Gendergraduates

Marie Curie Fellowships for Early Stage Training in Gender and Women's Studies
EU Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)

The project ended on March 31, 2009. Consequently there are no more vancancies available!


On 1 April 2005 a unique new programme started that provides fellowships for graduate students in Gender and Women's Studies in Europe. This progamme, which is being coordinated by Utrecht University in the Netherlands together with 6 European Universities, is funded by the Marie Curie Early Stage Training Programme of the European Commission.
The Marie Curie Fellowships for Early Stage Training in the field of Gender and Women's Studies allows early stage researchers access to a training programme offered by a network of seven universities in different European countries. The partner institutions, with proven record of high expertise in gender research and education, will jointly train and exchange junior PhD s tudents. The Marie Curie Early Stage Training Scheme is designed to encourage international mobility and therefore carries an enhanced salary/stipend package.

The partner institutions include:

• University of Bologna (Italy, Prof. Vita Fortunati),
• Cornelia Goethe Centrum in Frankfurt am Main (Germany, Prof. Brita Rang),
• University of York (United Kingdom, Prof. Gabriele Griffin),
• Linköping University (Sweden, Prof. Nina Lykke),
• Ljubljana Graduate School in Humanities (Slovenia, Prof. Svetlana Slapsak),
• University of Lodz (Poland, Prof. Elzbieta Oleksy),
• Utrecht University (Netherlands, Prof. Rosemarie Buikema, coordinator)

The training structure is a core curriculum of structured advanced courses, some jointly taught by the partners. The language of instruction will be English. Furthermore, each partner university will also provide training and supervision.

The Gender Studies Department of Utrecht University co-ordinates the Gendergraduates Fellowships.

Each fellow will be affiliated with one of the 7 partner universities and will be part of a PhD programme at this university. Fellows are encouraged to travel for the training purposes at the early stage of their training, and to do initial work on their dissertation.

The fellowships are for beginning PhD students and not open to post-PhD researchers.

INTERESTED?
We envisage projects in the field of gender and the humanities, with special emphasis on cultural studies in the areas of ethnicity, subjectivity, sexuality in the arts and/or technology and the media. We are looking for candidates with a strong interdisciplinary profile and expertise with both the analysis of texts and artifacts, empirical work and/or interviews and with theoretical discussions. The students, apart from being trained in the field of feminist and/or post-colonial studies should preferably have an academic background in literature, art history, music, film, media studies, social work, anthropology, ethnography and/or philosophy.


WHAT DOES THE FELLOWSHIP COVER?
The fellowship covers: living, mobility, travel and career exploratory allowances according to the EU standards. However, medical health insurance is not included in the grant although some EU countries provide this automatically.


SOME REQUIREMENTS FOR ELIGIBILITY
Each eligible researcher must simultaneously fulfill the following criteria:

· Nationality:
The researcher must be a national of a Member State of the European Community, or an Associated State or a third country if legal residence/main activity has been in a Member State or Associated State for at least 4 years out of the 5 years prior to the appointment. In that case the researcher will be considered a national of the state in which s/he has resided for the longest period.

· Mobility:
The nationality of the fellow must be different from the country in which the host university is located. In the case of holding dual nationality, the researcher will be able to be hosted by the university from the country of her/his nationality provided s/he has not resided there during the last 5 years.
At the time of appointment, the legal residence/main activity may not have been in the country of the contractor for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the appointment. Short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.
Researchers holding the nationality from a Member State or an Associated Candidate State can carry out their research training activities in their country of nationality if they can provide evidence testifying that their legal residence/main activity was in a third country for at least 4 of the last 5 years immediately prior to the appointment.
A researcher from a third country cannot carry out his/her research training activities in a third country.

· Qualifications:
Candidates applying for this fellowship should have a university degree (preferably MA). Please be aware that entrance requirements for doctoral studies may differ at the participating host-institutions. The degree must demonstrate a clearly identifiable interest in Gender and Women's Studies, as evidenced in a minimum of 45 ECTS in this field of study. Candidates should have demonstrable knowledge of the main types of research questions and methods in the field of Gender and Women's Studies as well as a working knowledge of the basic concepts used in the discipline; have demonstrable research qualities and above average scores; be highly motivated to do academic research. A good knowledge of English is required.
The researcher is within the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of her/his research activity (including training) since gaining a university degree (or equivalent institution of higher education) giving access to doctoral studies in the country in which the degree was obtained. The degree/s already obtained must entitle the holder to embark on doctoral studies without having to acquire any further qualifications. Researchers who have already obtained a doctoral degree are not eligible.


Please contact us for more information:
gendergraduates@uu.nl
www.gendergraduates.org

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