Vacancies, International meetings, scholarships and funding
Last Call for Applications:
Open Places and Scholarships in the PhD Programme of the School of Politics and International Relations, UCD (deadline: July 1st 2011)
The UCD School of Politics and International Relations invites applications to its PhD programme (details below). We also offer a limited number of scholarships of one year in duration. The scholarship will cover fees up to a maximum of €5,200. In addition, a €5,000 Euro stipend will also be paid over the course of the year in return for three hours per week of tutoring in each semester on our undergraduate programme.
Applications for the PhD programme as well as for the scholarship should be submitted electronically to our PhD administrator danny.moran@ucd.ie no later than July 1st 2011 (further information below).
Dr Diana Panke
(Postgraduate Director)
Lecturer in Political Science
School of Politics and International Relations
University College Dublin
Dublin 4, Ireland
Phone: 00353 (0)1 716 8137
Email: diana.panke@ucd.ie
Web: http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/politicsintrelations/drdianapanke/
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Postdoctoral position, Department of Political Science and Public Management Job description (ID 341/556-115766): At the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark in Odense a two-year position as PostDoc is available as of September 1, 2011 or soon thereafter. The post.doc. position is connected to the research programme “Beyond Class Politics” focusing especially on contemporary processes of welfare state reform in advanced western democracies. The research programme begins June 1, 2011 and will run for three years. The main purpose is to analyze political processes of welfare state change on a comparative basis. The programme integrates three general perspectives as it analyzes how a) changes within the organization of political parties, b) altered relationships between interest groups and political authorities, and c) the mediatization of politics have changed the ways governments pursue political reforms during the post-war period. Thus, the programme’s overall ambition is to contribute theoretically and empirically to the existing research on comparative welfare state reform. The post.doc. is expected to contribute to the department’s research in comparative politics in general and research on welfare state reform in particular. Specifically, we expect the post.doc. to contribute significantly to the cross-country dimension of the “Beyond Class Politics” project – and to have this work published in high-impact peer-reviewed political science journals. We are especially interested in candidates with interest in comparative politics, comparative public policy and research methodology. To qualify for the position, applicants must have a PhD degree in Political Science. Applicants are also expected to have a promising academic profile and the ability to contribute not only to the research environment at the department but also the different educational programmes, notably at the BA and MA in political science. The applicant is also expected to take part in the social life and events at the department in order to contribute to a positive and open working environment. The successful applicant will join a vibrant research environment and can expect excellent research conditions with respect to individual professional freedom in and responsibility for the research as well as to the research support functions. The applicant will also have ample opportunity to teach university students at various levels. In sum, we offer the successful applicant a strong platform for the development of a research career. For additional information about the position, please contact Associate Professor Michael Baggesen Klitgaard, phone +45 6550 2089 (office) +45 4022 7649 (cell), e-mail mbk@sam.sdu.dk . Information about the department, its research, and teaching profile can be obtained at www.sam.sdu.dk/politics . More details about the position: http://www.jobs.sdu.dk/vis_stilling.php?id=6589&lang=eng . |
16 May 2011 - Graduate Research Symposium 2011
UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business, Blackrock Campus, 16 May 2011 from 8:45am - 5pm.
Jointly organised by the UCD College of Human Sciences Graduate School and the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business
Graduate Research Symposium 2011 Programme (pdf.)
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Call for Papers
International Conference
Education and the Global Fertility Transition
Vienna, 30 November - 1 December 2011
This scientific meeting wants to assess the big picture of the global fertility transition by identifying its key drivers. It will pay special attention to the role of human capital, and in particular the basic education of women. The effects of education will be compared to other possible systematic drivers such as declining infant mortality, increasing income/wealth or changing social norms. Papers should address the whole range of fertility transitions from the onset of family limitation in historical populations to the current fertility declines in developing countries and possible future fertility patterns in post-transition societies. Both empirical and more theoretical papers are welcome.
More specifically, papers could address some of the following topics:
- How education relates to sexual behaviour, contraceptive use and demographic trends
- Opportunity costs, changing norms and institutions, education and ‘social success’ versus having (many) children
- The effects of literacy, skills and female empowerment on the relationship between partners
- Education, culture, religion and fertility
- Differential access to family planning and use of family planning by level of education
- Identifying causal relations between education and fertility
- Links between the length of female education, skill levels, labour markets and childbearing
- Demographic simulations and counterfactual projections of the effects of different education pathways
The conference will be coordinated by Wolfgang Lutz and Vegard Skirbekk. It is planned to publish the best conference contributions (after scientific review) in the thematic issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2012. The Yearbook will be widely circulated in hard copy and is freely available on the web (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/yearbook). This rather young journal already has a high impact factor.
Please send your expression of interest, abstract and/or submission to conference.vid@oeaw.ac.at by 1 June 2011.
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"Africa in the 21st Century: The challenges of Globalization, Environmental Degradation and Global Terrorism"
Africa Berlin International Conference
Mediateam IT Educational Center , Berlin (Germany)
22-26 August 2011
The crucial issues the world is faced with today are: globalization, environmental degradation and global terrorism. Africa is at the receiving end of these issues.
Globalization represents a process of pervasive force of connectivity and interdependence among countries in the realm of economics, technology, politics, culture, and language to mention a few. Globalization has replaced the prior minimalist-interactionist relationship between countries, with an ever-increasing interaction between countries known as the developed world and developing world. Given the inequity between the two worlds, globalization is favorable to the developed world against the developing world. Although globalization has many undeniable advantages, its inherent negative consequences are glaring as poor countries and minority groups, i.e., Africa is being submerged.
The issues most associated with environmental degradation are: the destruction of the bio-diversity, the loss of habitats, and the depletion of resources such as air, soil and water. Caused mainly by pollution and overuse of resources, its main consequence is the constraint on means of livelihood. However, some nations bear the brunt more than others. The developed world, which utilizes larger share of the resources of the world and therefore pollutes more, is able to mitigate the impact of environmental degradation it bears, but the developing world known to pollute less because it uses less of the resources of the world, bears the full brunt of the impact of degradation because it lacks the capacity to mitigate it. Africa belongs to this category. Yet, the developing world, including Africa, must adhere to the regulations set by the developed world called Cartagena Protocol.
Terrorism poses a serious danger to the world. The 9/11 attack on US and the subsequent attacks in Europe and Asia, cast a shadow of fear and insecurity across the globe. But, while terrorists are getting sophisticated by the day in the use of advances of science and technology, and are perhaps striving to acquire weapons of mass destruction to inflict maximum casualty: nations are vigilant and resolved and ready to defeat them - what with crack counter terrorism forces developed and equipped to ensure this. Sadly, however, Africa which is an open society i.e., insecure, shows no evidence of urgency to fight terrorism. African nations are not just conduits or gateway routes for illegal international drug trade and arms deal; they remain operational free zone for terrorist plots and activities. The expedient question that arises in view of this is: Wither Africa in the 21st century?
The following sub themes are among the issues to be examined:
The Global world:
Conceptual and methodological Issues Africa in the face of globalization: problems and prospects Globalization: Why Developing countries are discontented Losers and gainers of globalization
Environmental Degradation:
Environmental ethics and impact assessment of environmental degradation Conceptual and methodological issues of environmental discourse The idea of corporate social responsibility and the green house emission Global energy policy The impact of environmental degradation on Africa
Global Terrorism:
What is terrorism? Global Terrorist Network, who initiates it, what sustains it? Religion and Global Terrorism: Any link? Contending with Global Terrorism What approach should African nations adopt in the global fight against terrorism?
To examine these issues, Africa Berlin International Conference (ABIC), invites papers for a conference on August 22nd 26th, 2011. Papers are welcome from all scholars and all subjects, young scholars, post-docs and students from all disciplines are also invited to participate.
Please send your application and abstract electronically to:
africaberlin-conference@mediateamit.com.
Your abstract which must be a maximum of 250 words, should give detailed information about the objectives, method, results or findings (or expected results) and main conclusions drawn from the research questions. The abstract must also contain the following information: research title, the author's name, contact address, telephone number and email address, institutional affiliation and about 5 key words.
Deadline for submission of abstract: February 29th, 2011.
Extended deadline: March 15th, 2011.
Full-length papers must be submitted to same address by: June 30th,
2011. Extended deadline: July 15th, 2011.
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and published in a reader.
Contact: Mrs Bianca Goelz-Ngwu
Mediateam IT Educational Center
Lahnstr. 23
12055 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49-30-68083073
Fax: +49-30-68224864
Email: bngwu@mediateamit.com
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