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Job Maastricht University - Five PhD positions at the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences

The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University opens five fully funded PhD positions in the field of arts and social sciences. The programme is characterized by its interdisciplinary approach and its international character, focused on three topics: 1. European Administrative Governance; 2. Science, Technology and Society, including Globalization and Development; 3. Cultural Memory and Diversity.

Job description

As a PhD candidate you will participate in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences.

The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences has an intake of about 10 PhD students each year. Students receive a coherent programme of introductory courses and intensive supervision, complemented by additional courses organized by a national graduate school. The Programme is characterized by its basic choice for interdisciplinarity and the emphasis on highly topical issues in science and society. If you are curious, talented and if you have the ambition to become an excellent researcher, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Requirements

The key to success for any PhD candidate is an academic attitude and the ambition to become an excellent researcher. In addition, you should have the relevant educational background and skills required by a researcher in the specific field you have chosen. You have completed a research master (MPhil) or an equivalent degree. In some cases, applicants may be required to acquire additional qualifications, for example by entering the second year of our research master. Students with a regular master will only be accepted in exceptional cases.

Conditions of employment

The Dutch PhD-system differs from systems in other countries. Most PhD candidates in the Netherlands are employed by the universities to do research and conclude this with a PhD thesis. The Graduate School offers two options:

1. a four-year contract with teaching;

2. a three-year contract without teaching.

Part-time variant are also possible.

A gross salary of between € 2,042.00 per month in the first year and € 2,612.00 in the fourth year will be offered (based on a full-time appointment).

Contract type

Temporary

Organisation

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 14,000 students and 3,500 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Department

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) has 200 employees and 1,600 students. All programmes are (also) offered in English. Its students come from all over the world. FASoS offers two 3-year bachelors programmes: Arts and Culture, and European Studies, six different 1-year masters courses and two 2-year research masters programmes.

Additional information

Please send us your (brief) ideas for a PhD project together with a CV. Your ideas should be in line with the research themes and research suggestions which can be found on the website of the Graduate School (www.fdcw.org/phdprogram). The deadline for submitting your application is Friday 5 March 2010. Please submit electronically through: phd@maastrichtuniversity.nl. In a next step, you may receive an invitation to elaborate a detailed research proposal. Full applications are due by Friday 7 May 2010. Contracts usually start on 1 September.

Further information on the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences is also available on our website: www.fdcw.org/phdprogram. More information on the stimulating and international environment of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences can be found at http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/web/Faculties/FASoS.htm.

For further questions, you may also contact: drs. P. van Eijs, programme officer, at phd@maastrichtuniversity.nl ; phone: 0031 – 43 – 3882539.

 

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