PhD position: Understanding Gendered Interregionalism EU Africa (1,0 fte)
Nijmegen School of Management
Maximum Salary: ? 2,612 gross/month
Vacancy number: 27.06.10
Closing date: 24 May 2010
Job description
'Normative Power Europe' claims to promote regional cooperation through its aid and trade policies. It also claims to mainstream gender in all its policies. Regional organizations in the South, such as Mercosur and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), contest both claims. The international research network GRANddEUR (Gender, Regions and Norm Diffusion: Debunking Eurocentrism) investigates the interregional diffusion of norms: how interregional relations silence or empower state and non-state actors and how the connections between different levels (subnational-national-regional-interregional) hamper or promote the diffusion of norms. We assume that it is impossible to grasp these processes by applying an EU-centric perspective. Therefore we investigate the two-way traffic between the South and the EU. Our focus is on norms related to women's rights, because they are crosscutting all policy domains and their consistent implementation would entail high economic, political and ideological costs at all levels.
You will specifically investigate how gender norms 'travel' and what is causing unevenness and inconsistencies in the promotion of gender equality in the relations between Southern Africa and the EU. You will develop a theoretical model of interregional norm diffusion, apply the theoretical framework to the relations between SADC and EU and analyze the processes at work as regards the fixing, bending and stretching of gender norms.
Requirements
You have a Master's degree in the field of Political Science, International Relations or a related discipline with a social science background. You should be knowledgeable about gender issues. Furthermore, you have good social skills and a good command of spoken and written English. Knowledge of Dutch and Portuguese is an asset.
Organization
Radboud University Nijmegen is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. Established in 1923 and situated in the oldest city of the Netherlands, it has nine faculties and over 17,500 students enrolled in 107 study programmes. It is a place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place on a beautiful green campus in modern buildings with state-of-art facilities.
The Faculty of Management Sciences consists of seven departments: Business Administration, Economics, Human Geography, Political Science, Public Administration, Social Sciences of the Environment, and Spatial Planning. The research activities of the Faculty are bundled in the Institute for Management Research (IMR). The IMR conducts fundamental and applied research on the development, design and effectiveness of the public and private structures that regulate, govern or manage human interaction. The multidisciplinary composition of the IMR makes it possible to analyse such structures from different theoretical perspectives. The IMR currently has three research programmes. Researchers of Public Administration and Political Science cooperate in the research programme SHIFTS (Institutional shifts in government and governance in a comparative and international perspective).
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Conditions of employment
Employment: 1,0 fte
Maximum salary per month, based on a fulltime employment: 2,612 gross/month
The gross starting salary is 2,042 per month based on full-time employment and will increase to 2,612 per month in the fourth year. PhD scale.
Additional conditions of employment
You will be appointed as a PhD student for a period of four years. Your performance will be evaluated after 18 months. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years. The project is scheduled to start on September 1st, 2010.
Other Information
Website dr. Anna van der Vleuten.
Additional Information
Dr Anna van der Vleuten, Associate Professor of European Integration
Telephone: +31 24 3612330, +31 24 3612754
Application
You can apply for the job (mention the vacancy number 27.06.10) before 24 May 2010 by sending your application -preferably by email- to:
Radboud University Nijmegen,
Dienst P&O
PO Box 7005,
6503 GM NIJMEGEN - the Netherlands
Telephone: + 31 24 3611173
E-mail: vacatures@dpo.ru.nl
