[ecrea] Vacancies: 3 PhD and 1 post-doc positions available ERC project 'Digital Crossings in Europe'

Dear colleagues, apologies for cross-posting, can you kindly inform 
possible candidates for these 4 positions on offer at Utrecht 
University, the Netherlands, application deadline is approaching: 
October 30, 2015:

There are 3 Phd positions available and one Postdoc position available 
within the project ‘Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and 
Belonging’ (CONNECTINGEUROPE). This project is funded by the European 
Research Council (ERC), by way of a Consolidator Grant awarded to the 
principal investigator (PI) Prof. dr. Sandra Ponzanesi (Professor of 
Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 
and will be running at Utrecht University, the Netherlands from 2016-2021.

3 PhD positions 'Digital Crossings in Europe. Gender, Diaspora and 
Belonging'(1,0 fte each) Postdoc 'Digital Crossings in Europe. Gender, 
Diaspora and Belonging' (0,8 FTE)
The project aims to investigate the relation between migration and 
digital technologies, in particular the way in which the ‘connected 
migrant’ contributes to new forms of European integration and 
cosmopolitan citizenship. The project explores digital diasporas in 
relation to issues of gender, ethnicity and affective belonging, 
focusing on how new technologies enhance new forms of connectivity 
between the homeland and destination countries, bus also across 
diasporas. The project pioneers a new interdisciplinary method that 
combines media studies, postcolonial theories, digital humanities and 
gender studies, drawing from the humanities and social science. It 
proposes a comparative approach, based on qualitative digital methods, 
that focuses on Somali, Romanian and Turkish women migrants who have 
settled in some of Europe’s main cities (London – PhD1, Amsterdam – PhD2 
and Rome – PhD3) and the way in which they keep digitally and 
emotionally connected to their homeland cities (Mogadishu, Bucharest, 
Istanbul – Postdoc). The project will chart how different forms of 
migration (labour, postcolonial and post socialist) impact on the new 
European order at the local and transnational levels.

Within the project, three PhD positions and a postdoc position 
(advertised separately) will be available for the following projects:

1. PhD1 - Digital Diasporas: London.

2. PhD2 - Digital Diasporas: Amsterdam.

3. PhD3 - Digital Diasporas: Rome.

4. Postdoc: The Politics of Home

The three PhDs will have to conduct fieldwork across the three migrant 
groups (Turkish, Somali, Romanian) in the proposed city (London, 
Amsterdam or Rome). The interaction, collaboration and sharing of data 
with the other PhDs and the postdoc is expected. The PhD and Postdoc 
candidates will of course have the opportunity to fill in the details of 
these projects or expand on them, based on their expertise, the data 
they gather and their own research ideas, all in consultation with the 
principal investigator.

If you are interested, please contact the project director, Prof. dr. 
Sandra Ponzanesi ((s.ponzanesi /at/ uu.nl)) for more information. For a short 
description of the project please click the following link: 
www.digitaleurope.nl/.
To apply for the positions please go to:

http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs

Postdoc: 
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PhD positions: 
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Koen Leurs, PhD

Assistent professor Gender and Postcolonial Studies | Department of 
Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University | Munstraat 2A 3512 EV NL 
|  room 0.05 | www.koenleurs.net

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