The University of Lausanne is a higher teaching and research institution composed of seven faculties where approximately 14,300 students and nearly 3,900 collaborators, professors, and researchers work and study. Ideally situated along the lake of Geneva, near Lausanne’s city center, its campus brings together over 120 nationalities. The Institute of Social Sciences (ISS) invites applications for a position as:<\/p>\n
for a Swiss National Science Foundation entitled \u201cCoupled Inequalities. Trends and Welfare State Differences in the Role of Partner\u2019s Socio-Economic Resources for Employment Careers\u201d led by Prof. dr. Leen Vandecasteele<\/p>\n
The candidate will have the opportunity to become a member of the Doctoral Programme of the NCCR LIVES \u2018Overcoming vulnerability: life course perspectives\u2019<\/p>\n
Starting date: 01.10.2019
\nDuration of contract: 1 year, renewable for 3 years with a full duration of 4 years.
\nEmployment rate: 100%
\nWorkplace: University of Lausanne, G\u00e9opolis<\/p>\n
Your profile What we offer \/ expect Further information Your Application should include: Application deadline: 1 May 2019 Only applications through the UNIL career portal will be taken into account. Additional information <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Lausanne is a higher teaching and research institution composed of seven faculties where approximately 14,300 students and nearly 3,900 collaborators, professors, and researchers work and study. Ideally situated along the lake of Geneva, near Lausanne’s city center, its campus brings together over 120 nationalities. The Institute of Social Sciences (ISS) invites applications … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001092,"featured_media":0,"parent":120,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-129","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/leenvandecasteele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/leenvandecasteele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/leenvandecasteele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/leenvandecasteele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/leenvandecasteele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/leenvandecasteele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/leenvandecasteele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/leenvandecasteele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>– Master\u2019s degree in Social Sciences with a quantitative component (Sociology, Demography, Economics, Political Science, Psychology\u2026 or similar degree)
\n– Interest in topics of social inequality, social policy, life course and family sociology\/demography
\n– Practical experience with quantitative social science data analysis methods
\n– Familiarity with statistical software (e.g. Stata, R, SPSS)
\n– Working language is English<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– We offer a nice working place in a multicultural, diverse and dynamic academic environment
\n– The opportunity to collaborate in a team consisting of the principal researcher, a postdoc, phd-student and associated project partners
\n– The possibility to develop an independent phd-thesis fitting within the project aims
\n– The opportunity to participate in the LIVES doctoral program, in research training, in international congresses and to report research findings in international outlets.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/leenvandecasteele\/projects\/coineq\/<\/a>
\nFor further information please contact Leen.Vandecasteele@unil.ch<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>(1) Motivation letter
\n(2) CV, listing the names of two referees which we will contact independently (do not include reference letters)
\n(3) Grades obtained in Bachelor and Master\u2019s program
\n(4) A piece of academic writing as example (chapter of MA dissertation, seminar paper etc.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Interviews will provisionally take place in the week of 13-17 May 2019<\/p>\n
\nApply <\/strong>here: Doctoral student in Quantitative Social Research<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>UNIL is committed to promoting gender equality and strongly encourages applications from female candidates.<\/em><\/p>\n