Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the ChangingEmployment Initial Training Network
20/07/2014
The Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg is searching for an Experienced Researcher to be employed for 21 months to undertake a programme of research within Theme 3: Employee Wellbeing and Work Life Quality.
The person appointed will carry out research on the specific project title "Work-life quality and the flexicurity of employment in multinational companies: a comparative company-based approach in Europe".
The main objectives of this post are:
- To take co-responsibility for the project management of Theme 3, and co-supervision of ESRs;
- To liaise with the CE coordinator on the coordination of the three themes including occasional visits to the CE coordinator Professor Paul Stewart at Strathclyde.
- To collect information for a cross-country overview of how flexicurity arrangements, especially for agency workers relate to national contexts;
- To assist in the management and maintenance of the ChangingEmployment website;
- To assist in organisation of Annual Colloquia in Strathclyde and Brussels;
- To edited a book on flexicurity arrangements, especially for agency workers relate to national contexts;
- To submit article on flexicurity arrangements (in e.g. Work, Employment and Society);
- To supervise two student examination papers;
- To participate in seminars at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg;
- To assist professors at the department of Sociology and Work Science, Gothenburg University to organise and complete research proposals.
Closing date for applications is 1 September 2014 with a start of 1 January 2015.