PhD position in the research project “The Japan Transnational Education and Career Panel Study (JTEPS): International Student Mobility and its Consequences” 80 %
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Chair in Social Science of Japan
Start of employment 1 August 2025 or upon agreement
We seek a PhD candidate with a strong interest in the impact of international student mobility in the early life-course in Japan and in qualitative social science research (additional quantitative expertise is advantageous). The goal of the JTEPS project is to contribute to our understanding of current Japan in Japanese studies and to advance the field of international student mobility in educational sociology through a mixed-method panel study. To address major methodical shortcomings and conceptual gaps of past surveys, quantitative and qualitative data on the educational and professional life courses of residents of Japan in their early 20s are collected over a period of three years (2025-2027) for individuals with and without university education.
The PhD position includes the following responsibilities:
• Collaborating in the development and implementation of the research project with the other team members
• Developing and realizing qualitative PhD project based on your own research interests within the joint project
Your profile
• Excellent MA in social science research on Japan
• Solid training in qualitative methods
• Very good knowledge of Japanese and English
• Experience in qualitative social science research and training in quantitative methods advantageous, but not a requirement
We offer:
• Employment (80 %) until end of January 2029
• Salary in accordance with SNSF guidelines (gross annual salary starting at approximately 50,000 CHF)
• Opportunity to develop and realize your own qualitative PhD research project in cooperation and coordination with quantitative survey
• Attractive funding for your qualitative fieldwork in Japan
• Cooperative and stimulating work environment with good infrastructure in a small and highly motivated team
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2025
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For further information, please contact David Chiavacci (david.chiavacci@uzh.ch).
2 PhD Candidates for the project “Climate Citizenship” (4 years, full time)
Leiden University’s Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology welcomes applications for PhD candidates for the research project “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change,” funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC-StG).
Climate Citizenship explores how adapting environments to climate change through new forms of nature-based infrastructure reshapes people’s relationships with each other and the state. Examples range from green roofs and vertical gardens to urban parks, flood plains and more ambitious efforts to transform landscapes. The project treats these infrastructures as social and political as well as environmental experiments. It asks: when and who do they stimulate behavioural change, create new alliances between stakeholders, or transform the division of rights and responsibilities within a society?
As a PhD candidate, you will conduct ethnographic research on these questions in either the Louisiana Delta (the United States) or the Tokyo Bay area (Japan). You will employ an “ecographic” research design, combining ethnographic methods with those from the ecological sciences in order to track how new forms of climate adaptation alter both environment and society. Your primary supervisor will be the project’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Andrew Littlejohn.
For more information, please see the advert: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2025/q1/15477-2-phd-candidates-for-the-project-climate-citizenship
The deadline is March 31.
If you have questions, please contact the PI at: a.l.littlejohn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
JSPS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (STANDARD)
Applicants:
Postdoctoral researchers, doctorate must not have been awarded more than 6 years ago as of April 1 of the fiscal year in which the fellowship begins.
All disciplines
Duration:
12 to 24 months
Further information on the programs can be found here:
https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/jsps-stipendium-postdoc.html
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Yours sincerely
Jutta Schulze
JSPS Bonn Office
Wissenschaftszentrum
Postfach 20 14 48, 53144 Bonn
Ahrstr. 58, 53175 Bonn
Tel.: +49 (0)228/375050 Fax: +49 (0)228/957777
