Fully Funded PhD in Arabic/Islamic Studies, Gender Studies, and Anthropology at Ghent University Ghent University in Belgium

Ghent University’s Centre for Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies (CAIMES) is recruiting for the ERC-funded project HAIR: Hair, Identity, Beauty, and the Self in Muslim Contexts: Emotional Landscapes and Changing Femininities Beyond the Veil . The call includes two PhD positions (subprojects on Egypt and Lebanon ) and one postdoctoral position (subproject on the United Arab Emirates ). The project examines the cultural, socio-religious, political, and emotional meanings of beauty and body po...

Ghent University is advertising a full-time postdoctoral researcher position in the Department of Languages and Cultures (LW21) within the ERC-funded project HAIR: Hair, Identity, Beauty, and the Self in Muslim Contexts: Emotional Landscapes and Changing Femininities Beyond the Veil . The subproject focuses on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is embedded in a wider comparative project on Muslim femininities across Egypt, Lebanon, and the UAE. The successful candidate will develop and lead an o...

PhD opportunity in Political Science in Belgium on the project Co-Designing Inclusive Political Representation . The position is hosted by Université catholique de Louvain and Vrije Universiteit Brussel , with work based in Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels . The project examines how political representation can be reimagined with people experiencing socio-economic precarity in Brussels. Research themes include democratic theory , qualitative longitudinal fieldwork , participatory co-design , commun...

Call for applications: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships for early-career researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences . This is a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship hosted by The British Academy and undertaken at a UK university or approved research institution . The scheme is designed for scholars who want to develop an independent, high-impact, publishable research project while building teaching experience and academic networks in the UK. Research areas: humanities and social sciences, w...

Applications are open for Postdoctoral Fellowships at The British Academy . This call invites early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to pursue an independent research project leading to a significant piece of publishable research . The opportunity is aimed at researchers developing work in fields such as anthropology, sociology, history, political science, literature, communication studies, and related disciplines. The post does not specify a stipend amount or other fundi...