The COST Action 34 is organizing the Summer School on “Quantitative and qualitative methods and their relative merits in research on gender and well-being” to be held in the facilities of Porto Conte Ricerche, in NW-Sardinia from June 8th afternoon to June 13th morning 2009.
Participants may be Ph.D. students, junior faculty, or senior professors. They have an half an hour each within an afternoon session to present their work in progress, no results necessary yet, stressing the methodological aspects of work and asking for advice on how best to proceed. Both teachers and participants should focus on: how they integrate the gender dimension in their research; how they went about finding or producing data; how they conceptualized their research, placed in literature context, formulate hypotheses, made a research plan; how they analyzed data; advantages and limitations of the methodology used; what were the main problems encountered.

LMU (Ludwig-Maxmilians Universitat Munchen) will be awarding the 20 research fellowships to candidates who have completed their doctoral studies in any field, having graduated no more than three years ago with outstanding results. The fellows must be able to design a research project and successfully carry it through to completion. They will have two full years to conduct their research at LMU and expand their academic profile. Upon a positive evaluation of the research achievement, the fellowship may be extended by another two years.

The ITRI Graduate Scholarship Program pays full scholarship for foreign MS graduates to get their PhD in Taiwan at National Chiao Tung U or National Tsing Hua U, particularly in the areas of Information and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Optoelectronics and Photonics.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University is pleased to announce the College Fellows Program. This program is for exceptional scholars who have recently completed their doctoral work and have demonstrated excellence in teaching.
Areas of specialization: Classics (Ancient History),
East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Pre-modern Japanese History),
East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Pre-modern Japanese Literature),
English (English Literature), English (English Literature), Linguistics (Phonology),
Music (Ethnomusicology and Jazz), Music (Musicology),
Romance Languages and Literatures (French Literature and Culture),
Romance Languages and Literatures (Latin America Literature and Culture),
Anthropology (Human Evolutionary Biology), Anthropology (Archaeology),
Anthropology (Social Anthropology), Economics, Government, History,
History of Science, Psychology, Sociology, Women, Gender, and Sexuality

The Centre for European Studies at Carleton University (Ottawa) invites applications from European scholars for a short-term research-teaching visit to Carleton University. The visit is expected to be approximately 3 weeks in length to include the period between July 19 and August 1, 2009.

Candidates with a strong background in the analysis of family changes in Western societies are invited to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship at the Canada Research Chair in Social Statistics and Family Change. The candidate's research program could focus on topics such as the transformation of conjugal life, the impact of family changes on fertility, balancing family and work, family life around retirement age, as well as family policies. Research projects should make extensive use of recent large Canadian surveys, and incorporate other foreign data sets for comparative analyses.

The 2nd International Workshop on Computer-Aided Qualitative Research 2009 will be held in the beautiful city of Utrecht in The Netherlands on 4-5 June 2009. This workshop is organised by Merlien and is supported by the Qualitative Market Research Journal (QMRIJ). This highly interactive, cross-disciplinary workshop will bring together qualitative researchers, practitioners and students to discuss key issues on the use of software tools in qualitative research

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University invites
top-talented Masters students with a background in European Studies and
International Relations to apply for newly opened PhD positions. These
salaried positions will contribute to the Faculty's core research
project 'Administrative Governance'.

I.S.E.O International graduate summerschool is back again, for its 6th edition. As in the previous years, teachers will be Nobel Laureates in Economics and notable international economists who will lead participants to a stimulating discussion about 2009 topics, namely "Financial markets in the world economy". Lecturers will focus on the current financial crisis and will go through its effects on the world economy, the welfare state and developing countries economies.

This year Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) proposal applications will be considered on any of the following research priorities topics:
(1) the age issue,
(2) the proficiency of English language teachers,
(3) technology in language learning and teaching,
(4) effective grammar instruction,
(5) bilingualism and plurilingualism in business and industry, and
(6) language assessment.