Tag: Denmark

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.

Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies: Visiting Fellowships 2025-26 (Denmark)

FellowshipsVisiting Fellowships for researchers on sabbaticals, Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 1 May 2025 for fall 2025; 1 November 2025 for spring 2026.

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University offers a number of visiting fellowships to outstanding researchers from abroad who are looking for an opportunity to engage in the international and interdisciplinary research community of AIAS and to collaborate with the research environments at Aarhus University (AU). Visiting fellows will have their daily office space at AIAS, and will have the opportunity to participate in the activities at AIAS and at the relevant research environments at AU. AIAS offers optimal office facilities, and a thriving international and interdisciplinary community with joint social and academic activities.

Applicants must have a PhD and a minimum of two years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the application deadline. AIAS Visiting Fellowships are without salary, and it is therefore expected that successful applicants will bring their salary with them from their home institution. Applicants should have active collaborations with Aarhus University and have established contact with a researcher or research community at Aarhus University. An open-minded approach and a curiosity to other academic disciplines than your own is a great advantage.

U Aarhus: Postdoc in 2nd Language Learning in Danish Social & Healthcare Education (Denmark)

Postdocs
Postdoc in Second Language Learning in Danish Social and Healthcare Education, Department of Educational Anthropology and Psychology, University of Aarhus, Emdrup Campus, Denmark. Deadline: 10 June 2024.

The research project Sociolinguistic Barriers and Potentials among Second Language Learners in Danish Social and Healthcare Education explores social and linguistic barriers and potentials among second language learners in Danish social and healthcare education (‘SOSU-hjælperuddannelsen’ and ‘SOSU-assistentuddannelsen’), an educational field which has attracted increasing political attention due to a drastic projected shortfall in healthcare personnel in coming years and high dropout rates. More than 30% of SOSU students are assumed to have Danish as a second language, representing more than 109 different nationalities and a vast array of linguistic repertoires.

The project focuses on the linguistic practices of students with Danish as a second language, the linguistic barriers and demands associated with different parts of their healthcare training, and how students respond to these barriers and demands in everyday interaction, drawing on linguistic and sociocultural registers of healthcare, education and care. The SOSU programme includes a variety of educational arenas for linguistic minority students, including healthcare training, language lessons and internships across nursing homes, hospital wards and private homes, where students are expected to interact with teachers, supervisors and co-students along with patients, elderly citizens, relatives and various kinds of healthcare personnel. An in-depth linguistic-ethnographic approach is applied, including extensive digital sound recordings, qualitative interviews and participant observation, to explore students’ linguistic practices, barriers and potentials, along with the various linguistic skills and sociocultural registers associated with becoming a ‘good SOSU worker’ across different institutional arenas.

Human Library Reading Garden (Denmark)

Applied ICD

Human Library Reading Garden in Copenhagen, Human Library Organization, Copenhagen, Denmark. Grand opening: 28 April 2024; then every Sunday until 13 October 2024.

Concept: “The Human Library® creates a safe space for dialogue where topics are discussed openly between our human books and their readers. All of our human books are volunteers with personal experience with their topic. The Human Library® is a place where difficult questions are expected, appreciated and answered.”

Details: “Very similar to your public library only we have real people on loan as an open book for you. Offering insights and honest conversations about their life and experience. If you arrive at the Human Library Reading Garden in the opening hours (Sundays 12-4pm) you will see a black librarian’s desk and a board with a list of topics available to readers. If the topic is listed in English, then it is available to readers in English. Consult the librarian to get an introduction and register for your library card. At this time you also agree to respect and observe our “Rules for Readers.” Now you can make your choice from what is available. The librarian is there to help guide you and once you have made your choice. The librarian will bring out the book for you and make introductions.

If you are in a group, then we recommend that you share a book. A maximum of five readers can take part in a group reading. During the season we are open on Sundays for the public. While our weekdays are reserved for visits from educational institutions and other publishing partners. Most of our topics are available in both Danish and English. A few are also available in Arabic, French, German, Italian and Spanish. You may borrow as many books as you like, but only one at a time.”

This is one human library of many; 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.

Conducive Space for Peace: Senior Programme Manager (Denmark but Home Based)

“JobSenior Programme Manager (Learning, Capacity Strengthening and Facilitation), Conducive Space for Peace, Home based with travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, and any other location as required by the tasks. Deadline: 7 January 2024.

Conducive Space for Peace (CSP) has revised its strategy for the period 2024-2026 and is looking to expand its team as part of implementing the new strategy. CSP is recruiting a new senior staff member to support our work in changing the international peacebuilding and development system to better enabling local leadership and equitable partnerships. Senior Programme Manager will play a key role in implementing CSP’s Learning framework, supporting the delivery of workshops, convenings and other learning events online and in-person with INGOs, private foundations, bilateral donors and local civil society actors.

The new staff member will refer to the Co-Director on Organisational Leadership and will work closely with the rest of the team. As CSP is a non-hierarchical organisation everyone collaborates with one another to deliver on the mandate of CSP and tasks with reference to competencies rather than position and title.

CSP is an INGO registered in Denmark specialising in facilitating transformation in the peacebuilding system to enable greater local leadership for more equitable, dignified, and sustainable peace. CSP works with an extensive global network of change agents and partners across the peacebuilding, development and humanitarian sectors, convening, accompanying, and developing analysis for systems change globally and in specific country contexts.

Copenhagen Winter School in Sociolinguistics 2024 (Denmark)

Study Abroad

Copenhagen Winter School in Sociolinguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 11-15 March 2024. Deadline: 1 December 2023.

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 9:00 to 17:00 from the 11th to the 15th of March 2024 at the University of Copenhagen.

Invited guest teachers: David Britain (Universität Bern), Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College London), David Karlander (Uppsala University and The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study); Local teachers: Andreas Candefors Stæhr, Pia Quist, Janus Spindler Møller, and Malene Monka (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 instructors 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.

All participants should prepare a 20-minute presentation of their project with a special focus on themes that they would like to have discussed as part of the course. This could be for instance theoretical or methodological issues, or it could be ongoing analyses that would benefit from a discussion. The idea is for all participants to get an opportunity to have their projects discussed, and to get comments from both teachers and other participants.

U Copenhagen: Postdoctoral Researchers in Asian Studies (Denmark)

Postdocs
Multiple postdoctoral positions in Asian Studies, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.  Deadline: 31 July 2022.

The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites candidates for a number of postdoctoral positions in Asian Studies. Wanted are early career scholars researching on modern and contemporary East and Southeast Asia, who could contribute to work in one or more of the following areas:

  • Climate and Sustainability
  • Digitalization
  • Gender Equality and Diversity
  • Democracy and Human Rights
  • Asia-Nordic Relations
  • The Rise of China
  • Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific
  • Youth Politics and the Politics of Protest

    Successful candidates will either work on their own projects or on collaborative research projects with NIAS and University of Copenhagen colleagues. The position is from 1 September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter and until 31 December 2023.