Dear colleagues,
Please bring these 3 PhD studentships to the attention of your students
interested in these areas, and please circulate among your relevant
networks. We are extending the deadline because we did not get a
satisfactory pool of candidates and we'd like to consider more
applications.
thanks and best,
Laura Morales
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Deadline extended to 23.59h, 24th June 2012
We are currently recruiting for the following positions:
*2 PhD studentships fully funded by the European Research Council
Starting Grant**Democratic Responsiveness in Comparative Perspective:
How Do Democratic Governments Respond to Different Expressions of Public
Opinion?* (RESPONSIVEGOV), led by Dr Laura Morales. The successful
applicants will be expected to undertake their theses within the scope
of the project and to assist in data collection tasks that will also
form the basis of their own theses. As such the students will be
expected to undertake a comparative study of 2-4 western democracies
covered by the project. More information and applications on:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/responsive-government
*1 PhD studentship jointly with the Department of Economics in the area
of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties*that will pay full-time UK/EU
fees plus stipend and RTSG for three years. We seek excellent students
with training both in economics and politics, and with an interest (as
indicated by their Masters' degree and dissertation) in the areas of
elections, parties and public opinion. We invite candidates to outline
their own personal research proposal in one of the following lines of
research: (1) elections and party competition, (2) party/governmental
ideology and policy formulation, (3) citizens' attitudes and policy
preferences. More information and applications on:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/elections
For any queries about suitable topics, language or methods skills
requirements, please contact [log in to unmask]
best regards,
Laura
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On 29/05/2012 13:43, Benoit Rihoux wrote:
> Hello -- below 2 job opportunities at UCLouvain (Belgium)
>
> Prof. Benoît Rihoux
>
> ======
> Job opportunities
> 2 full-time researcher positions (PhD researchers, M/F) in political
> science
> At the UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), within the framework of the
> PARTIREP Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP)
>
> The broader PARTIREP project
> PARTIREP is a large interuniversity project operating over 5 years
> (second phase, 2012-2016), with a focus on participation and
> representation, through a comparative study of linkage mechanisms
> between citizens and the political system in contemporary democracies.
> It will bring together about 12 PhD students as well as a broad group
> of senior researchers, and will conduct different sub-projects around
> partisan and electoral political representation, the personalization
> of politics, and democratic innovation. It will involve extensive
> collection and analysis of data within Belgium, as well as comparative
> analyses across Europe, and will use a broad range of methodologies.
>
> Job status & conditions
> - 48 months
> - Start: 1 August or 1 Sept or 1 Oct 2012 (to be discussed)
> - Full-time (1 employed with salary, 1 employed as bursary; more
> or less equivalent net wage)
> - Mandatory PhD research
> - Based full-time at UCLouvain
> - Operating within a stimulating research environment at the
> Center for Political Science and Comparative Politics (CESPOL), and
> interacting with a broad pool of senior researchers and ca. 12 PhD
> researchers in the PARTIREP project.
>
> Generic skills/qualifications (both positions)
> - Master in political science or sociology (political sociology)
> [diploma by Sept 2012 at the latest]
> - High academic results
> - Full mastery of French as working language
> - Good passive knowledge of Dutch
> - Good passive & active knowledge of English (written & spoken)
> - Quantitative and qualitative methodological skills
> - Strong ability to work in a team
> - Motivation to participate in conferences, workshops, to take
> part in further methodological training and in publications
> - Good knowledge of Belgian context
>
> Profile 1
> - Thematic project(for PhD research): Mass-elite issue
> congruence (surveys among voters and elites about issue preferences)
> - Specific skills (methodological): survey design, data
> collection (quantitative), quantitative data analysis (various
> statistical techniques)
> - Working knowledge of at least one of the following packages:
> SPSS, STATA, R.
>
>
> Profile 2
> - Thematic project(for PhD research): Behavior of elites and
> candidates in political parties, and candidate selection in political
> parties
> - Specific skills (substantive): party politics and/or political
> campaigning
> - Specific skills (methodological): skills in different
> methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, comparative (QCA),
> experimental, ...)
>
> Instructions for applications:
> - Deadline: 30 June 2012
> - Send the following 2 documents (electronic format only; PDF)
> to Mrs Françoise Welvaert [log in to unmask] :
> o CV (including detailed academic results, year by year)
> o Letter of motivation (please indicate clearly whether you
> apply for the "Profile 1" or the "Profile 2" position)
> - Selection (interviews): 11, 12 or 13 July, in Louvain-la-Neuve
> (Belgium)
> - Queries to be sent to: Prof. Benoît Rihoux (in charge of
> PARTIREP for UCLouvain) [log in to unmask] .
>
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