Postdoctoral Position Scholarship for Hispanic in Social Science

The Scholarship for Hispanic role of this social science post doctoral researcher is to take part in a collaborative empirical investigation of the project in action and the issues at stake, such as changes in trust and the accountabilities in the electoral processes, the genealogy of democracy and technology and, the organizational changes related to digitization in municipalities. The Scholarship for Hispanic aim is to analyze and assess social, political and cultural consequences of the technology and to make qualified inputs to the design process and assessment of the technology.

Scholarship for Hispanic Specifically, the post doctoral researcher will be expected to do ethnographic fieldwork in one of the Danish Municipalities with special focus on the election processes, including the current ritual and organization of the election and the wider organizational, cultural and democratic context in which the electoral process is embedded.

Postdoctoral Scholarship for Hispanic candidates should have a Ph.D. in Social Science, an established research record, and experience with doing qualitative research in one or more of the following fields:

Science and technology studies (STS)
democracy and science
electronic voting systems (of primary importance)
democratic governance
IT-governance
genealogy of democracy and technology
political technologies
public understanding of science
trust in information

General information

The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) is a teaching and research-based tertiary institution concerned with information technology (IT) and the opportunities it offers. The IT University has more than 50 faculty members. Research and teaching in information technology span all academic activities which involve computers including computer science, information and media sciences, humanities and social sciences, business impact and the commercialisation of IT.
Questions about the positions can be directed to Assistant Professor Nina Boulus, IT University of Copenhagen, nbou@itu.dk +45 7218 5228, Assistant Professor Christopher Gad, IT University of Copenhagen, chga@itu.dk +45 7218 5173, or Associate Professor Randi Markussen, IT University of Copenhagen, rmar@itu.dk +45 7218 5160.
Salary

Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).
Application

The application must be in English and must include:

A Scholarship for Hispanic motivated application, including a cogent argument for how qualifi ed you are for the position and brief statements of research and teaching plans.
A full CV, including name, address, phone number, e-mail, previous and present employment and academic background.
Documentation of academic degrees (copy of degree certificates etc.).
Copies of max 5 diff erent publications you wish the evaluation committee to consider.
A numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications should be marked with an asterisk (*).
Documentation of pedagogical experience and teaching record within one or more of the teaching areas listed for the position.

The Scholarship for Hispanic applicant will be assessed according to the Appointment Order from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of 25 April 2008.
Please note that all application material will be destroyed after the assessment.
Application procedure

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Application deadline: 15 May, 2011.

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International PhD Scholarship for Hispanic

The Scholarship for Hispanic is valid for a maximum of 3 years for a doctorate (of MPhil) [subject to the satisfactory progress] and is open to international applicants only. UK / EU applicants are not eligible. The grant will be £ 15.000 to provide for the cost of international tuition over 3 years.
With Chinese leaders call for "innovation in international competitiveness and influence of Chinese culture to improve, and it is feared, the United States, a war lost global information society, a competition between China and the West's economic and political authority is becoming apparent and are expressed in a contest for cultural representation.
This Scholarship for Hispanic research initiative aims in the context of discussions on Western images of China and China's efforts to misunderstandings with the negative impact of the rise, the analysis of these new cultural challenges of working in the context of the changing dynamics of world power.Scholarship for Hispanic From the perspective of Western and Chinese cultural performances from China, as he had left after 1949 In order to rise as an international power in the world today, the research focus in particular on such representations in Chinese film and TV Out West / since the 1990s. Scholarship for Hispanic Studies on the particular case, the work continuity / discontinuity in reaffirming orientalist and Chinese responses to explore.

Application deadline: 13 May 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Scholarship for Hispanic University of Leeds

The Department of Italian invites applications for three Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Scholarship for Hispanic within a project funded by the European Research Council.
The project, whose Principal Investigator is Professor Brian Richardson, will investigate how oral culture in early modern Italy related to written culture and how far it was independent of writing. It Scholarship for Hispanic will focus on four areas: social performance, politics, religion, and linguistic usage. Research will encompass spaces such as courts, council chambers, churches, academies, towns, the countryside, and households; men and women of all social classes; and contexts including ceremonial and ritual events, oratory, public and private performance, and scripted and improvised entertainments. It will also study the cultural functions of the exceptionally wide spectrum of languages used throughout the peninsula.
You will carry out research on one of the following areas, which will be allocated by the Principal Investigator after consultation:

The Scholarship for Hispanic performance of literary texts in non-elite culture, by professional performers and others
The preaching of orthodox and reformed religious thought
The functions and status of the varieties of language used in Italian oral culture

You will be expected to have obtained or expect to shortly obtain a PhD with specialisation in an aspect of Italian Studies, and have experience of studying Renaissance/early modern Italian culture and/or history.
Information about the Department of Italian can be found at www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/..
Applicants are asked in addition to their standard application to submit a CV.
University Grade 7 (£29,972 – £35,788 p.a) It is likely that an appointment will be made no higher than £31,798 p.a. since there are funding limitations which dictate the level at which the appointment can start.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Brian Richardson, tel +44 (0)113 343 3632, email b.f.richardson@leeds.ac.uk

Deadline: 03-05-2011

PhD Scholarships for Hispanic in Economics,Italy

The Scholarships for Hispanic program, taught entirely in English, provides an excellent training for study and research in the various fields of economics. It has a long and consolidated tradition of post-graduate teaching and research in both theoretical and applied economics. Since its inception, more than one hundred students have successfully completed the PhD Scholarships for Hispanic program, and many of them are working in leading academic and non-academic, prestigious institutions like the Federal Reserve, the European Commission, the United Nations, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Italy.

The first year of the PhD Scholarships for Hispanic program is devoted mainly to advanced course work in Mathematics for economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics and a considerable number of frontier state-of-the-art research topics. Full time research is pursued over the following two (or exceptionally three) years, during which each student must write his or her thesis. Students Scholarships for Hispanic are encouraged and financially supported to carry out part of their studies at leading foreign universities in order to allow them to exchange and compare ideas on a broader scale.

Application

To apply Scholarships for Hispanic, please read the Call for Pre-Applications downloadable at www.unicatt.it/phdeconomics where the procedure is described. It consists of two stages, a pre-application and an official application. The pre-application is recommended but not necessary while the official application is.

To participate in the pre-application stage, your application must be received by May 15th. The official application will take place in the second half of July or the first half of August. (The precise date will be available on the Program’s website later.)

For questions please contact Professor Gerd Weinrich, Director of the PhD Program in Economics, at gerd.weinrich[ at ]unicatt.it (http://docenti.unicatt.it/ita/Gerd_Weinrich).