Start date Jan 2010

Period of study 4 years as part of the new Manchester Doctoral College PhD programme

Scope of research

This structured PhD is inspired by the need to conduct rigorous, in-depth research and analysis on the impact and outcomes of contemporary and historical crises. It is driven by a desire to inform and support policy and decision makers (inc. World Health Organisation, Foreign Office), to optimise joint working between partner organisations, and to foster increased understanding and debate within the field of humanitarianism. We will offer a flexible approach to the provision of teaching to cater for the current needs of the aid industry and prepare the next generation of crisis response researchers and practitioners. The programme will seek to engage directly with people affected by situations of ongoing conflicts and crises.

This PhD therefore reflects the need for structured forms of professional development and dynamic knowledge practices that function effectively across multiple academic and non-academic contexts. Action research and reflective practice-inspired pedagogy can respond to and influence the complex, unpredictable and shifting social, political and cultural contexts within which professional practitioners operate. The PhD will introduce students to a range of dynamic and challenging concepts and methods with which to reflect critically and constructively on their current professional experience/context. This pedagogical approach enables students’ professional context to become a primary research resource.

Salford Royal PhD Research Studentship

The Salford Royal PhD studentship is funded by Undergraduate Medical Education to support research into Global Health and related matters and their place and development in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum. In addition to their research commitments, holders of the studentship will be required to teach global health issues to medical students at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust for one half day per week.

The HCRI will award the Salford Royal PhD Research Studentship for the academic year 2009/10 (Jan 2010 start date). This studentship of £11,250 per annum consists of a maintenance award in addition to full payment of tuition fees. It will be awarded subject to satisfactory progress for a period of four years.The award holder will be expected to undertake an element of teaching or administrative work as a condition of her/his award.

Applicants for the Scholarship should hold or be expecting a First Class degree award, and/or a Distinction in a related Masters degree. Applicants who hold a good 2:1 in their first degree will be considered on merit. Applicants should include full details of any teaching experience or areas of expertise on their application form. Applications including a 500 - 1000 words research statement must be returned by 1 December 2009.

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Jenny Peterson at jenny.h.peterson@manchester.ac.uk

For further details about how to apply please visit www.hcri.ac.uk

Location: Germany
Start date: February 1st, 2010
Salary: 30.000 € - 47.000 € per year
Contract type: Full time
Contract term: temporary

UNIVERSITAT POTSDAM

The University of Potsdam, Project “Marie-Curie-Initial Training Network ENGLOBE Enlightenment and Global History” offers preferably to the February 1st, 2010

14 Marie Curie PhD Fellowships

All fellowships include funding for 3 years. The Living and mobility allowances are between around 30.000 € and 47.000 € per year.

The Potsdam University is Co-ordinator of the Marie-Curie-Initial Training Network ENGLOBE Enlightenment and Global History which is funded by the European Union in the 7th Framework Programme. ENGLOBE is an interdisciplinary network of researchers seeking to develop historical perspectives on the changing interactions and interrelations between Europe and other world regions, thus promoting an understanding of the cultural and historical dimensions of current globalization processes. European academic partner institutions in the project are Universitat Potsdam (DE), Universidade de Coimbra (PT), Uni-versite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (FR), Uniwersytet Zielonogorski (PL), Technische Universitat Berlin (DE), National University of Ireland Galway (IE), Middle East Technical University Ankara (TR), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Madrid (ES), Queen’s University Belfast (UK).

Responsibilities:

Selected graduates will take part in the ENGLOBE training programme and do their PhD in the field of Enlightenment and Global History Research. This concerns research on European and Extra-European relationships within the 18th Century as well as on reception processes and systematic questions of globalization until today. The dissertation should be situated in one of the following four thematic areas:

•comparative history and transfers of knowledge and sciences
•comparative patterns of perception
•values in hybrid cultural spaces
•extra-European and European cultural models of “evolution”
Requirements:

•good primary degree in the humanities (history, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, art history or similar fields)
•high motivation in performing interdisciplinary research
•fluent English; additional languages would be advantageous
•mobility (the willingness to live and work in a foreign country)
Important:

Graduates will be hosted at one of the partner institutions mentioned above. At the time of selection researchers should not have resided or received education or employment in the state of this hosting partner institution for a period exceeding 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment. For information about the Marie Curie mobility rules please consult: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/home_en.html

For more detailed information about the ENGLOBE Programme please visit our homepage: http://www.engIobe-itn.net

The University of Potsdam is an equal opportunity employer.

Please send your application (including a formal letter of application with contact details, outline of research interests, declaration of motivation, Curriculum Vitae, graduation certificates and an outline (3 pages) of your proposed PhD project) until the December 15th, 2009 to Prof. Dr. Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile, Project manager ENGLOBE, University of Potsdam, Historisches Institut, Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 6, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany or via email: daprile@uni-potsdam.de

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