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==Pre-call for PhD positions: MARKETS== | |||
'''This is a pre-call. An official call will be launched once the contract with the European Commission is signed. The call will be published by the end of February on the [https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/ Euraxess website].''' | |||
Applications for 15 PhD positions ('''deadline 15 March 2020''') will soon open in project '''MARKETS: Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, The Caucasus and Central Asia.''' | |||
Coordinated by Dublin City University, MARKETS benefits from participation of University College London, Catholic University in Louvain, Forschungstelle Osteuropa Bremen, University of Helsinki, Center for Social Sciences and Tallinn Technical University. | |||
It is a business and policy oriented PhD training equipping 15 fellows with theoretical knowledge, analytical skills and complementary training to understand and deal with practical and business problems in the region. Our goal is to compare countries that had fully opened to foreign investors by the early 2000s – '''Estonia, Latvia''' (now EU members), '''Georgia''' (considered by many as an example of best practice in reforms), and '''Kyrgyzstan''' (where markets are stable but no major economic leap is expected in the next immediate future) – with what have been identified as significant prospective post-USSR markets for the next ten years - '''Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan''' (all of which have shown a more concrete desire for economic dialogue in the past three years), Russia (its eastern region and, in particular, '''Siberia''', which has remained largely unexplored by EU companies), and '''Azerbaijan''', a country that has finally started interacting in more concrete terms with the EU. | |||
Starting from an individual research and training path, that will be tailored to each PhD student career aspirations, MARKETS researchers will engage in a collective team-exercise to: | |||
*construct a map of business environments in the region. To do this, we will measure and assess currently available information against informal business practices, business cultures and foreign investment sentiments (with regard to relationships with the authorities, other businesses, formal/informal lobby groups and society) of companies operating in each target country; | |||
*create, develop and work to improve the sustainability of training programmes for future analysts to equip them with a deep practical understanding of the region, embedded in the newest theoretical and methodological approaches. | |||
Our goal is to translate scientific results into valuable strategic intelligence, guidelines and recommendations that can mitigate the difficulties European entrepreneurs often face when trying to enter and succeed in the region. | |||
'''UCL will have 2 open PhD positions, supervised by Alena Ledeneva:''' | |||
*Measuring functional ambivalence of informal practices: supportive vs subversive roles in integration in post-USSR spaces; and | |||
*Informal governance: where informality stops and corruption begins. | |||
'''Practical details''' | |||
Each selected candidate will be enrolled into a PhD programme, be seconded to the target region for data collection. They will subsequently be seconded to a non-academic partner to gain a hands-on work experience on how research skills can be used beyond academia for the benefit of the governmental, private or international development sector. | |||
The training is intensive and demanding but it is also what we call a “career accelerator”. Each fellow will be offered first class working conditions, salary, mobility allowance, family allowance and networking opportunities with more than 20 organizations worldwide. | |||
Financial conditions and background documents are available here and change country by country according to EC/REA rules that you can find [https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/resources/document-libraries/guide-applicants-rise-2019_en here]. | |||
==CFP: Thirty Years of Transition – The Ljubo Sirc Centenary Conference== | ==CFP: Thirty Years of Transition – The Ljubo Sirc Centenary Conference== | ||