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PhD Position in Sociology Uppsala University, the Department of Sociology

Uppsala University welcomes applications for a doctoral student position in sociology with a specialization in social gerontology, i.e. social scientific studies focusing on older people, aging and/ eldercare. The Department seeks to appoint one candidate with excellent academic merits who can demonstrate their potential for research in this specific area…

Call for 2 postdoctoral fellow positions at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Germany

The DFG-funded Research Training Group ‘Doing Transitions’ at Goethe University Frankfurt and Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen is inviting applications for 2 postdoctoral fellows (f/m/d) (Full-time position at the level of E13 on the German Public Service pay scale) for fixed four-year term beginning October 1, 2021. The Research Training Group ‘Doing Transitions’ investigates how transitions are constituted across the…

Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunities Society and Health Research Center at Universidad Mayor

Deadline - September 24, 2020POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER OPPORTUNITIES SOCIETY AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER AT UNIVERSIDAD MAYORPostdoc_Society_and_Health_Research_Center_UM_2020 The Society and Health Research Center at Universidad Mayor (http://ciss.umayor.cl/en/) is seeking to sponsor postdoctoral researchers funded through FONDECYT. The overarching mission of the Society and Health Research Center is to advance well-being at the individual, social, and institutional…

Announcement of 12 PhD positions in the research training group “Doing Transitions”

Deadline - September 13, 2019Goethe University Frankfurt and Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen are inviting applications for  12 doctoral student positions  (TV-L E13, 65% part-time)  in the DFG Research Training Group „Doing Transitions“ starting on 1st of January 2020 for a fixed term of 3 years, located in Frankfurt and in Tübingen respectively.  The Research Training Group„Doing Transitions“ investigates…

GENDER-Net Plus Funded PhD Fellowship in Gender and Ageing Intersections in Exclusion from Social Relations across the Life Course

Deadline - June 21, 2019 / 05:00 PMApplications for PhD Doctoral Position Sought: Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time, four-year PhD research fellowship in the area of ageing and gender intersection in exclusion from social relations, to be based at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) in the National University of Ireland…

Postdoctoral Researcher (Qualitative) at NUI Galway

Deadline - June 06, 2019 / 05:00 PMApplications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time 18-month fixed term position as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This is a key post in a qualitative research programme that adopts a life-course approach and which…

Two  job openings (PhD, Postdoc) at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), digital health innovation and ageing

Deadline - June 19, 2019 / 05:00 PMThe Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is looking for an excellent, motivated and goal-oriented Postdoctoral Researcher and one PhD candidate with a background in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and/or Innovation Studies. It will be the primary task of the Postdoc to contribute to the international research project GATEKEEPER, funded under…

Fully funded PhD position at NUI Galway: Disability, Old Age and the Life Course: Voices of Experience

Deadline - May 06, 2019 / 05:00 PMThe Disability Advocacy Research in Europe (DARE) Marie Curie ETN, based at NUI Galway, Ireland, is seeking applications for the following fully funded PhD position at NUI Galway: Disability, Old Age and the Life Course: Voices of Experience. This individual project will explore the continuities and discontinuities in policy and legal discourses…

Postdoctoral fellow in Ageing and Later Life Norrkoping

Deadline - April 07, 2019 / 05:00 PMThe Division Ageing and Social Change (ASC), Department of Social and Welfare Studies (ISV) at Linköping University, Sweden, is seeking to recruit to the following position: Postdoctoral fellow - ageing, gender, life course and social exclusion The postdoctoral fellow will work within the international comparative research project ‘GENPATH - GENdered…

LKAS PhD Scholarship

Deadline - January 11, 2019 / 05:00 PMINNOVATION IN COMMUNITY MODELS OF ‘HOUSING WITH CARE' Project Summary: Ageing is often depicted as a burden for society, but there is now a growing realisation that it also provides many opportunities for economic growth and innovation in housing, care and co-production. Aligned to this, a shift in thinking can be…