Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant in Peace, Institutional Design and Ethnicity in Africa, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline: 29 February 2024.
As a graduate teaching & research assistant, you are part of the Academic Assistant Staff (Dutch: Assisterend Academisch Personeel, AAP). You spend at least 50% of your working time preparing a PhD thesis in development studies. In addition, you play an assisting role in teaching, research and service-delivery activities.
PhD research
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You work on the preparation and defence of a PhD thesis in Development Studies – in English, French or Dutch – on a subject related to peace, institutional design and ethnicity in Africa. Your PhD research is situated at the national level of state institutions, possibly with linkages to the local sub-state and the intergovernmental regional level (African Union, RECs). You investigate how, as a conflict prevention or conflict resolution strategy, ethnic diversity and segmentation is institutionally managed through constitutional design or other governance instruments. You may decide to focus on one country or engage in a comparative analysis. Your PhD contributes to the scholarly literature and policy on nation-building, state-building and peacebuilding in Africa.
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You organise your own PhD research and report on your progress regularly.
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You participate in a doctoral training programme, for instance by participating in courses offered by the Antwerp Doctoral School and/or CERES doctoral school in order to enhance your doctoral research skills.
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You present the findings of your PhD research at academic conferences and you publish in scientific publications (among which IOB’s own publication outlets). You also communicate your findings to non-scientific audiences (among which IOB’s own Analysis and Policy Briefs).
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You contribute to the research related activities organized by the community of IOB PhD students.
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