Scholarship / Financial aid: full financial coverage to up to three years
Date: three years
Deadline: 16 January 2012, 23:59
Open to: applicants with a Master degree
Announcement follows
A concerted research initiative focused on analysing the implications of regulatory efforts associated with different articulations of multilateral order, as they apply within and between models of national capitalisms, supranational governance dilemmas and global security concerns.
The CITRINE Joint Research Project will be coordinated and managed by the Department of Politics and International Studies (PaIS) at the University of Warwick. The Department boasts a thirty-four strong cohort of academic staff, each of whom should be considered available to undertake supervisory duties for GEM School Fellows. The research specialisms of PaIS staff members cohere around the three groupings which provide the Department with its collective research culture and its specific profile of research outputs. One such grouping is in International Political Economy (IPE); another is in International Politics and Security Studies (IPSS); and a third is in Public Policy and Comparative Political Systems (PPCPS). PaIS is also the home to three specialist research centres: the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR); the Centre for Studies in Democratisation (CSD); and the Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA). We welcome applicants to the CITRINE Joint Research Project who wish to undertake doctoral studies on topics related to any of these areas in which the Department has expertise. Given that we are a Department of Politics and International Studies you will fit best with us if your background is in those disciplines, but we are definitely open to the idea of supervising genuinely interdisciplinary PhDs on issues that are of interest to political scientists and/or international relations scholars.
Regulatory interests in the European Union and beyond are constantly being redefined under the twin pressures of globalisation and multilateralism. (1) The political economy of contemporary world order plays out against the backdrop of both a major global banking crisis, the real possibility of a fracture within the eurozone and the ever-present contestations that surround international trade politics. These are issues that have been studied in great detail and to widespread acclaim by members of our IPE Research Group. (2) The national and international security context of contemporary world order is situated against the backdrop of a permanently changing set of assumptions as new threats come to the fore and overlay historically-rooted social and political tensions, coupled with a new wave of democratisation enacted in recent months. These are areas in which the reputation of the Department is growing rapidly thanks to the work of members of the relatively new IPSS Research Group, often undertaken in conjunction with members of the CSD. (3) Public policy decisions are likely in the near future to become increasingly prone to challenge at a variety of spatial scales, as public spending cuts take hold across Europe and beyond. Here the members of the PPCPS Research Group continue to be at the forefront of scholarly debates through their high profile work. Every member of the Department, at one level or another, focuses their research on the significance of regulatory interests, whether that is in terms of theorising shifting forms of legitimacy within everyday politics or through assessing the relative efficacy of policy-making conducted domestically, regionally and/or globally.
BY THE DEADLINE APPLICANTS HAVE TO:
A – SUBMIT THEIR ONLINE APPLICATION VIA THE GEM WEBSITE
B – SEND IN, BY POST, A BOUND PAPER-COPY OF THEIR APPLICATION
Accordingly, as a first step, an applicant must complete the electronic registration. Upon completion, the applicant will receive a personalized electronic copy of all of the completed registration forms certifying the candidates electronic submission.
Finalizing the application process then implies printing out the electronic forms with an eye on compiling a paper-copy of the whole application file – incl. all necessary annexes.
The full set of paper-based components is to be bound as a single document and send in by registered mail to the GEM Central Executive Office in Brussels:
EMJD-GEM Central Executive Office
c/o Institut d’Etudes Européennes (ULB-CP172)
39, av. F.D. Roosevelt
B-1050 Brussels (BELGIUM)
INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWSHIPS
Thanks to the support of various funding institutions the GEM PhD School can sustain the development of its research and training agenda with the help of generous PhD Fellowships
First and foremost amongst these are the Erasmus Mundus Fellowships provided by the European which offer full financial coverage to up to three years. Consequently, besides its highly competitive research & training programme, the GEM PhD also offers various embedded funding options potentially interested parties can apply for.
Scholarship Components
Scholarships can include either one or several of the following components:
A TOTAL OR PARTIAL FEE WAIVER
A POSSIBLE TRAVEL & INSTALLATION GRANT
AN UNSPECIFIED ONE-SHOT GRANT
A MONTHLY INCOME (Either as a contractual fellowship or as a monthly stipend)
Website: http://www.erasmusmundus-gem.eu/applications/view/2
Email: [email protected]