(Level A) $86,587 – $92,796 per annum plus an employer contribution of 9.5% will apply.

Fixed Term contract for 12 months available immediately.

We are seeking to appoint a postdoctoral Researcher in international trade policy to conduct applied and policy research and teaching.

The Institute for International Trade (IIT) is a leading institution with a global focus and a reputation for providing academically rigorous and practical trade training, policy advice and technical assistance relating to international trade policy and practice. We bring together leading academics, experienced trade practitioners and negotiators to address key challenges faced by businesses and governments seeking to expand trade and investment opportunities globally.

Applicants should have demonstrated understanding of regional and global developments in trade and investments, with particular reference to a combination of the Indo-Pacific region, Australia, and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as the underlying economic drivers of trade integration. You must have the enthusiasm and drive to conduct high quality research and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision and co-operatively across multiple projects. In addition, you should have excellent communication skills (academic writing in particular), and will be required to supervise and mentor junior researchers.

To be successful you will need:

• A PhD (or evidence of submission of PhD thesis for examination) in international trade, economics, development studies with trade specialization, international political economy, or a closely related field;
• Demonstrated research output (publications, conference papers, reports or technical contributions) on current international trade policy issues, providing evidence of research and writing ability;
• Experience developing and conducting qualitative and quantitative research and analysing related data; summarising and preparing technical reports and academic journal articles;
• Ability to work both individually and collaboratively with senior staff to write grant proposals, generate external funding to support the Institute’s research program and develop strong national as well as international collaborations.
• Ability to occasionally contribute to teaching into the Institute’s Masters of International Trade and Development programme.

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs – including significant industry, government and community collaborations – offers you vase scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. And our work’s cutting-edge nature – not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour – provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our core values are honesty, respect, fairness, discovery and excellence. And our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity. We are firm believers that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills of our staff.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high-quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs 

Your faculty’s broader role

The Faculty of the Professions delivers excellence in teaching, learning and research driven by real-world, commercial needs in the areas of: law; business; economics and international trade; commercialisation and innovation; architecture, planning and landscape architecture; and global food and resources. It offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and has strong connections with business and industry, including internationally.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/professions 

If you want to change tomorrow, act today

Click the link to the online application form below and address and upload your responses to all selection criteria. Application close 11.55pm, 12 April 2019.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position; contact:
Lisa Hunt
Business Manager
Ph    : +61 8 8313 6944

The partners for the Open Research Area (ORA) are pleased to announce their sixth joint call for proposals due to open Spring 2019. This notice is being issued now to allow interested researchers to begin discussions with potential research partners in advance of the formal call for proposals.

Scope of the Call:

Four funding organisations will participate in the sixth ORA call. Three European funding organisations will participate: Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR), France; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany; and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), United Kingdom. In addition, we are excited to announce that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) will also be joining this round.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, Netherlands) will not be participating in this sixth ORA Call.

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, the core national funding organisation) will again collaborate with ORA as an associate partner. Applicants to the ORA call may seek partnerships with Japanese researchers. JSPS will open a specific call for Japanese researchers.

Proposals will be accepted for research projects in any area of the social sciences. In this round, proposals are required to involve researchers from any combination of three or more participating countries. The proposed research should be integrated across the participating countries, and expected to make an original and significant contribution to scientific knowledge.

Application process:

Proposals for this call will be submitted through the ESRC’s Joint Electronic Submissions system (Je-S). Detailed guidance about how to apply will be provided with the publication of the call for proposals documents.

The upcoming call will follow a two-stage procedure consisting of an outline proposal and a full proposal. Applicants who are successful at outline will automatically progress to full stage. Unlike the previous round, applicants will be invited to submit outline and full proposals at the same time, rather than waiting for the results of the outline stage.

We intend to announce the full call for proposals in April 2019 on the websites of the participating funding organisations. The closing date for proposals is expected to be the end of July 2019. The full call specification and associated documentation, including commissioning timetable, will be provided when the call is officially launched. We will not be able to provide additional information about the full call in advance of its publication.

For this sixth ORA call, the ESRC will be the coordinating agency.

Further information

For more generic information, and to be alerted when the call is announced, please contact:

For further information about NWO:

• Externer Linkwww.nwo.nl/onderzoek-en-resultaten/programmas/magw/open-research-area-plus/index.html
  (in Dutch) and
• Externer Linkwww.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/programmes/magw/open-research-area-plus/index.html
  (in English)

Further details on the previous ORA round can be found on the DFG website:

• Interner Linkwww.dfg.de/ora

If you have any further questions, please contact:

Canada, SSHRC:

• Paula Popovici,
  phone +1 613 992-0498,
  

France, ANR:

• Lionel Obadia,
  phone +33 1 78 09 80 80,
  

Germany, DFG:

• Christiane Joerk,
  phone +49 228 885-2451,
  
• Sigrid Claßen,
  phone +49 228 885-2209,
  

United Kingdom, ESRC:

• Marzena Bien,
  phone +44 1793 413 150,
  

Note:

This text is available at
Interner Linkwww.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2019/info_wissenschaft_19_15.
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item.

Closing date for outline bid proposals: 16:00 BST on 15 May 2019

Closing date for invited full bid: early September 2019

NERC, on behalf of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), invite outline bid proposals for international, interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects under the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Multi-hazards & Systemic Risks research call. This call forms part of the UKRI GCRF Collective Programme.

GCRF is a £1·5 billion funding stream to support research which addresses problems faced by developing countries. GCRF forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment, and funding under this call will be awarded in a manner consistent with ODA guidelines– external link.

Low and middle income countries are especially vulnerable to multiple and cascading hazards, and associated systemic risk where cumulative costs may be thousands of deaths each year, extensive disruption and high economic losses. The aim of this programme is to provide a better understanding of the drivers of multi-hazard events, and how the impacts of these events cascade through socio-economic systems and to use this knowledge to determine which interventions and policies are effective at mitigating the risks, particularly for vulnerable groups. The focus is on multiple natural hazards and the interrelated environmental, social, economic, cultural and health risks, and effects that can be triggered by these events, or can amplify or compound their impacts.

This call will aim to support a small number of large, international collaborative research projects with a value of up to £3·5 million (cost to UKRI); UK institutions are eligible for 80% full economic cost and overseas organisations are eligible for 100% direct project costs. It is anticipated that two projects will be funded and that projects will start in April 2020 and have a maximum duration of three years.

All projects are required to have a principal investigator based in a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding. Projects with co-investigators and researchers based in low and middle income countries are strongly encouraged, but will receive funding via a UK research organisation.

The submission of an outline bid proposal is a requirement of the call, and only those successful at the outline bid stage will be invited to submit a full proposal.

A live online webinar will be held in early April for potential applicants to learn about the call details and have the opportunity to pose questions to the UKRI staff who are leading the call. The webinar will be held twice to allow for potential applicants in different international time zones to dial-in, the dates / times are as follows:

• webinar 1 – 09:00-11:00 BST/GMT+1 on 5 April 2019
• webinar 2 – 14:00-16:00 BST/GMT+1 on 8 April 2019.

The webinars will begin with a presentation, followed by a question and answers session. If you are interested in attending one of the webinars please hold the preferred time slot. Details about how to register / dial-in will be provided on 1 April 2019.

UKRI is also holding regional GCRF engagement events– external link across the UK in early 2019 as a way for potential applicants to engage further with calls launched under the Collective Programme, and with GCRF in general.

The Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) is administering another resilience-themed UKRI GCRF Collective Programme call for research and innovation projects entitled ‘Equitable resilience: ensuring resilience enhances the Sustainable Development Goals– external link‘. The multidisciplinary call is being administered on behalf of UKRI, with projects expected to start in November 2019.

How to apply

Further information on the Multi-hazards & Systemic Risks call and how to submit an application can be found in the Announcement of Opportunity document below.

Announcement of Opportunity (PDF, 176KB)

Outline bid proposals must be submitted via the UK Research Councils’ Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) system before 16:00 BST on 15 May 2019.

Contacts

Sarah Blackburn
01793 411921

If you experience difficulties using Je-S or have questions regarding its use, please contact the Je-S helpdesk:

01793 444164

King’s College London is one of the top 10 UK universities (2018 QS World University Rankings) and the fourth oldest university in England, with over 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries, and over 8,500 employees. King’s Business School is the ninth and newest faculty located in the iconic Bush House in the heart of London, a hub for engagement with business, the City, social enterprise, government and the public sector. King’s Business School attracts students from over 80 countries into our undergraduate and specialist MSc programmes.

Our Business School is one of the top ten ranked centres for the study of management and business in the UK. The Economics group has grown rapidly over the past few years and contains a growing cluster of economists who are highly active in a number of research areas in applied microeconomics and political economy, labour economics and macroeconomics. In order to achieve our future ambitions we are now looking to recruit a Professor of Economics to add significantly to the Economics Subject Group’s research and teaching capacity and take a leading role in promoting the visibility of Economics at King’s. We are looking for a distinguished scholar who already has an outstanding international profile in the field of economics.

The School places a premium on international levels of scholarship and research excellence and you will be expected to play a role in the standing and development of the Group in this regard. The successful candidate will contribute both to excellent teaching and development of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The successful candidate will be expected to strengthen the Business School’s research capacity and will require a publication list that includes peer reviewed articles published in leading relevant journals. In addition, applicants must have substantial experience in supervising doctoral research students. The person appointed will be expected to carry their share of administrative duties within the Business School.

King’s Business School is committed to ensuring an inclusive interview process and will reimburse up to £250 towards any additional care costs (for a dependent child or adult) incurred as a result of attending an interview for this position.

The selection process will include a panel interview and a presentation.

For an informal discussion to find out more about the role please contact: James Ralphs via email at .

To apply, please go to: https://bit.ly/2NDAAXD and register with the King’s College London application portal and complete your application online.

Closing date: Midnight on 15th April 2019.

The Institute of Development Policy (IOB) of the University of Antwerp wants to contribute to a more just and sustainable world through multidisciplinary academic research, education, partnerships and political engagement. More information about the institute and its activities can be found at www.uantwerp.be/iob.

The Institute of Development Policy (IOB) is seeking to fill a full-time (100%) vacancy for an

Academic assistant in the area of “migration, trade and inclusive development”

Job description

• Your research and societal service delivery is situated in the field of development processes, actors and policies, with particular attention to economic development and empirical work on migration and/or trade shocks in developing countries. Your research focus matches the research line “Global governance and inclusive development”.
• Your research discusses the causes and consequences of migration or trade shocks in developing countries, with a strong emphasis on causal identification. A quantitative background together with some experience in dealing with micro-level data (household, firm, farms,…) and satellite-based and/or geo-referenced data would be an asset.
• You prepare a doctoral thesis in development studies in this domain (appr. 50% of your time).
• You contribute to the strengthening of the research line, i.a. through joint research and outreach activities and collaborating in applications for externally funded research grants.
• You assist in teaching assignments within the framework of the IOB master programs.
• Your research adopts a multidisciplinary perspective and uses a combination of quantitative (and, preferably, also qualitative) methods, in accordance with the IOB Research Strategy 2017-2022.
• IOB PhD regulations allow joint or double PhDs degrees.
• Your work includes activities of societal outreach.
• You actively support the cooperation of IOB with its partner institutes in the South.
• You function well in groups and you are willing to contribute to the service delivery to IOB, to the University of Antwerp and the wider society.

Profile and requirements

• You hold a master degree in development studies or in related social science disciplines (preferably with a proven interest in regression and big data analysis).
• You obtained outstanding academic results.
• You preferably have experience with development processes in the South.
• You show interest in interdisciplinarity and preferably engage with a combination of methodological approaches.
• The focus in your teaching corresponds to the educational vision of the university.
• Your academic qualities comply with the requirements stipulated in the university’s policy.
• You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative, social and cooperative.
• You are fluent in English.

We offer

• an appointment as an academic assistant for a period of two years, with the possibility of renewal twice, each time for a further two-year period after positive evaluation;
• the date of appointment will be 1 September 2019;
• a full time gross monthly salary ranging from € 3.338,21 tot € 5.649,28;
• a dynamic and stimulating work environment.

How to apply?

• Applications may only be submitted online, until the closing date 24 March 2019.
• The application must be completed with a PhD research proposal (appr. 1000 words) and an argument (appr. 500 words) how this proposal can strengthen the profile of the research line and of the IOB in general. This document must be submitted in English.
• A pre-selection will be made from amongst the submitted applications. The remainder of the selection procedure is specific to the position and will be determined by the selection panel. The selection interview will take place on 7 May 2019.
• More information about the application form can be obtained at .
• For questions about the profile and the description of duties, please contact prof. dr. Jean-Francois Maystadt ().

The University of Antwerp is a family friendly organization, with a focus on equal opportunities and diversity. Our HR-policy for researchers was awarded by the European Commission with the quality label HR Excellence in research.

We support the Science4Refugees initiative and encourage asylum-seeking, refugee scientists and researchers to apply for a job at the University of Antwerp.