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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:42:31 +0100
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Subject: [bms-rc33] Call - Deadline Today,
     100% Ph.D. Posts in LIVES (Swiss SNSF)

This arrived a bit late, but it can be worth trying.

Deadline: TODAY, 11 November 2011


The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES announces a. 100%
Doctoral student position in social sciences.
http://www.telejob.ethz.ch/advertisement/pdf/19193

National Centre of Competence in Research “LIVES – Overcoming vulnerability:
life course perspectives”

How do people deal with a changing world? Synonymous as it may be with
lengthening of the life span and increase in material comfort, the development
of post-industrial society is also a source of new hazards restricting the
self-fulfilment of many people. Confronted with change in family, religious
identities, made insecure by the major shifts of economic activity in a
globalised world, there are many who feel or who actually find themselves in a
situation of vulnerability. In the course of their lives many people are
exposed to crisis situations, either because they lack key resources or because
their living conditions deteriorate drastically. These processes cause human
suffering and social exclusion, and they come with considerable financial
costs.

Thus according to Switzerland’s Ministry of the Economy, stress currently
affects 82% of the nation’s people, 12% of them severely. The cost of this is
estimated at about 8 billion francs, or 2.3% of GDP.

As a result, investigating the mechanisms which allow some individuals to adapt
better than others to the development of society is becoming a priority for
better understanding the phenomenon of vulnerability and the means of
overcoming it.

Following a call for proposals and the selection made by the Swiss National
Science Foundation (SNSF), the federal Ministry of the Interior has declared
the project “LIVES – overcoming vulnerability: life course perspectives” a
National Centre of Competence in Research.

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Doctoral Programme
Objectives et organisation

NCCR LIVES is developing a doctoral programme intended in the first instance for
doctoral students in social science and psychology who include life course
issues in their work. The doctoral programme aims to provide courses of study
leading to high-quality doctorates within a reasonable period of time and to
facilitate the professional integration of doctoral students in academic and
other careers. The LIVES doctoral programme is organised over a period of three
academic years, due to the three to four modules each year. It includes three
types of modules:

     methods and concepts in life course analysis;
     scientific research skills;
     practice in research.

Get in contact with the direction of the doctoral programme
([log in to unmask]) Programme 2010-2011:

     Module 1 — Theoretical skills “On LIVES, vulnerability and the life course”
     Module 2 — Methodological skills “Data management and analysis”
     Module 3 — Changing Structures and Uncertainty in Individual Life Courses

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