Denmark : PhD scholarship Citizenship, Volunteering and Organise 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 1^st 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 (14^th 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 Roskilde
Att.: Janni Villadsen

Deadline for applications is 14^th of August 2009 at 12.00 noon.
Material received after this time will not be taken into account.

Application Deadline : 14 August 2009

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Posted on 2009-08-10 07:01:21

The announced deadline for above scholarship is expired and new applications may no longer be accepted. The notice is available for reference purpose only.

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