Archive: Calls

• IPSA World Congress – Cfp for RC15 (Political and Cultural Geography)

International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress in Montreal, 2014
 
Cfp for RC15 (Political and Cultural Geography)
 
IPSA Research Committee 15 on Political and Cultural Geography was founded by Jean Gottmann and is an active front of political geography on the side of political science. I hope as many of you as possible can participate in this wonderful opportunity for productive interaction between political geographers and political scientists.  
If you have any questions about the Congress, please ask Dr. Heriberto at hcairoca@cps.ucm.es
 
SESSIONS
 
‘Performing the border’: policies, practices, people
Chairs: Prof. Heriberto Cairo and Dr. Luna Vives
 
Gateway Cities in the Global Economy (RC15/RC41)
Chair: Mr. Sören Scholvin
 
Geo-Politics of Global Governance
Chairs: Prof. Alan Henrikson (tbc) and Prof. Pere Vilanova (tbc)
 
Nature in the Anthropocene
Chair: Dr. Manuel Arias-Maldonado
 
Sense of Place, Arts and Politics: A Cultural Geography Perspective
Chairs: Dr. Takashi Yamazaki (tbc) and Dr. Maria Lois
 
More info about the sessions: http://ipsa.org/events/congress/montreal2014/panels-by-session/accepted/6346/0
 
Deadline for paper submissions is 7 Oct. 2013, so we are looking forward to hear about your proposals. As you may remember, papers can be only submitted on-line here: http://ipsa.org/events/congress/montreal2014/submit-abstractpaper-proposal

• IGU Regional Conference in Kraków, Poland,

Call for Sessions
IGU Regional Conference in Kraków, Poland,
18-22 August 2014
 
CHANGES, CHALLENGES, RESPONSIBILITY
 
The sessions to be organized during the IGU regional conference in Kraków can be categorized as follows: plenary sessions, Commission / Task Force sessions and thematic sessions.
 
The sessions at the IGU regional conference in Kraków will be organized by the IGU commissions and task forces. Additionally, the participants may propose thematic sessions to be organized during the conference.
 
The proposals for Commission / Task Force sessions must be submitted to the organizing committee no later than 15 October 2013 and the proposals for other sessions no later than 30 November 2013. Joint sessions on appropriate themes relevant to two or more IGU commissions are especially encouraged, as are those that contribute to future earth and the International year of Global Understanding. Interested participants should indicate the relevant commission/task force when submitting abstracts.
 
Thematic sessions may be organized by the conference participants to present the achievements of research groups or the results of important international and IGU research projects, or to gather experts specialized in a particular research topic in order to discuss selected research issues.
additionally, the conference participants are encouraged to organize workshops and special sessions for young scholars and university teachers, school geography teachers and students.
 
If you want to organize a session sponsored by the Commission on Political Geography pleas contact the chair of the Commission elena.dellagnese@unimib.it ‎and/or the secretary v.d.mamadouh@uva.nl
 
For more information about the IGU 2014 Regional Conference, see the conference website http://www.igu2014.org

• Annual Political Geography Preconference

The PGSG and the School of Geosciences at USF Tampa are very pleased to announce that the 27th Annual PGSG Preconference will be held at the University of South Florida’s Tampa campus on Monday, April 7, 2014. The paper sessions will take place during the day. The PGSG will host a group dinner for preconference participants during the evening.

Co-organizers: Reece Jones (reecej@hawaii.edu), Natalie Koch (nkoch@maxwell.syr.edu)

Local coordinators: Jayajit Chakraborty (jchakrab@usf.edu), Pratyusha Basu (pbasu@usf.edu)

Sponsor: School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa

More details will follow about the specific event location, but the School of Geosciences is located at 4202 East Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620.

Deadlines and registration

Please submit a paper title and a 200 word abstract, along with author contact details (name, institutional address, email address), to Reece Jones and Natalie Koch at aag.pgsg@gmail.com no later than February 1, 2014.

As with our past pre-conferences, there will be a nominal $20 registration fee for faculty only. Faculty, please bring cash if at all possible.

Hotels near the USF Tampa campus include:

·         Embassy Suites Tampa – USF/Near Busch Gardens (located inside the campus)

·         Wingate by Wyndham Hotel Tampa (free shuttle service)

·         Clarion Hotel & Conference Center Tampa (free shuttle service)

·         La Quinta Inn Busch Gardens Tampa

For more options, see: http://hotelguides.com/colleges/florida/university-south-florida.html

Campus and parking maps suitable for printing or storing on a portable device can be found at: http://usfweb2.usf.edu/FacilitiesPlan/Campus%20Planning/map.html

• Out of Place, Into Extremis

African Geographical Review 
 
Special Issue Call for Papers
 
Out of Place, Into Extremis:
Critical Geographic Perspectives on the State of Forced Migration in Africa
 
Guest Editors:
– Kevin M. DeJesus
Rhode Island College
– Daisuke Maruyama
University of Kyoto
 
This special issue of African Geographical Review seeks to provide a
comprehensive, contemporary compendium of perspectives on forced migration
across the African continent. This initiative draws from critical
geographical analytical frameworks to elucidate the experiences, dilemmas, trends and interventions in the experience of internally displaced persons, refugees and refugee returnees from every sector of the continent.
 
This special issue is conceived of as an analytical and empirical resource for which those scholars across disciplines, refugee advocates and humanitarian professionals may utilize to further apprehend the great complexities of the human geographies of survival forcibly displaced persons engender in their quest to locate spaces of refuge. Indeed, as Feminist Critical Geographer Jennifer Hyndman noted so presciently over a decade ago, the very acts of mobility/immobility, border crossings and the pursuit of humanitarian supports amidst grave circumstances, is both immensely spatialized and politicized.1 <#sdfootnote1sym> Displaced persons endure complex ecological, political, sociological and material factors
which shape the making of new geographies of everyday life amidst oftendreadful conditions.
 
This special issue intends to center geographic thought and analysis in the critical assessment of policy and practice concerning refugee and IDP policy-making, humanitarian intervention, contexts of contested borders of selves and nations, local reception and the challenges of return and reintegration. The geographies of return and so-called reintegration encompass profoundly vital questions and problematics, across scales, whereas making place upon returning to a home perhaps only known long ago, if ever, often engenders new dislocations.
 
The spectrum of the experiences of flight to return are inherently,
dynamically and vitally geographical, and therefore, it is the goal of this special issue to comprehensively consider this wide range of human experiences and processes that displaced persons often creatively contend with in the face of sharply-scaled social, economic and political barriers, borders and bureaucracies.
 
*Papers concerning the following themes, and those others related to the critical geographies of forced migration on the continent are welcome.
Particularly, scholars from the continent are encouraged to participate in this project.
 
–Scaling injustice: Critiques of country-specific refugee and IDP policy approaches/macro-level critiques of global refugee regimes, aid to refugees/IDPs in Africa;
 
–Paradoxes, Problematics and Purpose in the Production of Humanitarian Space: Critical approaches to refugee and IDP encampment as a spatial strategy of humanitarian management and the role of the nation-state;
 
–National citizens and Pan-African Approaches: Forced migration and the role of national borders in forcibly transnational lives amidst a quest for unified policy (i.e. 2009 African Union Convention on Internally Displaced Persons);
 
–Protecting Self and Place: Transit refugees, geographies of resources, and resistance to forced re-location;
 
–Making sacred space: The role of religion, the religio-political and religiously inspired actors in humanitarian aid provision and social-psychological needs in extremis;
 
–Livelihoods and Resources: Refugee/IDP encampments, ecological change and resource development/destruction: innovations in policy and practice;
 
–Spatial analysis, crisis mapping, and human rights of the displaced: Reflections on Africa;
 
–Spaces of change: Cultural anomie, coping and emergent social practices in everyday spaces of living refuge (i.e. refugee/IDP encampment and shifts in dowry practices);
 
–Re-inventing home: Spaces of the family and the experience of flight, long-term displacement and re-location;
 
–Spatializing social structure and communities dislocated: Social organization and re-organization in emergency and long-term spaces of refuge;
 
–The experience of displacement and how gender works: Women and men in the meeting of everyday material and social needs amidst shifting contexts of place;
 
–Spatial organization of social spaces of refuge: Re-conceiving of refugee encampment and the humanitarian spatial imagination;
 
Social and Dynamic Network Analysis in Place and Policy: How does social/dynamic network analysis theory and data-generation methods, such as ORA, contribute to the geographic study of forced migration and its human dilemmas?
 
–Urban and Rural Spaces of Refuge: Critical mappings of urban and rural implacement of displaced persons, macro-urban refugee policy, informal spaces of refuge and localizing community solidarity and proximity, urban and rural livelihood resources.
 
Key Project Details:
 
Please send your abstract of 250 words, by October 30, 2013, with the subject line: “AGR Special Issue” to: kevinm.dejesus@gmail.com
 
Selected manuscripts are due by:     January 3, 2014

 
For authors guidelines, please see:
 
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rafg20&page=instructions#.Ufny6m3gWdw
 
1 <#sdfootnote1anc>Hyndman, J. (2000). *Managing Displacement: Refugees
and the Politics of Humanitarianism.* Minneapolis, MN: University of
Minnesota Press.

• Annual Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies

Please find the call for papers for the Annual Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) in English and in Spanish in the attachment.
 
Deadline for abstract 1 December 2013
 
Info/Submission to Program Chair: Martin van der Velde (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) at M.vanderVelde@ru.nl
 
eng
 
esp

• Islands and borders in the new European migratory system

Call for papers to be submitted to L’Espace Politique, online Political Geography and Geopolitics Journal, for publication in its 2014/2 issue (n°24).

• African Geographical Review

African Geographical Review

 
                              Special Issue Call for Papers

   Out of Place, Into Extremis:

Critical Geographic Perspectives on the State of Forced Migration in Africa

Guest Editors:

Kevin M. DeJesus

Rhode Island College

Daisuke Maruyama

Kyoto University

This special issue of African Geographical Review seeks to provide a comprehensive, contemporary compendium of perspectives on forced migration across the African continent. This initiative draws from critical geographical analytical frameworks to elucidate the experiences, dilemmas, trends and interventions in the experience of internally displaced persons, refugees and refugee returnees from every sector of the continent.

This special issue is conceived of as an analytical and empirical resource for which those scholars across disciplines, refugee advocates and humanitarian professionals may utilize to further apprehend the great complexities of the human geographies of survival forcibly displaced persons engender in their quest to locate spaces of refuge. Indeed, as Feminist Critical Geographer Jennifer Hyndman noted so presciently over a decade ago, the very acts of mobility/immobility, border crossings and the pursuit of humanitarian supports amidst grave circumstances, is both immensely spatialized and politicized.¹ Displaced persons endure complex ecological, political, sociological and material factors which shape the making of new geographies of everyday life amidst often dreadful conditions.

This special issue intends to center geographic thought and analysis in the critical assessment of policy and practice concerning refugee and IDP policy-making, humanitarian intervention, contexts of contested borders of selves and nations, local reception and the challenges of return and reintegration. The geographies of return and so-called reintegration encompass profoundly vital questions and problematics, across scales, whereas making place upon returning to a home perhaps only known long ago, if ever, often engenders new dislocations.

The spectrum of the experiences of flight to return are inherently, dynamically and vitally geographical, and therefore, it is the goal of this special issue to comprehensively consider this wide range of human experiences and processes that displaced persons often creatively contend with in the face of sharply-scaled social, economic and political barriers, borders and bureaucracies.

Papers concerning the following themes, and those others related to the critical geographies of forced migration on the continent are welcome. Particularly, scholars from the continent are encouraged to participate in this project.

–Scaling injustice: Critiques of country-specific refugee and IDP policy approaches/macro-level critiques of global refugee regimes, aid to refugees/IDPs in Africa;

–Paradoxes, Problematics and Purpose in the Production of Humanitarian Space: Critical approaches to refugee and IDP encampment as a spatial strategy of humanitarian management and the role of the nation-state;

–National citizens and Pan-African Approaches: Forced migration and the role of national borders in forcibly transnational lives amidst a quest for unified policy (i.e. 2009 African Union Convention on Internally Displaced Persons);

–Protecting Self and Place: Transit refugees, geographies of resources, and resistance to forced re-location;

–Making sacred space: The role of religion, the religio-political and religiously inspired actors in humanitarian aid provision and social-psychological needs in extremis;

Livelihoods and Resources: Refugee/IDP encampments, ecological change and resource development/destruction: innovations in policy and practice;

–Spatial analysis, crisis mapping, and human rights of the displaced: Reflections on Africa;

–Spaces of change: Cultural anomie, coping and emergent social practices in everyday spaces of living refuge (i.e. refugee/IDP encampment and shifts in dowry practices);

–Re-inventing home: Spaces of the family and the experience of flight, long-term displacement and re-location;

–Spatializing social structure and communities dislocated: Social organization and re-organization in emergency and long-term spaces of refuge;

-The experience of displacement and how gender works: Women and men in the meeting of everyday material and social needs amidst shifting contexts of place;

–Spatial organization of social spaces of refuge: Re-conceiving of refugee encampment and the humanitarian spatial imagination;

Social and Dynamic Network Analysis in Place and Policy: How does social/dynamic network analysis theory and data-generation methods, such as ORA, contribute to the geographic study of forced migration and its human dilemmas? 

–Urban and Rural Spaces of Refuge: Critical mappings of urban and rural implacement of displaced persons, macro-urban refugee policy, informal spaces of refuge and localizing community solidarity and proximity, urban and rural livelihood resources.

                                       Key Project Details:

Please send your abstract of 250 words, by October 30, 2013, with the subject line: “AGR Special Issue” to: kevinm.dejesus@gmail.com

      Selected manuscripts are due by:  January 3, 2014

For authors guidelines, please see:

http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rafg20&page=instructions#.Ufny6m3gWdw

• The European Union in International Affairs IV

CALL FOR PAPERS:  Deadline 30 September 2013

‘The European Union in International Affairs IV’

Brussels, 22-24 May 2014

The Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (IES-VUB), the Institut d’Études Européennes at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB), the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations invite papers for the fourth ‘European Union in International Affairs’ (EUIA) Conference.

The EUIA Conference provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussion and exchange of ideas amongst scholars engaged in understanding the role of the EU in the world. This broad theme encompasses the dynamic interplay between the EU, its member states and external partners. Debates may focus on topical issues such as the European elections and the quest for democratic accountability, the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, European responses to the instability in the wider neighbourhood, the external implications of the Eurozone crisis, and the evolution of the post-Lisbon European foreign policy system. As such, the EUIA Conference integrates ‘inside out, outside in’ perspectives covering different policy fields.

The EUIA Conference is open to all relevant disciplines and sub-disciplines. Through keynote addresses and policy link panels it fosters exchange between the scientific and the policy communities. Limited solidarity grants are available to cover part of the cost of participation of junior researchers from disadvantaged countries.

Please submit your paper abstract (300 words maximum) according to instructions on the conference website: www.ies.be/conference/euia2014

Deadline for paper proposals: 30 September 2013 Notification of acceptance: 17 January 2014 Submission of full papers: 9 May 2014

We look forward to welcoming you to the fourth EUIA Conference!

On behalf of the EUIA Conference organisers: IES-VUB, IEE-ULB, UNU-CRIS and Egmont

The EU in International Affairs Conference Secretariat Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels (mail address)

T: +32-2-6148001

F: +32-2-6148010

E: euia2014@ies.be

W: www.ies.be/conference/euia2014

• 2014 UAA CONFERENCE: Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION—2014 UAA CONFERENCE

Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization

Urban Affairs Association Conference

San Antonio, TX

March 19‐22, 2014

Abstract/Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2013

Urban areas have grown at an unprecedented rate in the last decade. More of the world’s population now lives in cities than in any other context. International trade, capital investment and divestment, migration, and porous economic, social and political boundaries fuel this global urbanization. Enormous governance challenges result for megacities and fast‐growing urban centers due to in‐migration and other trends, particularly in the global south. Ethnic, racial and economic disparities across the globe create new tensions and vehicles for exclusion, while also creating interesting possibilities for cooperation and collaboration. Economic, political, and environmental crises further burden governance and demand innovative solutions to problems unique to global urbanization. All of this raises old and new civic and policy questions about boundaries and borders of global urbanization. Consequently, the 2014 conference theme is “Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization.” The conference site, San Antonio, is a global city with a population of approximately 1.3 million, in a significant border region with boundaries that defy simple conceptualizations. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, and one of its most ethnically diverse, with almost 70 percent of its native and immigrant residents being of Hispanic descent. It provides a particularly apt setting to explore borders and boundaries and how they shape urban affairs in the 21st Century. To broaden the conference discourse on the theme of global urbanization, UAA will sponsor a special track on Urban Issues in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. We welcome and will actively reach out to our research colleagues across these regions.

Topical Categories

In keeping with the tradition of UAA Annual Meetings, we encourage proposals that focus on an array of research topics including:

Arts, Culture, Media

Disaster Planning for Urban Areas, Disaster Management, Emergency Preparedness, Cities & Security

Economic Development, Redevelopment, Tourism, Urban Economics, Urban Finance

Education in Urban Contexts, Urban Schools, Higher Education Institutions and Urban Communities

Environmental Issues and Cities, Sustainability and Cities, Urban Health, Technology and Society

Globalization and Urban Impacts, International Urban Issues

Governance in Cities /Urban Regions, Intergovernmental Relations, Regionalism, Urban Management

Historic Preservation, Space and Place

Historical Perspectives on Cities and Urban Regions

Housing, Neighborhoods, Community Development

Human/Social Services for Urban Populations, Nonprofit Sector in Urban Contexts

Immigration Dynamics and Impacts on Urban Areas, Population and Demographic Trends

Infrastructure, Capital Projects, Networks, Transport, Urban Services

Labor, Employment, Wages, Training

Land Use, Growth Management, Urban Development, Urban Planning

Poverty, Welfare, Income Inequality

Professional Development, The Field of Urban Affairs

Public Safety in Urban Areas, Criminal Justice, Household Violence

Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Identity, Diversity

Social Capital & Urban Communities, Democracy & Civil Society in Urban Contexts, Religion & the City

Urban Design, Urban Architecture

Urban Indicators, Data/Methods, Satisfaction/Quality of Life Surveys

Urban Politics, Elections, Citizen Participation

Urban Theory, Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in Urban Affairs

Proposal Submission Formats and Policies

A proposal can be submitted through the UAA website (starting June 1, 2013) for a:

Research paper presentation‐‐(proposal requires an abstract) OR

Pre‐organized panel‐‐(proposal requires a group of 4‐5 paper abstracts with moderator) OR

Pre‐organized colloquy session‐‐ (proposal requires theme statement & names of 4‐5 formal discussants) OR

Breakfast roundtable‐‐(proposal requires theme statement & names of 1‐2 conveners) OR

Poster‐‐(proposal requires an abstract)

Participation Policy ‐‐‐One Session Rule

Individuals are limited to participating (as a presenter or moderator) in one (1) conference session. A conference session is defined as: a panel, a colloquy, a poster display, or a breakfast roundtable. There is no limit to the number of papers/posters for which you are a co‐author. But, you cannot be scheduled to participate in more than one session. Do not agree to participate in more than one session. Policy exception: persons who are asked to play a service role (e.g., plenary speaker, professional development session speaker) for UAA can participate in one additional session.

Late Proposals

After October 1, 2013, UAA will only accept proposals for the poster option.

Proposal Review Decision Date Acceptance or rejection notices will be sent by November 18, 2013.

Conference Hotel and Participant Registration Rates

All conference activities (except where noted) will take place at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel located along the famous San Antonio River promenade. Very competitive room rates have been secured for conference

attendees: $179 (single/double) plus applicable state and local taxes. This rate applies 3 days before/after the event if rooms are available. Cut‐off date for conference rate room reservations is February 20, 2014. Early reservations are strongly advised. The UAA website will provide a direct web link for hotel reservations.

ALL PARTICIPANTS (faculty, students, practitioners) must pay the designated fees for their registration category. Registration rates will be posted on the UAA website by July 1, 2013.

Conference Planning

Local Host: University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)

Committee members: Heywood Sanders (Committee Chair), Chris Reddick, (Chair‐UTSA Public Administration); Francine Romero (Assoc. Dean‐UTSA College of Public Policy), Ivy Taylor, Public Administration.

Program Committee:

Chair, Gordana Rabrenovic (Northeastern University), Roland Anglin (Rutgers University), Robert Chaskin (University of Chicago), Cecilia Giusti (Texas A&M University), Deidre Oakley ( Georgia State University)

Questions?

Visit the UAA website: www.urbanaffairsassociation.org (info on special tracks, proposal submissions,registration, hotel reservations, etc.), contact us at conf@uaamail.org or 1‐414‐229‐3025.

• Funded PhD positions at University of Oulu

We are particularly interested in receiving applications from students whose interests align with our new Centre of Excellence, focused on territorial and relational border practices. More information: http://www.oulu.fi/eudaimonia/node/19924

For those of you unfamiliar with the Finnish system, these PhD funding lines pay a living wage (gasp!) and support full-time devotion to PhD research. Guest lecturing and/or co-teaching can be arranged, but is not the basis of PhD funding. Health, maternity, holiday, and childcare benefits are all excellent.
 
The applications require a “letter of support” from a future supervisor, so if you or someone you know is interested, please do not hesitate to contact Professor Sami Moisio (sami.moisio@oulu.fi).
 
And for any questions about living in Oulu, working at the university, our 500km of bike paths and ski trails, and/or Everyman’s (sic) Right to berry and mushroom picking in the forest, please feel free to contact me, as well.
 
Lauren Martin, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher // Tutkijatohtori
University of Oulu // Oulun Yliopisto
 
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Call for applicants for ten (10) four-year doctoral student positions and five (5) two-year positions in the fields of humanities, education, business, and human geography
 
The Eudaimonia Research Center is dedicated to facilitate high-quality research and professional networking in human sciences. Its main goal is to enhance support for the research and educational activities of scholars in human sciences. It executes and enhances multicultural research at the University of Oulu in national and international contexts. Eudaimonia’s multidisciplinary research focus covers different interrelated themes for understanding and explaining society, culture and human behaviour. Further information about the research communities in human sciences at the University of Oulu can be found on the Eudaimonia Research Center web pages. Stimulated by the needs in human sciences, the ambition of the Human Sciences Doctoral Programme (EUDA-DP) is to foster a multidisciplinary environment for research and education. EUDA-DP offers a high-quality research training environment to educate researchers aiming for excellent positions in academia, industry and society. For doctoral students accepted into EUDA-DP, we offer:
-international research excellence in humanities, education, business, and human geography;
-a supervision focused on mentoring, the assessment of learning and support;
-preference in student selection for special courses given by internationally recognized professors and for tutorials and workshops -organized on the research areas of EUDA-DP;
-multi-/interdisciplinary research options;
-an active research community enhancing a strong research culture;
-exposure to industry and other relevant employment sectors;
-possibilities for international networking;
-transferable skills training.
The EUDA-DP invites applications for 10 four-year (2014 – 2017) and 5 two-year (2014 – 2015) doctoral student positions. Applicants should have a strong background and interest in human sciences, and be motivated to conduct research in multidisciplinary environment.
 
Successful applicants for the EUDA-DP doctoral student positions are expected to start their doctoral training on 1st January, 2014, work full-time on their doctoral training, conduct research leading to a doctoral thesis related to the themes of the research groups in human sciences, and complete the doctoral degree at the University of Oulu within 4 years.
 
The work contract of new students selected for one of the doctoral student positions advertised in this call may include a four-month trial period at the beginning of their employment. The evaluation of the student’s aptitude and ability to continue the doctoral training within the EUDA-DP after the trial period will be carried out by the EUDA-DP Management Group.
 
Applications for the EUDA-DP doctoral student positions should include a scientifically significant research proposal which thematically fits the scope of the scientific fields represented by EUDA-DP, demonstrate the applicant’s qualifications and capabilities to develop into an independent researcher, and propose a principal supervisor, who is a professor, or docent-level researcher of high scientific standing at the University of Oulu and whose research represents the scientific fields of the Eudaimonia Research Center.
 
In addition to the required documents defined in the General Call Text and Application Form, all applications should therefore include:
1) A CV, including a complete list of publications and previous funding of the research
2) A “letter of commitment” from the supervisor (see instructions)
3) A Research plan approved by the supervisor, or an academic portfolio containing the report of qualifications relevant to the assessment of research merits and their relevance to the project (3 pages maximum, see instructions)
4) A report of practical teaching experience and qualifications relevant to the assessment of teaching skills
5) If relevant, the applicant may also include a statement of interest for an adjunct position (positions with external funding), if he/she is not selected for one of the funded positions advertised in this call. These students are full members of the doctoral programme, but their monthly income is paid by another source (e.g. research group, personal grant etc.). Currently the research groups of EUDA-DP provide a limited number of adjunct positions.
 
All applications will be evaluated and ranked by the Eudaimonia Management Group. Based on the ranking of the applications, potential candidates may be invited for an interview. Based on the ranking, the Eudaimonia Management Group will make the final selection of candidates to be awarded the EUDA-DP doctoral student positions. All applicants will be informed of the selection by e-mail.
 
For further information related to the EUDA-DP doctoral student positions, please contact:
DP director Matti Lehtihalmes,
E-mail: matti.lehtihalmes@oulu.fi
Phone: +358 8 0294483390 ,