G3S Start-up Scholarships at University of Basel in Switzerland, 2015

Start-up Scholarships of the Graduate School of Social Sciences (G3S), University of Basel

Early stage support allows graduates to develop their project and raise subsequent funding

Funding Period: April 1st, 2015 - March 30th, 2016
Submission Deadline: Nobember 15th, 2014
We are advertising five start-up grants (25’000 CHF / 12 months each) for the next academic year, beginning in Ferbruary 2015. The scholarships are meant to support graduates in the early stages of their PhD, during which they will develop research proposals for submission to a funding body such as the Swiss National Science Foundation.
 
Doctoral students in the G3S should have a background in a discipline of the Department of Social Science (e.g. anthropology, cultural anthropology, educational sciences, middle eastern studies, political science, sociology, see also: g3s.unibas.ch). They may likewise be trained in interdisciplinary fields also represented at G3S:

• Centre for African Studies
  
• PhD Program Gender Studies
  
• MUBIT: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
  
• PhD Program Science of Religion
  
• International Graduate School North-South
  
• Sustainability Research
  
• PhD Programs Cultural Anthropology
  
  

The scholarships are directed at students holding a Master’s degree or a “Licence/Lizentiat” in one of the G3S fields. Dissertation projects are supervised by faculty members of the Department of Social Sciences. We therefore encourage applicants to contact potential supervisors concurrently to their application for a G3S-scholarship for preparatory project counsel. The working languages of the school are English and German. Candidates should be highly motivated to carry out an independent research project in an interdisciplinary environment and show a vivid interest in current debates of the social sciences.
Deadline for submissions: November 15^th, 2014
Applications (English or German) may be submitted via email or in paper form to:
Dr. Günter Schmidt, Coordinator of G3S
Petersgraben 27
CH-4051 Basel
guenter.schmidt-at-unibas.ch
The following documents must be included:

• Letter of motivation
  
• Curriculum Vitae (with a list of publications if applicable)
  
• Draft of the PhD project (approx. 3 pages)
  
• 1-2 writing samples (at least one of which was submitted as an academic qualification requirement)
  
• Academic transcript or excerpt of the study registry
  

The start-up grants will be transferred to successful candidates in two installments of CHF 12’500 each, one in April 2015 and the second one in October 2015 after evaluation of the candidates’ activities during the first six months.  
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