Postdoctoral researcher for MADE ‘Migration as Development’ project

Location Amsterdam
Function types Postdoc positions
Scientific fields Behaviour and Society
Hours 38.0 hours per week
Salary € 3170 – € 3357
Education Doctorate
Job number 15-392
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About employer University of Amsterdam (UvA)
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Apply for this job before 12-11-2015.

Job description

The Department of Sociology and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)  are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on the ‘Migration as Development’ (MADE) project (2015-2020), for which Hein de Haas, Professor of Sociology at the UvA, has been awarded a €1.75 million Consolidator grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The MADE project aims to develop new approaches for studying the developmental drivers of human mobility in the modern industrial-capitalist era (the 19th and 20th centuries). MADE will involve quantitative tests of the developmental drivers of internal and international migration as well as mixed-methods case-studies to study the evolution of complex mobility systems in 6 countries around the world.

Working closely together with the other MADE team members, the postdoctoral researcher will conduct multivariate empirical tests of the effects of specific dimensions of social transformation and development (such as income levels, inequality, social security, education, infrastructure and technology, conflict and political freedoms) on internal and international migration. Data analysis will draw on existing datasets containing development indicators (such as WDI) and macro-level migration flow and migrant stock datasets, and in particularly the DEMIG datasets.

While the postdoctoral researcher will be full part of the MADE project team, her/his work will focus primarily on the quantitative tests. These quantitative tests should result in about 6 single-authored or co-authored publications. The quantitative papers will be preceded by a conceptual review paper. To ensure synergies between the quantitative and qualitative parts of the project, the aim is to involve the post-doc researcher in one of the mixed-method country studies. The post holder is also expected to contribute to teaching (0.3 fte), particularly through taking responsibility for teaching on one of the migration electives within the (Research) Masters Sociology, MA student supervision, and mentoring PhD students. 

Requirements

Tasks

  • Fully participate in MADE project activities in collaboration with other team members;
  • conduct quantitative analyses and publish about 6 (single and/or co-authored) working papers to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals;
  • contribute to write joint articles for publications with a focus to be defined in collaboration with the MADE team;
  • contribute to the drafting of MADE project reports, project updates and research briefings;
  • take responsibility for teaching modules and student supervision in the BA and MA sociology and general social sciences (0.3 fte).

Requirements

  • Fully participate in MADE project activities in collaboration with other team members;
  • conduct quantitative analyses and publish about 6 (single and/or co-authored) working papers to be submitted to peer-reviewed scientific journals;
  • contribute to write joint articles for publications with a focus to be defined in collaboration with the MADE team;
  • contribute to the drafting of MADE project reports, project updates and research briefings;
  • take responsibility for teaching modules and student supervision in the BA and MA sociology and general social sciences (0.3 fte).

Conditions of employment

The appointments will be for 1.0 fte (38 hours/week, of which 0.7 fte for the MADE project, and 0.3 fte for teaching) and will last for a period of 4 years (12 months plus a further 36 months contingent on a satisfactory performance during the first year). The position will start on 1 January 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The gross monthly salary will be €3,357 (scale 11.0) in the first year and will range to €3,710 (scale 11.3) in the fourth year; this is based on a full-time position of 38 hours per week, plus 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% end-of- year allowance, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.

Organisation

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

Department

Department of Sociology 

The Department of Sociology  is one of the departments in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG). Research and education are carried out by special institutes. The College of Social Sciences (CSS) and the Graduate School for the Social Sciences (GSSS) are responsible for the undergraduate and graduate teaching programmes in the social sciences. Research takes place under the aegis of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), a multidisciplinary research institute, the biggest one of its kind in the Netherlands and possibly in Europe. The broad scope and pluralism of our education and research programmes are inspired by and reflect a strong degree of internationalisation.

Additional information

For further information regarding the research project, please send an email to the principal investigator: