comparative Education-as-Welfare survey that will serve as one aspect of their common methodological training and research in the ITN. Each ESR will benefit from a three year contract research appointment, a personal mobility allowance, funding for travel, international collaborations, secondments within the Working Group to other partners, and network wide training organized by the ITN network, including mentoring and supervision by a thesis committee within the European wide interdisciplinary network of academic and non-academic partners; regular seminars and project work at the host university; network wide training events; training for complementary skills; and career planning

Further information

Job starting date 01/07/2010

The selection of the ESRs will be done in line with the European Charter of Researchers and Equal opportunities policy.

How to apply?

Please send via E-Mail:

  • a C.V. giving information about your studies or professional career
  • 2 letters of recommendation from university teachers (who are not members of our project group)
  • a motivation letter
  • a summary (1000 words) of the bachelor or master thesis
  • an essay (8-10 pages) why you have chosen this special topic. The essay should also combine theoretical knowledge (e.g. Capability Approach and others) with some methodical remarks about the empirical instruments for the research.

To: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans Uwe Otto via E-Mail ( euprojects_otto@uni-bielefeld.de )

Source: http://www.eduwel-eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=60