PhDStudies of Cultures: Border Studies (Junior Research Fellow)
Õppetöö asukoht | Eesti, Tallinn |
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Õppetase | Doctoral, full-time |
Õppekeel | inglise |
Kraad / diplom / tunnistus | PhD |
Kandideerimistasu | 100 € one-time |
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Sisseastumisnõuded | Postgraduate diploma (or higher) • A Junior Research Fellow is a student and an employee of the university at the same time. The exact workload and nominal study time depends on Individual Study and Research Plan and can be from 4 to 8 years. The minimum salary by the workload 1,0 is 1500 euros per month (in the academic year 2022/2023). • A Doctoral Student has a status of a student. The nominal study time depends from Individual Study and Research Plan and can be from 4 to 8 years. A Doctoral Student is not entitled to receive a Doctoral Allowance nor the TLU Doctoral scholarship. Please note that a Doctoral Student has no Health Insurance. Doctoral level (PhD) applicants must have a Master’s degree or corresponding qualifications and experience. At least 60% of the possible maximum results from your Bachelor’s as well as Master’s studies is expected in order to qualify for studies in Tallinn University. Please see a list of required documents here. For country-specific requirements please see here. Step-by-step application guides can be found here. We advise you to apply as soon as possible so that the admission specialists can give you feedback before the application deadline and a chance for you to update your application, if necessary. Tallinn University does not accept applications submitted by third parties. Applicants must complete and sign the application form themselves. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: inglise / eesti. You must take the original entry qualification documents along with you when you finally go to the university. All required documents must be uploaded with the application by the application deadline. Applicants who have successfully passed their entrance exam, may be asked to send their educational documents to Tallinn University by post. Specific instructions will be given by the admission specialists to each applicant individually. Please do not send any documents by post until you have personally been asked to do so. Whether any documents are required by post can also be determined by examining Tallinn University’s country-specific requirements. which may state, for example, that the applicant’s Transcript of Records must be sent to Tallinn University by the awarding institution or that a document needs to be certified in a particular way. |
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Keelenõuded | inglise • IELTS (International English Language Testing System) academic: 7.0 Tallinn University only accepts English language test scores which have been taken no more than 2 years before the beginning of studies. More information about language proficiency requirements is available at |
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Muud nõuded | One full-time fully funded Ph.D. position in the interdisciplinary field of border studies. The student is expected to engage in research on a topic related to territorial, institutional, social, cultural or virtual (digital) bordering, boundaries, territorial borderlands, or borderscapes in the wider sense. Empirical research focus on mainland Asian borderlands, various bordering practices in or by China, or digital bordering, are preferred but all qualified candidates will be considered. The PhD position is attached to a project “Advancing Trans-Regional Border Studies” that seeks to combine the mainstream, Anglo-American dominated understandings in border studies and the thriving borderland research in Asia, to create trans-regional synergies and advance a multi-layered approach to understanding borders and bordering, and significantly, communicate this to the public, practitioners and policy-makers. The project provides funds and opportunities for doctoral students’ self-development such as workshops, summer school in Bishkek, research stays and collaboration at the two partner universities, the University of Eastern Finland and University of Amsterdam. Candidates are required to have an excellent command of the English language. The admitted candidate will be enrolled to the PhD programme in Studies of Cultures. Before the final submission on the application database the candidates are recommended to submit the following documents for preview. The documents are to be sent to maris.peters@tlu.ee: 1) A research proposal accepted by the prospective supervisor (length approx. 3 pages / 1500 words without the list of sources), which contains at least the following components: The project candidates should contact the project supervisor with their research proposal. 2) A one page description of candidate’s teaching experience so far and a vision of the possible teaching assignments to be conducted during the PhD studies at Tallinn University. It is highly recommended to find, in collaboration with the prospective supervisor, some links with the present courses and study programmes taught at Tallinn University. 3) CV (including a list of candidate’s publications and information on IT skills) During the application period the candidates should upload into DreamApply: 1) The research proposal that has been expanded and enhanced in cooperation with the prospective supervisor (length approx. 5 pages / 2500 words without the list of sources), which contains at least the following components: If the research contains fieldwork: the description of the scope, length, and financing (both the projected budget and sources of financing). |
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