Call for Managing Editor PARISS

About the journal
First published in 2020, Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS) is a cutting edge academic journal whose mission is to create a space for outstanding scholarship on the political, the anthropological, and the international marginalized elsewhere due to academic conventions. Encouraging transversal social inquiries and stylistic experimentation, PARISS seeks to transcend disciplinary, linguistic and cultural fragmentations characteristic of the contemporary international social sciences. To promote a plurality of ways of thinking, researching and writing, PARISS is committed to visibilizing contemporary social scientists, especially from non-English-speaking countries, whose works challenge established boundaries but have failed to internationalize precisely because of their unorthodoxy. It also offers academics a unique location to reflexively analyze their own socio-professional worlds and critique transformations presently redefining the contemporary university.

About the role
PARISS is presently looking to appoint a Managing Editor. This role will require you to assist the co-editors in chief with:
– Keeping track of submissions, both by email and through the editorial manager software. Suggesting reviewers for submissions.
– Liaising with authors and reviewers (through email) throughout the submission, review, and re-submission process.
– Communicating with the production team at BRILL publishers, particularly the desk editor, keeping the production of articles on track.
– Communicating with the Editorial Board and Scientific Committee, upon request.
– Submitting finalized articles by proxy to production, if necessary, through the editorial manager software.

In terms of skills and competencies, the co-editors in chief are ideally looking for candidates who:
– Have strong communication and deadline management skills.
– Possess a capacity to work autonomously and are detail-oriented.
– Have previous experience working for or with an academic journal.
– Have a multidisciplinary, international educational background and/or research experience.
– Speak English and are bi/multi-lingual.

The role of managing editor will be paid a stipend of Euro 750 per issue.

Application
Interested candidates should send a brief email by the 21st of December explaining their interest in the role and a CV to the following email address: parisseditorial@gmail.com.

Doctoral Fellowships within the ERC Project “Labour Politics & the EU’s New Economic Governance Regime” at University College Dublin

Application deadline: 10 April 2018

Start date: 10 September 2018

The European Research Council (ERC) project Labour Politics & the EU’s New Economic Governance Regime at the Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin, invites applications for up to three doctoral fellowships. The PhD fellows will be supervised by Roland Erne (principle investigator and professor of European integration & employment relations) and Sabina Stan (senior social scientist and lecturer in sociology & anthropology). Successful candidates will be part of an interdisciplinary, multinational team and must enrol in the joint doctoral programme of the Graduate Schools of Business, Social Sciences and Law.

We welcome original and independent PhD project proposals. However, proposals should fit within the scope of the ERC project Labour Politics and the EU’s New Economic Governance Regime (www.erc-europeanunions.eu/about-the-project/). The proposal can be situated in labour studies, sociology, social anthropology, political economy, or comparative politics and may include:

  •  Contentious politics; social movements; trade unionism; transnational collective action; interest group politics; EU politics; political and social consequences of economic crisis; social justice; Euroscepticism, class politics, technocracy and democracy;
  • Interactions between national and EU public policy (e.g. Germany, Italy, Romania and/or Ireland); access to public services (e.g. right to water, healthcare or transport); labour relations, labour law and social policy (e.g. wages, pensions, labour regulations).

Eligibility: Candidates must hold a master’s degree (or equivalent) in the social sciences and have received training in sociology, political sciences, social anthropology, industrial relations, or related disciplines. They should have experience with qualitative research and a good general knowledge of labour politics. A firm command of English is required. Working knowledge of one or two additional European languages is a strong advantage.

Fellowship conditions: Tax-free scholarship (€18,000 p.a. plus €6,170 p.a. fee remission grant); 4-year contract; access to structured PhD programme including language modules; laptop; conference and fieldwork expenses. Start date: 10/09/2018.

Application procedure

Required documents: a CV; a transcript of records from each university attended; a cover letter briefly describing your intellectual trajectory so far and discussing the topics that interest you (2 pages maximum); a PhD thesis project proposal (2,000 words maximum including abstract); and a writing sample such as an article, master thesis chapter, or term paper.

Please send the application compiled into a single PDF file to Bianca.Foehrer@ucd.ie by 10 April 2018 (with “PhD” in the subject line). Shortlisted candidates will be asked to nominate two academic referees and invited to an online interview. Final decisions will be made by the end of April 2018.

Informal inquiries can be sent to Roland.Erne@ucd.ie.

Call for Associate Editors, Political Research Exchange (PRX)

Call for Associate Editors, Political Research Exchange (PRX)

The ECPR will launch its new open access journal, Political Research Exchange (PRX) in January 2019 and is seeking a team of Associate Editors to work alongside the founding Editors in Chief, Alexandra Segerberg (University of Stockholm) and Simona Guerra (University of Leicester).

PRX will be published in partnership with Taylor & Francis and will aim to cover the full spectrum of political science and international relations, harnessing latest technology to provide fast publication, flexibility in article length and format coupled with the reach and access to all OA brings. PRX will be fully integrated into the structure of the ECPR through its Standing Groups and will be a key new membership benefit, providing significantly reduced article processing charges (APCs) for authors.

The Associate Editors, drawn from the ECPR’s Standing Groups, will provide a broad scope of subject expertise and will work with the Editors in Chief to shape the content and direction of the journal. A full job specification and application requirements can be found on the ECPR’s website, along with the aims and scope of the journal.

Interested candidates should submit an application to ECPR Communications Manager, Rebecca Gethen (rgethen@ecpr.eu) by the closing date of 5 March. Any queries about the role can also be directed to Rebecca in the first instance. After the closing date, the Editors in Chief, along with the ECPR’s Publications Subcommittee, will select a group of around 20 Associate Editors to take into the breadth of subject areas and methodologies reflected by the range of Standing Groups; Associate Editors will therefore work beyond their Standing Groups.

Two Full Professorships in Sociology at SNS

The Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) invites expressions of interest from qualified scholars in the field of Sociology, in view of the possible opening of positions in its Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali at the full professor level.

In particular we seek candidates with the following backgrounds:

  • Methodology of the social sciences, with a strong and pluralist profile in qualitative and quantitative methods, Qualitative Comparative Analysis as well as multimethods research designs.
  • Economic sociology, with particular attention to political economy within cross-national comparative analysis as well as attention to the international dynamics.

SNS looks for candidates with a proven record of achievements, a clear potential to promote and lead research activities and a specific interest in teaching at the graduate level to a small set of particularly skilled students.

English is the working language.

As a result of this enquiry, SNS will decide whether or not to fill a position, on the contract to offer or procedure to activate.

Expressions of interest, addressed to:

Prof. Mario Citroni
Preside dell’Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali
Scuola Normale Superiore
Palazzo Strozzi
Piazza degli Strozzi
50123 Firenze
Italy

can be sent by email to the address classi@sns.it, writing EOI/SOC in the subject field.

Deadline for the receipt of applications: August 15th, 2015.

Applications (in Italian or English) should include a CV, a description of current research interests and all relevant information about the applicant. Working knowledge of Italian is appreciated but not required.

Two ERC-funded PhD Studentships in Politics/Social Science at the University of Exeter (Streatham Campus)

The PhDs are funded through a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC-STATORG) awarded to Principal Investigator (PI) Prof. Nicole Bolleyer. The five-year, interdisciplinary project addresses the following questions: Which regulatory frameworks are in place in 19 long-lived democracies to steer the behaviour of membership-based, voluntary organizations (e.g. parties, NGOs, interest groups, charities) (phase 1)? How do distinct regulatory frameworks affect the operation, evolution and survival of these voluntary organizations (phase 2)?

The two studentships are embedded in phase 2 of STATORG which studies the long-term evolution of parties, interest groups and charities formed post 1980 in a small number of long-lived democracies – qualitatively and quantitatively. The democracies will be characterized by different regulatory frameworks (e.g. funding regimes, allocation of tax benefits, regulation of legal recognition, election law, lobby regulation) to assess how different organizations adapt to their respective environment (e.g. in terms of organizational change, strategic adaptation).
The two PhD students can have backgrounds in various social science disciplines (e.g. politics, sociology, economics). They will contribute a) to a comparative study of developmental patterns of environmental groups, political parties and social policy organizations (through in-depth interviews and qualitative document analysis) and b) to a quantitative comparative analysis (using event history/survival analysis) on the features that affect organizations’ likelihood to survive. Next to the opportunity to write a PhD in the context of an ambitious, interdisciplinary project, there will be opportunities for all team members to co-author conference papers and academic publications, i.e. these posts will provide an excellent foundation for an academic career.

More information on this position can be found on this website

The International Post-Doc Initiative for female researchers, Technische Universität Berlin

Between 2013 and 2018 the International Post-Doc Initiative (IPODI) of the Technische Universität Berlin awards 21+2 two-year fellowships to international female researchers in three internationally open calls. IPODI is part of an initiative (Wissenschaftlerinnen an die Spitze) that aims at increasing the number of women in leadership positions. IPODI addresses outstanding female researchers regardless of their nationality or age and is open to applications from all fields of research represented at the TU Berlin.

The second call for applications is open until 15 December 2014. A further call for applications will follow in 2015.

IPODI has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 600209 (Marie Curie Co-funding of Regional, National, and International Programmes).

The call is open between 15 September and 15 December.

– Applicants must have at least two and not more than ten years of research experience after obtaining their doctoral degree.
– Applicants must not have resided in Germany for more than 12 months in the three years prior to the application deadline.
– The research proposal has to fit into one of the fields of research represented in the seven faculties of the TU Berlin.
– The research proposal has to be supported by a cooperating Professor at the TU Berlin.

The call can be found here: http://www.ipodi.tu-berlin.de/

2 research positions, University of Potsdam (Germany), sub-project of research group on international public administration

The University of Potsdam (Germany), Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, invites applications for two positions:

Academic Staff Members (Reference number: 113/2014)

Successful candidates will work for 26 hours per week and should be able to begin work on 1 June 2014. Both positions end on 31 May 2017. Remuneration is based on German pay grade 13 “TV-Länder”.

The positions are associated with the larger Research Group “International Public Administrations. The Emergence and Development of Administrative Patterns and their Effects on International Policy-Making”, which is funded by the DFG and coordinated by Professor Christoph Knill (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich). Successful candidates will contribute to the project “Who has a say? Extent, Variation and Determinants of Expert Authority of International Public Administrations”. The project analyzes to what extent and under what conditions international public administrations (secretariats of intergovernmental organizations) enjoy expert authority and how their expert authority varies and why. It focuses on the secretariats of the World Bank, FAO, UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, WHO, OECD, OCHA, OHCHR and EU-ECHO and the issue area „Human Security“. Specific tasks include

Contributing to conceiving, preparing and implementing a survey among government officials in a stratified sample of 80 countries by means of computer-assisted telephone interviewing
Processing, cleaning and analyzing survey data by means of appropriate statistical procedures
Collecting data by means of a) literature and document analysis and b) semi-standardized interviews with staff in international public administrations and experts
Processing and coding of collected data
Contributing to analysis of research results and publications
Applications should either be emailed to Marion Dräger (draegerm@uni-potsdam.de) or by sent by post to Professor Andrea Liese, Chair of International Organizations and Public Policy, August-Bebel-Straße 89, 14482 Potsdam. Deadline: 07.04.2014.

More information

Complete Job Advertisement (includes detailed information on essential and desirable qualifications as well as on required application documents)

http://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/intorg/assets/ipa-job-advertisement-final.pdf
Summary of Research Project

http://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/intorg/research/international-bureaucracies.html