The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites applications for a PhD position at the Faculty of Humanities, tenable from 1 September 2020 (4 years, 1 FTE).
What are you going to do?
The tasks of the selected PhD candidate will include:
Fixed-term contract: 16 months.
The PhD candidate at the Faculty of Humanities will be employed within the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. The employment contract will be for 4 years for 38 hours per week-1 FTE (including 0,2 teaching in the second and third years of the employment contract) under the terms of employment currently valid for the Faculty. Initially, a contract will be given for 16 months, with an extension for the following 32 months on the basis of a positive evaluation after 12 months. The starting date of the contract is 1 September 2020.
The salary for the position (based on a full-time contract) will be €2,325 during the first year (gross per month) and will reach €2,972 during the fourth year, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities. The PhD candidate receives a tuition fee waiver and has free access to courses offered by the Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities and the Dutch National Research Schools.
With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.
The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) is one of the six research schools/institutes under the aegis of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research. Each research school/institute covers an important research area within the faculty and has its own research programme. ASCA is home to more than 110 researchers and 120 PhD candidates, and is a world-leading research school in Cultural Analysis. ASCA members share a commitment to studying culture in all its forms and expressions within an interdisciplinary framework, and to maintaining a close connection with contemporary cultural and political debates.
Research schools are the home base for PhD candidates, who interact with each other and with senior members in the research groups that make up the research school (for ASCA’s research constellations, network groups and research seminars & reading groups, see our website).
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The UvA is an equal-opportunity employer. We prioritise diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We value a spirit of enquiry and perseverance, provide the space to keep asking questions, and promote a culture of curiosity and creativity.
AIHR wants to improve the diversity of its academic community with respect to ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. Applications that contribute to this are particularly encouraged.
Your application should include the following:
Please supply this information in the order given above and submit your full application as one PDF file, using your surname followed by your initials as the file name, via the link below (“Apply now”). Please note that your application will not be taken into consideration if you send multiple files, and/or if your application is late and/or incomplete.
The deadline for applications is 31 March 2020.
The applications will be evaluated by a selection committee composed of representatives of the academic staff and a PhD researcher of ASCA. The committee will make a selection of candidates to invite for an interview in Amsterdam. The final selection will be made following the interviews.
31 March 2020: Deadline submission applications
1 April 2020: Applications are checked for completeness
Last week-April : Applicants are informed whether they are invited for an interview
End April-Early May : Interviews with candidates
Early May: Applicants informed about the result
1 September 2020: Applicants start PhD projects
This application process is managed by the employer (University of Amsterdam (UvA)). Please contact the employer for questions regarding your application.