Vacancy: PhD Studentship – Cultures of Health (Inequalities) in a City of Culture

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University of Hull

To celebrate the University’s research successes, the University of Hull is offering one full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship or International Fees Bursary for candidates applying for the following project.

Studentships will start on 26th September 2016.

Supervisors:

Dr Lisa Dikomitis,  L.Dikomitis@hull.ac.uk,  +44 (0)1482 465195, School of Social Sciences
Professor Vassos Argyrou, V.Argyrou@hull.ac.uk, +44 (0)1482 466305, School of Social Sciences

We are seeking a social scientist to undertake methodologically and conceptually ambitious doctoral research around the social and cultural dimensions of health. The aim of this project is to begin the process of fundamentally rethinking health inequalities based on ethnographic fieldwork in Hull.

Hull—the UK’s City of Culture 2017—ranks 144 out 150 local authorities in terms of premature deaths (Public Health England), while life expectancy in the city is 11.9 years lower for men and 8.6 years lower for women in the most deprived areas than in the least deprived areas (Health Profile 2014). It is clear that something needs to be done—urgently so. But do we really know what is causing these inequalities? We could put them down to the usual suspects: inadequate provision, material deprivation, environmental factors and what might be called the ‘cultural poverty’ of the social groups at the bottom of the health and longevity hierarchy. Yet decades after such solutions and the problem has not been solved. Could it be that a fresh perspective is needed?

The PhD researcher will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in two locations in Hull that differ significantly in terms of material deprivation and life expectancy. The key concern will be to find out to what extent, and how exactly, different cultures shape perceptions of health and illness and mediate heath warnings, whether these warnings come in the form of publicly available information—for example, ‘smoking kills’—or in the form of physical symptoms.

This project is part of the ‘Health, Well-Being and Social Inclusion’ research group which views health and illness beyond a purely clinical perspective. Its mission is to explore the changing landscape of health, illness and medicine from a social science perspective. This is a long-standing strong and vibrant interdisciplinary research cluster in the School of Social Sciences which provides a strong research base within which the Studentship will be located.

To apply for this post please click on the Apply button below.

In order to qualify for this scholarship you will require an undergraduate degree with at least a 2.1, or equivalent in a relevant subject.

Full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarships will include fees at the ‘home/EU’ student rate and maintenance (£14,057 in 2015/16) for three years, depending on satisfactory progress.

Full-time International Fee PhD Studentships will include full fees at the International student rate for three years, dependent on satisfactory progress.

PhD students at the University of Hull follow modules for research and transferable skills development and gain a Masters level Certificate, or Diploma, in Research Training, in addition to their research degree.

Successful applicants will be informed of the award as soon as possible and by 30th April 2016 at the latest.

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Vacature: Nederlandstalige Coördinator/trice bij Sophia vzw

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Sophia vzw, Belgisch Netwerk voor Genderstudies

Zoekt iemand met:

• Een universitair diploma (je mag ook solliciteren als je laatstejaarsstudent bent en in januari 2016 zal afstuderen)
• Kennis van en belangstelling voor genderstudies en de vrouwenbeweging in Vlaanderen/België
• Een uitstekende kennis van het Nederlands, een goede kennis van het Engels en een goede passieve kennis van het Frans
• Een vlotte pen en goede mondelinge communicatievaardigheden
• Kennis van ICT en websitebeheer is een pluspunt
• Een ingesteldheid om zeer zelfstandig evenals in groep te werken

Functie:
• Opstellen en versturen van de elektronische nieuwsbrief en updaten van de website
• Medewerking aan de avonden, studiedagen en colloquia georganiseerd door Sophia
• Vertalen en editen van teksten
• Opvolging en ontwikkeling van Vlaamse en buitenlandse contacten in genderstudies
• Opvolging van de administratie van Sophia en deelname aan de vergaderingen van de Raad van Bestuur
• Opvolging ledenadministratie

Dit gebeurt in nauwe samenwerking met de Franstalige coördinatrice en in samenspraak met de voorzitsters van Sophia.

Aanbod:
• Een halftijdse aanstelling in een kleine, dynamische, tweetalige vzw vanaf 01/02/2016
• Een functie op het raakvlak tussen de academische wereld, het middenveld en de overheid
• Een aangename werkomgeving in de buurt van de Botanique in Brussel
• Redelijk flexibele werkuren
• Een verloning volgens PC 329.02 (Soc-­‐Cul.Frans Gem.)

Geïnteresseerd?
• Stuur voor 5 januari 2016 uw CV en motivatiebrief naar Petra Meier: petra.meier@uantwerpen.be
• Meer informatie voor 17 december: info@sophia.be of 02/ 229 38 69
• De gesprekken en een schriftelijke oefening vinden plaats op donderdag 21 januari 2016 in de lokalen van Sophia, Middaglijnstraat 10, 1210 Brussel.

 

The First Annual Machteld de Metsenaere Lecture

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RHEA  Centre of Expertise Gender,  Diversity & Intersectionality
is pleased to present

The First Annual Machteld de Metsenaere Lecture

Thursday, December 3, 2015, 5-7 pm
Promotiezaal  (Campus Etterbeek, room D.2.01 in building D)

Carrying as a Feminist Method
by Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmith College)

The body has a memory, and embodied sensibilities shape our research in ways that we yet have to fully understand. This paper unpacks the notion of “carrying” as an embodied set of experiences and influences that bear upon us in the selection or avoidance of research matters. This discussion considers the informative and affective properties of sensibilities that touch our research directions. It is well recognised that we acquire and carry a body of books for company. What is not so easily acknowledged is the small incidents that stay with us and which often unknowingly offer anchorage to our points of attention. Commonly we carry a set of aesthetics which we struggle to give legitimacy. Most often the risks of anthropological romanticism or scientific reductionism constrain our attempts to work with different ways of being, seeing and feeling. This lecture considers the example of Giddha (Punjabi song and dance between women) that provides an instance of embodied transnational carrying of stories, voice and humour. This however is not an exercise in museum preservation or a politics of salvation.

Nirmal Puwar is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of Methods Lab at Goldsmith College, University of London. Her work explores postcolonialism, institutions, race and gender, and critical methodologies. She is author of the book Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies out of place (2004) and co-editor of eighteen collections, including: Live Methods; Intimacy in Research; Post-colonial Bourdieu; Fashion and Orientalism and South Asian Women in the Diaspora. She is co-convenor of the Race Forum of the British Sociological Association. In her recent work she has collaboratively worked on a number of projects involved with inventive and public methods.

The lecture is followed by a response by Sarah Bracke (RHEA)

Master Class with Nirmal Puwar

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Master Class with Nirmal Puwar

Friday, December 4th, 2015
9.30 am – 1 pm, Campus Etterbeek

The Machteld de Metsenaere lecture is followed by a master class, which offers interested graduate students the opportunity to explore the notion of carrying more in depth together with Nirmal Puwar.

The master class is open to doctoral students and advanced MA students. Participation is free of charge, but conditional upon application (see below). Participation to the master class requires attending the public lecture, reading the assigned readings, and preparing a brief (10 minutes) presentation of one’s research project. This presentation should focus on (feminist) methodological issues and embodiment, and might reflect on how an understanding of “carrying” plays out in one’s own research.

PhD students from any Flemish university receive one credit (1 ECTS) upon completion of the master class. Other PhD students receive, on completion, a ‘proof of successful participation’, which can be recognized by their home PhD programme. MA students can apply for registration on an individual basis and receive ‘proof of successful participation’.

How to apply?
Send us a brief statement of interest by October 31, 2015.

The statement should include a presentation of your research, with special emphasis on methodological and epistemological issues, as well as present questions that you would like to see addressed during the master class. The statement should not exceed 1000 words, and should be sent to sarah.bracke@vub.ac.be

You will be notified by November 10 about your participation to the master class. A brief reading list will be available from that date onwards.

The public lecture and master class are sponsored by: Doctoral School for Human Sciences,  Expertisecentrum Gender, Diversiteit & Intersectionaliteit

Judith Van Schuylenbergh creëerde webpagina over seksualiteit en transgenders

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Judith Van Schuylenbergh deed een stage bij het Transgender Infopunt van het UZ Gent. Ze deed een literatuuronderzoek naar seksualiteitsbeleving van transvrouwen en transmannen en verwerkte de resultaten tot een informatieve webpagina met onderwerpen zoals lichaamsbeleving, seksuele orientatie, relaties, etc. De webpagina ‘seksualiteit’ kan via deze link gevonden worden, alsook andere informatieve luiken van het Transgender Infopunt.

Vacature: Projectcoördinator v/m bij Vrouwenraad

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‘Empowerment alleenstaande moeders met een leefloon in ocmw’s’

De Vrouwenraad is de overkoepelende organisatie voor alle verenigingen die werken aan gelijke kansen voor vrouwen en mannen. Organisaties met verschillende achtergronden zijn bij ons aangesloten. Meer info op www.vrouwenraad.be
De Vrouwenraad zoekt voor onmiddellijke indiensttreding een
voltijdse projectcoördinator op universitair niveau.

Takenpakket
Coördineren van het project (Vlaanderen, Brussel, Wallonië,) vanuit genderperspectief
(planning, organisatie en opvolging)
Ondersteunen en organiseren van de projectstuurgroep
Samenwerking met een wetenschappelijke instelling, case-managers in ocmw’s, vrouwen- en armoedenetwerken
Opstellen eindrapport

Profiel

  • Masterdiploma
  • tweetalig (Nl. en Fr.)
  • ervaring als projectcoördinator is een pluspunt
  • vertrouwd zijn met de werking van ocmw’s
  • interesse voor de link tussen gender, armoede, alleenstaande moeders
  • erkennen van diversiteit in de samenleving
  • inzicht in de meerwaarde van gekruiste expertise (gender en interculturaliteit)
  • zelfstandig kunnen werken
  • feeling met armoedeproblematiek en positie alleenstaande moeders met een leefloon

Vereiste kennis

  • kennis van gender en empowermentprocessen van vrouwen, interesse voor feminisme
  • kennis van projectcoördinatie
  • ICT: reguliere programma’s

Vaardigheden

  • efficiënte werkorganisatie: verantwoordelijk voor eigen planning en in staat prioriteiten te bepalen
  • redactionele vaardigheden
  • communicatieve vaardigheden
  • deadlines respecteren

Wij bieden

  • contract van bepaalde duur van 15.10.2015 tot 14.10.2016
  • niveau Master (max. 5 jaar anciënniteit wordt meegenomen)
  • gratis openbaar vervoer van en naar het werk
  • maaltijdcheques
  • werkomstandigheden die rekening houden met combinatie van job en privéleven

Voor meer informatie over deze functie kan u vanaf 16 september 2015 terecht bij Leen Scheerlinck op 02/229 38 19 of via nvr.lscheerlinck@amazone.be.

Zij verwacht uw sollicitatiebrief met CV vóór 10 oktober 2015.

Vrouwenraad
t.a.v Leen Scheerlinck
directeur
Middaglijnstraat 10
1210 Brussel
02/229 38 19

De eerste selectie gebeurt op basis van CV en motivatiebrief.

De kandidaten die het best beantwoorden aan de vereisten voor de functie zullen uitgenodigd worden voor een gesprek.

Vacature: Drie doctoraatsbursalen in Europese Tijdschriftstudies

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Three Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in European Periodical Studies

Applications are invited for three full-time fully funded PhD scholarships in European periodical studies tenable for a period of up to four year each in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. The successful candidates will participate in the project “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation, 1710-1920″, funded by an ERC Starting Grant and directed by Prof. dr. Marianne Van Remoortel. This project aims to map the transnational networks of intellectual and textual exchange through which women editors of periodicals impacted social and cultural life in early-eighteenth- to early-twentieth-century Europe.

Job description
You prepare a PhD on at least one of the five key thematic areas of the project (the early periodical, the novel, domestic ideology, consumer culture, women’s rights movements). You participate in the project as a team member and contribute to the project database.

Profile
You hold a Master’s degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant field, such as Literature, Comparative Literature or History. Experience in women’s history would be considered a plus.
You have an excellent command of at least two European languages – the term “European” taken here in the broadest historical sense of the word, not just the current European Union.
Additional reading knowledge of other European languages would be a plus.
You have good oral and written communication skills in English.
You have an outstanding academic record.
You have an aptitude for original and creative work, independently as well as in a team.

Conditions of employment
The scholarships are offered for a period of two years, extendable for another two years after positive evaluation. The starting date is 1 June 2016 at the latest.
The net salary will be approximately 1800 EUR per month, gradually rising to approximately 2000 EUR per month in the fourth year.
You will be based at Ghent University.

How to apply?
Submit your application via email to Marianne.VanRemoortel@UGent.be by 31 October 2015. Further information about the project and/or position can also be obtained at this address.

Applications should include:

a cover letter, in which you specify why you are interested in the project and why you consider yourself a suitable candidate
a current CV
transcripts of your qualifications to date (degrees and grade lists)
a writing sample (excerpt from your Master’s thesis, article, etc.)
a reference letter (e.g. from your thesis supervisor)

PUBLIC EVENT Excellence in academia, KU Leuven, October 13 th, 2015

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The working group ‘Women and University’ (VAPL), the vicerectorat diversity of KU Leuven and the League of European Universities invite you to a public event on

Excellence in academia
The what, the why, the how!

Academic excellence is a hotly discussed topic, but it remains unclear who or what really defines this elusive quality?  What is quality in academia and how can we best achieve it?  What sort of criteria do we currently use to evaluate academic excellence in our universities?  Are they doing any justice to the intrinsic qualities of academics currently working in our institutes?  Do we succeed in attracting, selecting and maintaining the most promising academics?  This seminar is meant to shed light on some of the underlying mechanisms that currently influence our understanding of excellence in academia and an invitation to contribute to a debate on how we are going to define quality and what sort of strategies should be outlined to strengthen us in achieving excellence on different levels within the university.

The event takes place on Tuesday October the 13th, from 1 to 4 PM in Museumzaal 00.08, Naamsestraat 22, Leuven

Program:

13.00u: Welcome and Introduction by Prof. Dr. Karin Hannes, Prof. Dr. Heleen Touquet & Prof. Dr. Kurt Deketelaere
13.20u: Excellence in academia, a public lecture by Prof. Dr. Curt Rice, Rector of the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences and Prof. Dr. Janet Beer, Vice-chancellor of Liverpool University, United Kingdom, including questions and answer session.
14.40u: Network Break
15.00u: Panel discussion, moderated by Prof.Dr. Peter Vermeersch, with contributions from:
Prof. Dr. Collette Van Laer, BOF ZAP gender KU Leuven
Dr. Katrien Maes, Chief Policy Officer of the League of European Research Universities
Dr. Anton Froeyman, Action Group Higher Education
15.45:    Plenary Questions and answers session
16.00:  Closing of the event by Vicerector Katlijn Malfliet & reception

Bio’s of the speakers:
https://www.kuleuven.be/diversiteit/biographics

Free access to the event, but registration is required.
https://www.kuleuven.be/diversiteit/registrationseminar

The workgroup Women and University thanks the VAPL and the Diversity Policy Office for sponsoring this public event.

Following this event, KU Leuven researchers are cordially invited to the internal event “Excellence in research and how to evaluate it”, starting at 16:15, organised by the vice-rector for research.

http://www.kuleuven.be/overonderzoek/en/index.html