A Post-doctoral Fellowhsip, University College Dublin
This 3-year post-doctoral post arises under the UCD Growing Up in Ireland Research Programme which is currently being designed and initiated in order to promote, coordinate and support research on data now coming on stream from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) Survey – the National Longitudinal Study of Children. The GUI Data Manager-Analyst will act in two main roles:
- a researcher carrying out independent and/or joint research on the GUI data;
- a data manager and technical statistical adviser serving other UCD researchers working on the programme.
The post-holder may also be requested to contribute to postgraduate teaching in UCD directly relevant to the GUI Research Programme. It is envisaged that the post-holder’s working time will be divided approximately as follows: 45 per cent on research, 45 per cent on data management and technical advice and 10 per cent on teaching.
Salary range: €35,000 – €52,000 p.a. Appointment on the above range will be commensurate with qualification and experience.
Closing date: 23:30hrs on Monday 28th June 2010. Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. UCD are unable to accept late applications.
All current recruitment which is taking place within UCD is dependent on non-Exchequer, external and self-funding sources of finance.
Informal enquiries ONLY to: Professor Tony Fahey, tony.fahey@ucd.ie.
For more information, check the following links: job description, supplementary information, guidelines for applicants.
A PhD position in Economic Sociology, University of Lausanne
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, The Institute of Social Sciences (MISC – Methodology, Inequalities and Social Change) looks for:
- 1 PhD Position – teaching and research assistant – in economic sociology
- (social policy, life course, social stratification and the labour market)
- Starting date: 01. 10. 2010
- Contract length: 1 year, extended twice for 2 years, conditional on progress of PhD project (up to a maximum of 5 years)
- Employment: Full-time, 100%
- Place of work: University of Lausanne, Switzerland
For a detailed description of the position, please click here.
Deadline for applications is 30 June 2010.
A vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher at the University College Dublin
University College Dublin has a vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher to work on a collaborative multi-institutional European research project funded by the EU’s Framework Programme on The Impact of Increasing Inequalities (GINI), with institutional partners the London School of Economics, the Universities of Amsterdam, Antwerp and Milan, and TARKI Research Institute in Budapest, involving leading social scientists from economics, sociology, political science, public health and social policy [see http://www.gini-research.org/articles/home].
The person appointed will conduct a specified programme of research and receive research training and development under the supervision and direction of Brian Nolan, the Principal Investigator at UCD. The primary purpose of the role is to further develop research skills and competences leading to publication in high-quality journals. For a detailed job description, click here. Informal enquiries may be made to brian.nolan@ucd.ie. The closing date for applications is May 21st.
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University: PhD
position in Sociology
SOFI at Stockholm University announces a PhD position in Sociology, within the project ”Social Stratification Dynamics”. Interested candidates should have a research focus related to stratification and
mobility, e.g., research on poverty, distributional inequality, and mobility within and across generations. The successful candidate, within this research orientation, will have ample opportunity to develop and
pursue a unique PhD project through access to high quality register data, although other data sources can also be used. The initial monthly salary is about 21600 SEK and the position is for 48 months.
The deadline for applications is May 15, 2010.
For more information, see the announcement at
http://www.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=11447&a=78163 and contact Erik
Bihagen (erik.bihagen@sofi.su.se) or Jan O. Jonsson
(janne.jonsson@sofi.su.se).
Labour Economics Summer School at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (GSE)
The Barcelona GSE Graduate School of Economics is offering the first edition of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School (BLSS) this summer for one intensive week, from June 21 to June 25, 2010. The school offers four 10-hours courses on:
- Determination of Wages (Derek Neal),
- Incentives in Organizations (Ghazala Azmat),
- Labor Market Outcomes (Robert Shimer),
- Topics in Personnel Economics (Maia Güell).
These courses should be of interest to graduate students or academics who want to expand their knowledge in the area and to practitioners interested in understanding the fundamentals of these issues.
Applications are already open! Deadline is May 31, 2010. For more details, please check: http://www.barcelonagse.eu/Barcelona_Labor_Economics_Summer_School.htmlUNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES : Tenure-track position in the Area of Sociology
The Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University invites applications for a tenure-track position as Lecturer to begin in September 2010.
Applicants should hold a PhD in Sociology, Economics or Demography; have a strong background in quantitative research methods, and be preferably specialized in the broad areas of social inequality and stratification, immigration or public policy evaluation.
Teaching duties include courses at both undergraduate and graduate level. The successful candidate is expected to become integrated in any of our ongoing, comparative research projects which focus on the following themes: changing relations between households and labor markets; the dynamics of life chances; women and employment; social policies; and the demography of transition to adulthood.
Our department combines research in political science, sociology and industrial relations. It offers degrees at both the undergraduate and doctoral level. It has been ranked among the best departments in Political Science in Europe, according to the ranking of the Center for Higher Education Development.
Applicants should send a reference letter and CV, including a description of their teaching and research experience, to:
Sra. Carme Casanovas Montañà
Secretary of Department of Political and Social Sciences
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: carme.casanovas@upf.edu
The deadline for completed applications is 6 April 2010.
The Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas – CIS (Spanish Centre for Sociological Research) announces the creation of the annual Prize for the Best Article Published in the Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, REIS (Spanish Sociological Research Journal www.reis.cis.es ).
- With this prize, which will be awarded 2,500 Euros, the CIS seeks to acknowledge the articles displaying the most originality, relevance and methodological quality published annually in its flagship journal, the REIS. The first Prize will be awarded in 2010 for the best article published in 2009.
- The REIS is cited at the Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index and Elsevier’s Scopus. It is also part of REDALYC, the Network of Scientific Journals of Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, which only includes scientific publications that meet demanding international publishing quality standards.
- The REIS aims to be a bilingual journal and therefore welcomes articles written in both English and Spanish. Editorial Guidelines and Instructions for Authors (both in Spanish and in English) can be found at the REIS website (www.reis.cis.es).
- The REIS is now available at Metapress, which provides access to over 37,000 scholarly publications through one of the world’s most important web-based content management systems. Among other possibilities, Metapress allows users to purchase individual articles and offers online subscription to the publications it contains. The REIS offers free access to its articles and subscription is only required for the last four issues.
A two-year post-doctoral position at SOFI, Stockholm
The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) announces a two-year post-doctoral position in the social science project ”Social Stratification Dynamics”, financed through the Swedish Initiative for Research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences (SIMSAM).
The position is for the period 1 September 2009 to 31 August 2011 or as otherwise agreed. The postdoctoral researcher is expected to bring along plans for his/her own research based on Swedish register data, to collaborate intensively with other project members, contribute to the development of register-based research within the project.
Deadline for applications is April 30, 2009. Download more information.
3-year Post-Doc in Barcelona at the Institute of Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC):
The Institute of Economic Analysis – C.S.I.C. in Barcelona (www.iae.csic.es) invites applications for a JAE post-doctoral contract. The position is for 3 years, with the possibility of an extension towards a tenure track post under positive evaluation. This is a research job without teaching.
Starting date: May to September 2009.
Salary: Approx. 29,000€ per year
Place: Barcelona, Spain
Requirements:
- Candidates should have completed a Ph.D. in Economics, Sociology, Demography or Political Science by December 2008
- Candidates should have a strong command in advanced quantitative research methods and practical experience in working with large and complex datasets.
- Candidates should have a promising research agenda and a high-publication potential in their field.
- Labour economics, labour-market sociology, social stratification and immigration research are fields of particular interest to the IAE (yet applications from other fields are also welcomed).
- Expression of interest must be received a.s.a.p. and before November 30th 2008.
Interested candidates please contact immediately Javier Polavieja (javier.polavieja@iae.csic.es).
Please send a cv and a research paper, and ask three references to send their recommendation letters.
The Low Pay, Low Skill, and Low Income (LOPSI) Cross-cutting Workshop will be held at Università Cattolica, Milan, on Friday-Saturday 26-27 June 2009. A provisional programme and call for papers from members of Equalsoc’s EDUC, EMPLOY, INCDIS and FAMNET themes will be circulated soon. For more information see www.equalsoc.org/161.
EDUC Team publishes special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, about Educational Fields of Study in European Labour Markets. Guest editor is Herman van de Werfhorst. Click here