PhD scholarship: Cross-border public administration in the Fehmarn Belt Region, Denmark

PhD scholarship: Cross-border public administration in the Fehmarn Belt Region
The PhD programme of Welfare, Governance and Citizenship within the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, hereby announces a PhD scholarship for a PhD project about crossborder public governance in the emerging Danish-German border-region of Fehmarn Belt. The scholarship will be available from March, 2009 or soon after.

The scholarship covers a period of three years. The successful applicant will be asked to contribute with 500 hours of work to the Department (teaching at one of the Department’s Master’s programmes and dissemination of research to a broader audience etc.). The annual salary is based on previous governmental employments and the general agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) (annually by October 1, 2008: 249.777 – 328.784 DKK + pension contribution). The successful candidate should also preferably stay at least six months abroad. For the purpose of this project the graduate school has already made contacts to University of Potsdam, Germany.

We are looking for a candidate with a master’s degree (or equivalent) in political science, public administration, political geography or a similar graduate background. In addition it would be, given the empirical area of the PhD project, desirable (albeit not required) if the successful candidate master both Danish and German. The successful applicant will be enrolled in the PhD Programme of Welfare, Governance and Citizenship and will have to comply with the rules of the Danish Ministerial Order on the PhD programme at Universities (14th of January 2008):

http://www.ubst.dk/lovgivning/Ph%20d%20-bekendtgorelsen%20-%20engelsk%20oversettelse%20DOK462957.pdf

For further information, please contact the Head of Department: Dr Gorm Rye Olsen (gormrye@ruc.dk), the director of the PhD Programme: Prof Eva Sørensen (eva@ruc.dk), or the planned supervisor: Dr Karl Löfgren (klof@ruc.dk). For more information about the Department of Society and Globalisation and Roskilde University, please see: www.ruc.dk/isg

The application must be in English and include a CV, documentation (copies) of examinations passed and a project description of maximum 5 pages. The description should include an outline of the problem area to be studied, the research questions raised, the theoretical approach taken and methodological considerations, as well as a work and time plan. The project description and other material should be forward in three copies to:

Roskilde University

Department of Society and Globalisation

Building 24.2

Postbox 260

DK-4000 Roskilde

Att.: Janni Villadsen

Deadline for applications is 2 February, 2009 at 12.00 noon.Material received after this time will not be taken into account.