Tag: Denmark

Danish Institute for Human Rights: Migration & Human Rights Researcher (Denmark)

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Migration and Human Rights Researcher, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark Deadline: 17 November 2025.

Migration and human rights is a rapidly developing field in both research and practice. The Danish Institute for Human Rights is now recruiting a researcher who can contribute to strengthening their profile and activities in this field, in academic research as well as in international programmes and projects.

They are particularly interested in a researcher with strong legal expertise in the protection of asylum-seekers’ and migrants’ rights; the impact of migration on civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights; a rights-based approach to migration governance including border control and monitoring mechanisms; EU and Danish regulation and policy in this area, including in relation to transfer and outsourcing of asylum-seekers, etc. to third States; and in the evolving jurisprudence from courts and UN and other supranational human rights mechanisms and procedures, including UNHCR policies and practice. Knowledge about countering of migrant smuggling and trafficking would also be relevant.

Copenhagen Winter School in Sociolinguistics 2026 (Denmark)

Study Abroad

Copenhagen Winter School in Sociolinguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-13 March 2026. Deadline: 1 December 2025.

The LANCHART Centre and the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen once again invite applicants for a PhD winter school in sociolinguistics. The winter school will take place from the 9th to the 13th of March 2026 at the University of Copenhagen. The overall theme for the course is sociolinguistics understood broadly, and the participants will gain insights into different research fields within contemporary sociolinguistics. Focus is on newer developments and we will address themes and questions raised within the study of language, variation and indexicality as well as discourse oriented studies of language, diversity and social media. These issues will be discussed both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective.

Each day will consist of presentations of PhD projects from participants, discussions, and lectures from teachers. Invited guest teachers: Sinfree Makoni (Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State University), Sari Pietikäinen (Professor, Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä), Emma Moore, Professor( Department of English, University of Sheffield). Local teachers: Marie Maegaard (Professor, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen), Lian Malai Madsen (Professor, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen).

U Copenhagen: Postdoctoral Researcher in International Migration Studies (Denmark)

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Postdoctoral researcher in International Migration Studies, Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.  Deadline: 7 September 2025.

The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invite applications for a postdoctoral position in international migration studies from 1 January 2026. The position is a fixed-term position for 24 months.

The postdoc will be based on the Institute’s innterdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS). They seek a strong candidate with a dynamic profile in the broad, international field of migration studies, who can document an impressive track record of humanities and/or social science research on matters relating to the topics in the REGENERATION research project below.

The postdoctoral position is part of the research project REGENERATION, financed by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, studying the changes in gender norms and practices women Ukrainian without male fen in Denmark after the Russian among 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Investigating the growing phenomenon of “feminized displacement” to the EU, this project focuses on gender by following women’s re-settlement in Denmark, studying how they re-established everyday structures, create, and elseient toward the future through relations with kin (family and acquaintances) and through encountering Danish institutions’ locally and Ukrainian institutions transnationally. The project aims to develop a novel analytical framework to understand processes of “re-degeneration,” concepts on the re-making of life after war, relatedness with kin, institutions and the state, and intersectionality.

The postdoc project focus on women with children and qualitative applies, visual and ethnographic methods in studying their everyday life, local and transnational relations and encounters with the Danish welfare state (Work-package 2).

In two other sub-studies of the larger research project, the focus is on gender norms and practices Ukrainian women without conferred children and welfare state actors, working with women Ukrainian.

U Southern Denmark: Journalism &/or International Politics (Denmark)

“JobFull Professorships in Journalism and/or International Politics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Deadline: 1 August 2025.

The Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, invites applications for a number of permanent professorships in political science and journalism as of March 1, 2026, or as agreed. With this call, the department is looking for strong profiles that can contribute to the department’s research section in either Journalism or International and Regional Politics.

Successful applicants must be able and willing to take a leading role in realizing the department’s four strategic objectives to:

  • produce high-quality and original research
  • build a sustainable portfolio of attractive, research-based study programmes
  • strengthen the outreach of our research and our focus on high societal relevance
  • secure a motivating and inspiring work environment for all employees.The department values a diversity of competences and profiles. The expectations for a full professorship at the department are described in the Scholarly Qualification Matrix – REEAD for the Department of Political Science and Public Management. Based on the criteria in the Scholarly Qualification Matrix – REEAD, the applicants must present a clear academic profile. By academic profile, the department understands the combined quality of research, education, external funding, academic citizenship, and dissemination.

    The successful applicants will be affiliated with the department’s research section for International and Regional Politics (IRP) or Journalism. The applicant is expected to outline how their academic profile and future research plans contribute to the strategy and current activities in one of these units.

The Science Behind the Human Library (Denmark)

Applied ICD

The Science Behind the Human Library’s Methodology, Human Library Organization, Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Human Library creates a safe space for dialogue where topics are discussed openly between human “books” and their readers. The human books are volunteers with personal experience with a topic. Here’s a brief introduction.

Recently researchers at the University of Glasgow investigated the impacts of social interaction with stigmatized people in the learning space provided by the Human Library. The study, called Reducing stigma and discrimination: A case study of a ‘Human Library’ Reading event, includes extensive literature review where three types of strategies to dismantle stereotypes are introduced: educational, interpersonal and activism.

By employing the educational strategy, one attempts to reduce stigma by presenting facts. However, such an approach appeals mainly to the intellect and appears to be efficient when applied on adolescents. When working with adults, a more efficient strategy to dismantle stigma seems to be direct interpersonal contact with representatives of the stigmatized groups. This approach is at the center of the methodology used in the Human Library.

Organizing events to provide safe space for open discussions, this format creates learning experiences remembered for the rest of one’s life. At the Human Library, it is the combination of experience and new knowledge that give this approach such an impact.

For more information about the entire movement, see here. Over the last 24 years, the Human Library has hosted events virtually and in libraries, museums, festivals, conferences, schools, universities and for the private sector, in over 85 countries. They are currently opening libraries in Switzerland, and are looking for volunteers to help.

Aarhus U: Culture, Society & History in the Spanish-speaking World (Denmark)

“JobAssistant Professor of Culture, Society and History in the Spanish-speaking World, Department of German and Romance Languages,  Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 2 January 2025.

The School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for the position of assistant professor of culture, society and history in the Spanish-speaking world based at the Department of German and Romance Languages. The assistant professorship is a full-time, three-year fixed-term position, and subject to appropriate funding, there will be an opportunity to apply for a subsequent associate professorship. The position begins on 1 August 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Department of German and Romance Languages has a significant international research and teaching profile in the study of the language, literature and history of and social conditions in Germany, the Francophone countries, Spain and the Spanish American countries. They are looking for applicants who are specialised in contemporary Spanish and/or Latin American cultural studies and have experience in research related to different cultural media and artefacts (visual and plastic arts, social media, performance and literature etc). Experience from international research networks will be considered an advantage. In sum, they are looking for an innovative and dedicated applicant who will strengthen the research and teaching profiles of the department nationally and internationally as well as contributing to Aarhus University’s core activities in the areas of research, teaching and supervision, talent development and knowledge exchange.

AIAS-AUFF Fellowships (Denmark)

FellowshipsAIAS-AUFF Fellowships, Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 5 November 2024.

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) is pleased to announce up to 10 AIAS-AUFF Fellowships. The AIAS-AUFF Junior and Senior Fellowships are available for curiosity-driven, talented researchers from all over the world and within all research disciplines. Junior fellowships last for 23 months, senior fellowships for 11 month, commencing on 1 September 2025.

The call is open to curiosity-driven researchers and welcomes applications from researchers:

  • From all research disciplines of any nationality
  • Who comply with a mobility demand as applicants must not have resided or carried out their main work activity in Denmark for more than 12 months in the two years immediately prior to the deadline of the call.
  • With a career experience of 2-10 years after completion of their PhD (23 months junior fellowships)
  • With a career experience of 11+ years after completion of their PhD (11 months senior fellowships)

U Southern Denmark: PHD Scholarships in Political Science (Denmark)

“Studentships“3-4 Ph.D. Scholarhips in Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Deadline: 15 October 2024.

The Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark invites applications for 3 to 4 PhD scholarships within the research areas political science, public administration, international and regional politics, welfare studies or journalism studies as of January 1, 2025, or as agreed.

As a PhD student, you will be affiliated with one of the department’s three research sections: Public Administration, Welfare and Politics (PAWP), International and Regional Politics (IRP), or Journalism (JOUR). For more information about the department organization, strategy, research, and teaching, please visit the website.

The Public Administration, Welfare and Politics research section is comprised of the two research fields public administration and welfare studies. The scholars focus on various research areas within public management and administration, comparative welfare studies and social policy as well as comparative politics and political economy. The section also provides high-quality, research-based teaching and supervision in the political science study program and the two professional master study programs in public management, and they disseminate research-based knowledge to key stakeholders.

The International and Regional Politics research section consists of the Center for War Studies, the Centre for Border Region Studies, and the Danish Centre for Rural Research. They conduct research on different areas such as contemporary security issues, the changing characteristics of war and the relationship between war and peace; European border regions in the past and present; as well as understanding and improving life in rural areas.

The Journalism research section, consisting of the Centre for Journalism, is centered around two joined research networks; one is focused on rhetoric and journalistic usage of language, the other on social, societal, and political aspects of journalism. The Centre for Journalism offers both bachelor and graduate degrees in journalism, short-term, mid-career courses for journalists, and trains doctoral students.

CFP 10th Explorations in Ethnography Language and Communication (Denmark)

Conferences

Call for papers: 10th Explorations in Ethnography Language and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-19 August 2025. Deadline: 18 November 2024. Deadline extended to 18 January 2025.

At the 10th Anniversary EELC conference, organizers invite scholars working at the interface between linguistics and ethnography to interrogate and explore the affordances and challenges in today’s academic landscape. Linguistic ethnographers, as other human and social scientists, contribute to the understanding of important and difficult societal developments such as AI, digital technology, political instabilities and war, climate change and increasing demographic diversity. The EELC10 will be an occasion to take stock of the present research and the future potentials.

The plenary speakers all work with pertinent societal questions:
Charles Briggs (US) continues to advance our understanding of e.g. inequality, health, and the politics of knowledge.
Adrienne Lo (US) interrogates diversity, racialization and ideologies of multilingualism.
Caroline Tagg (UK) uncovers how language, digital technologies and digital
communication practices are deeply embedded into individuals’ wider social, economic, and political lives.
Line Møller Daugaard (DK) illuminates the challenges and possibilities of cultural diversity and multilingualism in education.

Aarhus U: American History with Global Focus (Denmark)

“JobAssistant/Associate Professor of American History with a Global Focus, Department of English,  Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 2 August 2024.

The School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for the position of either tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor of American history with a global focus based at the Department of English. The tenure-track assistant professorship begins with a full-time, five-year appointment as an assistant professor with a view to permanent employment as a tenured associate professor. The associate professorship is full time and tenured.

They are looking for an applicant with a specialisation in the history of the United States of America or a closely related field in American studies. Candidates with an interdisciplinary orientation towards one or more areas that bridge the humanities and social sciences (such as cultural studies or gender studies) are particularly welcome to apply. They envision a colleague concerned not only with American history, society, politics and culture but also with the processes whereby societies and cultures interact and influence each other. Individuals able to contribute to the development of students’ knowledge, skills and competences in subjects related to interculturality (such as migration and transnational identities) are encouraged to apply.