The international, and multi-institutional research network on social inequalities in Latin America (desiguALdades.net) offers Postdoctoral Scholarships. Its aim is to promote a paradigmatic shift by systematically addressing the relevance of transregional entanglements for phenomena of social inequalities. It is hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin where the research community of professors, researchers and fellows provides an excellent environment for the network.Candidates are eligible during the five-year period following the successful completion of their Ph.D. Excellent knowledge of both English and Spanish/Portuguese required.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars každoročně uděluje 20 až 25 rezidenčních stipendií odborníkům/icím jak z akademické, tak vládní i nevládní sféry, kteří předloží vynikající projekty v oborech sociálních nebo humanitních věd zabývající se národní nebo mezinárodní problematikou. Témata by se měla vztahovat ke klíčovým problémům veřejné politiky nebo poskytnutí historického nebo kulturního rámce pro osvětlení aktuálních problémů.

Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI), a privately financed institute affiliated with the University of Potsdam, offers an opportunity for students to experience a unique education in IT systems engineering in a professional research environment with a strong practice orientation.

The department of Social Research Methodology, Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, has a vacancy for a PhD position, funded by a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Eligibility
- candidate with a relevant university Masters degree in Sociology, Demography or another Social Science;
- excellent knowledge of quantitative methods of analysis is required.;
- the PhD research candidate needs to be proficient in spoken and written English.

The Wilson Center awards fellowships annually to PhD holders with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.

Requirements:
- outstanding capabilities and experience from a wide variety of -backgrounds (including government, the corporate world, professions, and academia)
- Ph.D. must be received by the application deadline
- publications beyond their doctoral dissertations
- Practitioners or policymakers with an equivalent level of professional achievement

Mezinárodní program For Women in Science, na kterém spolupracují společnost L’Oréal a UNESCO, nabízí mladým vědkyním stipendium, které má za cíl podporovat mezikulturní spolupráci ve vědeckém výzkumu.
Kritéria kandidátek: vědecká pracovnice do 35 let (narozená po 1. lednu 1976), která se zabývá biologií, biochemií, biotechnologií, zemědělstvím, lékařstvím, farmacií nebo fyziologií.

Přihlášku o stipendium lze podávat pouze prostřednictvím České komise pro UNESCO (Rytířská 31, 110 00 Praha 1, tel: 221 610 126, fax: 221 610 122, email: unesco@mzv.cz).

University of Edinburgh invites announces extended deadline for The ECPR Summer School: Federalism, Regionalism and Public Policy. The Summer School is open to all postgraduate students (especially
PhDs) wishing to deepen their knowledge of territorial politics and to
network with both senior and early-career researchers. This year's Summer   School will showcase the work of some of this field's leading experts of federalism and regionalism.

The Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) in Potsdam, Germany, offers Young Eastern European Fellowship for the academic year 2010/2011 to study German and European History in the 20th century. This six-month fellowship will provide young scholars from East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union with an opportunity to pursue individual research while participating in the academic life of one of ’s major historical research centres. The ZZF covers a broad scope of Contemporary European History with five research departments: Communism and Society; Economic and Social Changes in the 20th Century; Changing Concepts of the Political; Regimes of the Social Sphere. Urban Society, Welfare State and Rationalization in the 20th Century; Contemporary History of the Media and Information Society.

Applicants must have at least postdoctoral status with a significant academic record. They are expected to pursue their own research.

The Graduate School “Human Behaviour in Social & Economic Change” at the University of Jena (GSBC) invites for the summer school which aims at addressing 3 core concepts in Social and Economic Change: Identity, Innovation and Aging. Leading international experts from psychology, sociology and economics as well as the Graduate School’s faculty will give talks on selected related topics. Interdisciplinary groups of PhD students, advised by guests, faculty and post-docs, will work on one of the three topics in order to broaden their scientific horizon.

Děkan Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Hradec Králové vypisuje
výběrové řízení na obsazení místa odborné/ho asistenta/ky
na 0,5 úvazku nakatedře filosofie  a společenských věd.
Termín nástupu - září 2010. 

Požadavky na kandidáty/ky:
- specializace na filozofii a etiku
- magisterské vzdělání
- titul Ph.D. nebo před dokončením doktorského studia v oboru
- schopnost vyučovat v angličtině
- publikační činnost a vědecká činnost 

Přihlášky včetně životopisu, kopie dokladů o VŠ vzdělání v oboru,
přehledu vědecké a publikační činnosti zasílejte písemně na adresu: 
Univerzita Hradec Králové 
děkan Filozofické fakulty UHK
Rokitanského 62
500 03 Hradec Králové