desigualdades.net is an interdisciplinary, international, and multi-institutional research network on social inequalities in Latin America.

Its aim is to promote a paradigmatic shift by systematically addressing the relevance of transregional entanglements for phenomena of social inequalities.

For reaching this aim desigualdades.net offers scholarship for Post Doc and  short-term research stays for advanced doctoral students. It is hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin where the research community of professors, researchers and fellows provides an excellent environment for the network.

The network is interested in research inputs from advanced doctoral students who work on their doctorate in economics, law, geography, history, social and political sciences, or a related field, and focus on social inequalities in Latin America from a transregional perspective.

Scholarship holders are selected on the basis of the relevance of their proposed projects to the research foci of desigualdades.net, their research experience in Latin America and their research accomplishments and potential.

desigualdades.net, hosted in a Villa at the Campus of Freie Universität Berlin, provides excellent research facilities, and organizes multidisciplinary research workshops and discussions on different aspects of social inequalities in the age of globalisation. Doctoral students will be actively involved in the organization of the network activities. desiguALdades.net gives doctoral students the possibility to build up interdisciplinary, international networks with the fellow doctoral students, postdocs, visiting scholars and Principal Investigators of the network. Doctoral students are expected to actively participate in the academic program organised by desiguAldades.net, such as the weekly colloquia, the yearly workshops of the respective Research Dimensions, the yearly Summer Schools and the yearly network conferences.

Call for Applications:

Minimum requirements:

* an outstanding academic degree in social sciences (MA, MSc or equivalent)
* research proposal that contributes directly to the research concept of the network
* excellent command of both English and Spanish/Portuguese
* research background in Latin America
* enrollment as a student in a PhD Program for at least one semester

Required documents:

* letter of motivation (max. 400 words in English or Spanish)
* research proposal including detailed working plan, time table, expected output and
* selected bibliography (max. 3,000 words in English or Spanish)
* CV (in English or Spanish)
* up to two published or unpublished papers related to the research concept in English,
* Spanish, Portuguese, German, or French
* letter of recommendation from the PhD supervisor (in English or Spanish)
* copies of undergraduate and postgraduate degree documents and certificates
* language certificates

Rationale of the short term scholarship:

* In the frame of a short-term research stay, advanced doctoral students shouldproduce a paper which contributes directly to the research concept of the network.This could be a publication or a specific chapter of their dissertation. They are expected to take an active part in the program and in the academic activities ofdesiguALdades.net.

* The scholarship is max. € 1,300 per month.
* The scholarship has to be started the earliest September 15 and the latest November 1, 2010)

The application deadline is August 1, 2010. Please apply online and send the documents as one single PDF-file to:

Executive Board of desiguALdades.net
Marianne Braig, Sérgio Costa and Barbara Göbel
Zentralinstitut Lateinamerika Institut
Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56
D-14197 Berlin
Germany

E-Mail: contacto@desiguALdades.net

For further information please contact:
Anna Spiegel
Tel. +49 (0)30 838 58544

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