Dear all, Our department is keen to host fellows for this scheme in a variety of fields including (global) environmental politics and justice. If you are interested in spending a period of time at Sheffield, please see the details below. I'm not involved in the selection, but I'm happy to discuss this opportunity with potential applicants.
Best wishes, Hayley ****** *Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield * The Department of Politics is looking to host exceptional fellows in the framework of the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships scheme. The scheme enables eligible applicants to come to the University of Sheffield for a period from 12 to 24 months with the aims of undertaking world class research, career development, and knowledge transfer activities. Eligible researchers are - in possession of a doctoral degree or who have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience. - at the time of the deadline for submission (10 September 2015), have not resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the UK for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the deadline. You can find more details about the scheme here: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/doc/call/h2020/h2020-msca-if-2014/1600147-guide_for_applicants_if_2014_en.pdf The Department is among the foremost research departments for Politics and International Studies in the UK. The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 ranked us as the third highest-performing research department in the UK, as measured by the grade point average of our scores. Our community of researchers is diverse, with a wide range of methodologies and approaches to study, though with particular focus on the following areas: * *Governance and participation*, including research on political participation, social movements, civic engagement and citizenship, voting and elections, multiculturalism, international migration, European integration, the politics of the European Union, electoral quality and representation, the representation and participation of women and minority groups. * *Political theory and global justice*, including research on global justice and health inequalities, climate change and the global environment, human rights, bioethics, warfare, animal rights, democratic global governance, and international legal theory. * *Political economy*, including research on domestic and international political economy, economic growth, environmental sustainability, development, the global financial crisis and its legacy, European economic integration, the political economy of gender and inequality. * *International politics*, including research on global justice, global governance, international organisation, foreign policy, environmental politics, security studies, conflict analysis, peacekeeping and state-building. For more information, please see: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics. If you are interested, please send a full academic CV, a 1,000 word research project outline and a short cover letter outlining why you think a Marie Curie at Sheffield would boost your career to Professor Andrew Geddes ([email protected]) by 4 May 2015. Selection will be carried out by the end of May, and selected applicants will be appointed a mentor from the department, who will assist them in preparing the application to the European Commission for the 10 September 2015 deadline. -- Dr Hayley Stevenson Senior Lecturer Department of Politics University of Sheffield hayleystevenson.com *Recently published* *Democratizing Global Climate Governance* <http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/democratizing-global-climate-governance?format=HB> (with John S. Dryzek). *Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zp9f66p#>* *SPERI Comment: What does a sustainable economy look like? * <http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2015/03/03/sustainable-economy-like/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
