2 Postdoc positions (focus Canada and focus Japan) in the SNSF Starting Grant Project “Provisional Futures: Migrants as wanted workers, yet temporary residents” — Universität Zürich
NuovoCHF 73'500 - 111'500
Universität Zürich · Ticino (TI)
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- full-time
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SalarioCHF 73'500 - 111'500
Panoramica
The University of Zurich, Switzerland's largest university, offers a range of attractive positions in various subject areas and professional fields.
With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional apprenticeship streams the University offers an inspiring working environment on cutting-edge research and top-class education.
Put your talent and skills to work with us.
- The University of Zurich, Switzerland's largest university, offers a range of attractive positions in various subject areas and professional fields.
- With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional apprenticeship streams the University offers an inspiring working environment on cutting-edge research and top-class education.
- This allows them to take over greater responsibilities over time and develop mentoring and leadership skills.
- Compensation: The salary is based on rates set by the Swiss National Science Foundation: Annex_XII_Ausfuehrungsreglement_Beitragsreglement_E.pdf Your tasks Independent:
- Our employees benefit from a wide range of attractive offers.
- Find out more: https://www.uzh.ch/de/explore/work.html.
Responsabilità principali
- This allows them to take over greater responsibilities over time and develop mentoring and leadership skills.
- Compensation: The salary is based on rates set by the Swiss National Science Foundation: Annex_XII_Ausfuehrungsreglement_Beitragsreglement_E.pdf Your tasks Independent:
- Design and carry out your own work package.
- Conduct extended fieldwork in Canada/Japan.
- Publications in migration studies and disciplinary journals. Collaborative:
- Contribute to joint theory-building at the intersection of migration studies, research on socio-cultural diversification and theorizations of future work.
- Collaborate within an ambitious, international, and interdisciplinary research team.
- Serve as co-guest-editor for a Special Issue in a major journal in the field.
- Co-organize a stakeholder workshop in the country of your expertise.
- Informal mentorship of the PhD student and the Research Assistant. Anforderungen:
Cosa offre l’azienda
- Our employees benefit from a wide range of attractive offers.
- Find out more: https://www.uzh.ch/de/explore/work.html.
- The two postdocs are expected to provide guidance to the research assistant and the PhD researcher in the team, and benefit from free trainings and courses offered at UZH.
Azienda e contesto
- This will include in-depth interviews with migrant workers, ethnographic observations at their workplaces and socializing activities, as well as stakeholder interviews with employers, policy makers, representatives of unions, and of migrant support organizations.
- The position is based at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich and requires residency in Switzerland.
- Data will be collected over two extended periods of field research in Canada / Japan, where the postdoc will be hosted by the overseas collaborating institutions, the Global Migration Institute, University of Toronto, Canada and the Institute of Asian Migrations, Waseda University, Japan, respectively.
- This will allow the postdoc to broaden their academic networks and produce both single-authored articles and collaborative research outputs and thereby establish their own independent research profile.
- The team collaborates on project preparation and analysis as well as co-authorship.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and event coordination skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and timelines. The following are considered assets:
- Experience with academic management, scientific outreach and creative methods.
- Knowledge of the migratory landscape in IT, health care and construction in Canada or Japan.
- Training and experience in comparative research.
Dettagli ulteriori
- Find out more about UZH as an employer!
- Compensation: The salary is based on rates set by the Swiss National Science Foundation: Annex_XII_Ausfuehrungsreglement_Beitragsreglement_E.pdf
- Publications in migration studies and disciplinary journals.
- Informal mentorship of the PhD student and the Research Assistant.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and timelines. The following are considered assets:
Note e contenuto originale
- Your tasks
- Independent:
- Collaborative:
- Anforderungen:
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and timelines.
- The following are considered assets:
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