The Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) opens a Call for one (1) Post-Doctoral Fellowship under the project COESO (Collaborative Engagement on Societal Issues), funded by the European Commission EC-H2020-SWAFS Program (Science with and for Society) – Grant Agreement 101006325.
PROJECT: COESO is a research project led by OpenEdition-EHESS and dedicated to the development of Citizen Science in the fields of Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH). COESO gathers 15 partners from 6 different European countries (France, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and Germany), including academic research centres, public and private foundations, SME and associations.
The COESO project purpose is to facilitate and support participatory research in SSH. COESO has a dual approach. On the one hand, it provides a framework for the development of pilot citizen science projects from different disciplines within the SSH (History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology) that involve artists, journalists, NGOs and local communities. On the other hand, it takes these collaborations as an object of study to help the development of a digital platform supporting their implementation.
Main research field: Anthropology
Admission requirements
General:
The call is open to candidates holding a PhD in Social Sciences and Humanities (Anthropology, History, Sociology, Geography, Urban Studies, and others), with the following requirements:
a) doctoral degree obtained in the three years previous to the date of the application;
b) no previous postdoctoral research fellowship with CRIA;
c) the total duration of postdoctoral fellowship can not exceed three years.
Specific:
- Research topics: urban studies; tourism; processes of patrimonialization and/or commodification of culture;
- Research experience with participatory methodologies (citizen science or social intervention);
- Master Portuguese and English languages (oral and written).
Preferential requirements:
- Capacity to link the ethnographic approach to the historical perspective;
- Research experience in international projects;
- Familiarity with digital humanities.
Full text of the call