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PhD Position - Theory and Empirics Applied to Women

PhD Project: Micro-Meso-Macro Empirics

The main objective of this project is to study how the interaction between individuals in a firm affects the likelihood that the firm will mediate in attempts to change institutions. It will do so by looking at the relationships between individuals’ value orientations and firm’s social norms, and between these norms and the firm’s formal rules, in each of the three countries. This will be addressed by collecting and analyzing field survey data from employers and employees of randomly selected firms in each country e.g., using data banks of national chambers of commerce or branch organizations. These data will be used to explain cross-firm variations (per country) in the extent of mediation by cross-firm differences in the relationships between individuals’ value orientations and organizations’ social norms, and between these social norms and the organizations’ formal rules.

Possibly, the project will be extended to investigate how social mobilization between the firm and other organizations (e.g., trade unions, political parties, women lobby groups) affects the likelihood of successful institutional change. This will be addressed by combining the field survey data with in-depth interviews in each country with key informants from firms (e.g., female board professionals), unions, political parties, women’s lobbies, churches, etc.

Eligibility

The eligible candidate should have the following qualifications:

• Master’s or Research Master’s Degree in one of the social sciences (or expectation of completion before the starting date of the project);
• Affinity with quantitative and qualitative methods and techniques in the social sciences;
• Interest in interdisciplinary research;
• Willingness to give English-language presentations, to publish in the English language, and to teach in the Field of Social Sciences (in English as well);
• Language competencies in other languages than Dutch or English will be considered as an advantage

The position will be on a temporary basis for the period of 3 or 4 years (12 months plus a further 24 or 36 months after a positive evaluation and depending on the preparatory training). The project will start in the fall of 2012. The gross monthly salary will be € 2,042 in the first year and € 2,612 in the fourth year in the case of a full-time position (38 hrs / week). Secondary benefits at Dutch universities are attractive and include 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end of year bonus.

Application

Applications, in the form of a motivation letter and a full CV (including the names and contact details of two references from which information about the candidate can be obtained) must be sent by e-mail to application-soca-fmg@uva.nl.

Emailed applications should bear the text: PhD research project “CITE women” in the subject line and should contain the documents as an attachment (pdf). Further inquires concerning the project itself can be obtained from Dr. Klarita Gërxhani (k.gerxhani@uva.nl ).

For more information regarding the AISSR, go here.
For more information regarding the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, see here.

The deadline is 10 July, 2012.