PhD scholarship Citizenship, Volunteering and Organised Civil Society- A European Perspective – Denmark
June 15, 2009PhD scholarship Citizenship, Volunteering and Organised Civil Society. A European Perspective
The PhD programme of Welfare, Governance and Citizenship within the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, hereby announces a PhD scholarship for a PhD project on a comparative study of ‘Citizenship, Volunteering and Organised Civil Society – A European perspective’. (The PhD project is described more in detail at the homepage of ISG: www.ruc.dk/isg/phd-programme). The scholarship will be available from 1st of September 2009 or soon after.
The scholarship
covers a period of three years. It is a condition for a successful project that the candidate is fluent in one of the Scandinavian languages. The successful applicant will be asked to contribute with 500 hours of work to the Department (teaching at one of the Department’s Master’s programmes and dissemination of research to a broader audience etc.). The annual salary is based on previous governmental employments and the general agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) (annually by October 1, 2008: 249.777 – 328.784 DKK + pension contribution). The successful candidate should also preferably stay six to twelve months abroad. For the purpose of this project the graduate school is cooperating with Centre for research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector, Institute for Social Research (ISF), Oslo, Stockholm School of Economics, and Tilburg University (SCP), the Netherlands.
We are looking for a candidate with a master’s degree (or equivalent) in sociology, political science, public administration or a similar graduate background
The successful applicant
will be enrolled in the PhD Programme of Welfare, Governance and Citizenship and will have to comply with the rules of the Danish Ministerial Order on the PhD programme at Universities (14th of January 2008): http://www.ubst.dk/lovgivning/Ph%20d%20-bekendtgorelsen%20-%20engelsk%20oversettelse%20DOK462957.pdf
For further information
please contact the Head of Department: Dr Gorm Rye Olsen (gormrye@ruc.dk), the director of the PhD Programme: Prof Eva Sørensen (eva@ruc.dk), or the planned supervisor: Prof. Thomas P. Boje (boje@ruc.dk). For more information about the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, please see: www.ruc.dk/isg
The application
must be in English and include a CV, documentation (copies) of examinations passed and a project description of maximum 5 pages. The description should include an outline of the problem area to be studied – here the enclosed description of the project must be reflected – , the research questions raised, the theoretical approach taken and methodological considerations, as well as a work and time plan. The project description and other material should be forwarded in three hard copies to:
Roskilde University
Department of Society and Globalisation
Building 24.2
Postbox 260
DK-4000 Roskide
Att.: Janni Villadsen
Deadline for applications is 14th of August 2009 at 12.00 noon.
Material received after this time will not be taken into account.
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I am a staff candidate at the University of Lagos where I am registered for the Ph.D programme. Owing to my interest in Social Policy and Planning, Political Sociology, as well as my P.hD work focsing on The State and Career Aspiration of Nigerian Students in a Globalising World, I will be highly interested in your Ph.D scholarship offer on CITIZENSHIP, VOLUNTEERING AND ORGANISED CIVIL SOCIETY IN EUROPE.
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Sisay Gobessa
Haramaya university
P.O.box 282 Haramaya , Ethiopia
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