Dear All,
Please find below a call for applicants for three research positions to study social security in rural Hungary, Romania and Serbia.
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Cartwright
The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is advertising
¢ 3 PhD Grants
in the project ’Local State and Social Security in Rural Hungary, Romania and Serbia ’, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, for a 3-year period.
The project is based on the observation that the tremendous political change in former socialist countries has produced a high diversity in local state formations and social security arrangements. By adopting an anthropological definition of social security, the project seeks to overcome simple dichotomies between formal state and informal help and between state and non-state actors. Instead we focus on the inter-relatedness and embeddedness of state actors in local social security arrangements. The project concentrates on two major fields of state action as analytic domains: access to productive resources in agriculture/
forestry and access to social assistance.
PhD students will undertake a case study in light of the project¹s theme. They will be expected to work in collaboration with the postdoctoral cooperation partners. They will conduct 12 months of fieldwork, contribute data to the project¹s collection of comparative material and engage in an intensive exchange with the other project participants.
The PhD Grants are for two years (with the possibility of two six-month extensions).
Individuals with disabilities will be given priority, assuming equal qualifications.
Requirements:
¢ Applicants should have completed a university degree in Social Anthropology or a related discipline at a German university or an equivalent university abroad
¢ Experience with qualitative research, ability to work in a team
¢ Fluency in the language of the research country and communication skills with good written and spoken English are required
Applications should include
¢ a cover letter,
¢ a full CV
¢ a project resume (2-3 pages) that takes into consideration the project's overall theme
¢ photocopies of university degrees
¢ names of 2-3 referees, whom we may contact
There is no application form to be filled out. Applications may be submitted by email.
Final selection will be made following interviews at a date yet to be arranged. Please send applications to the following address by 20th of September, 2008:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Personnel Administration
P. O. Box 11 03 51
06017 Halle/Saale
Germany
or email to: wagenbrett@eth. mpg.de
For further information about the Institute please visit: http://www.eth. mpg.de
Informal enquiries concerning the project may be directed to Dr Tatjana Thelen (thelen@eth.mpg. de).
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