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

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.

The research group headed by Prof. David Basin at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zurich) has two open positions for PhD students in formal development and testing of secure software. The PhD student employed will be given the opportunity to carry out a PhD in Computer Science at ETH Zurich.
Eligibility
* Master’s or equivalent degree (e.g. Diplom).
* designed for enthusiastic students with a strong background in formal methods or mathematical logic;
* with an interest in applying their knowledge to formal development and testing of secure software;
* experience in the following specialized areas: formal software development by refinement, automated test case generation techniques would be an asset.

The Templeton Dissertation Fellows in Evil in Early Modern Philosophy of Religion and Theology Program will provide at least two one-year awards with the possibility of a second year renewal in 2011 and up to two one-year awards in 2012. Fellows will spend their time in residence at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, interacting with leading scholars in early modern philosophy of religion and theology, and the philosophy of religion, for the purpose of undertaking cutting-edge doctoral research on their topic.

Applicants must have a Ph.D., and be affiliated with an accredited college or university. Applicants should be able to demonstrate strong promise of or an established record of successful publication.

The Centre for the Study of Political Change of the University of Siena offers PhD Programme "Political Science: Comparative and European Politics". The programme aims to provide advanced training in both the theory and methodology of political science, with a special emphasis on comparative politics, international relations and European studies. They appeal both to students who want to pursue an academic career in "border areas" between comparative and European politics and international relations, and to those considering high-level occupations in the public service at the regional, national, or supranational levels, as well as in journalism, international banking, and commerce.

The Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, offers a three-year postgraduate program aiming to explore the logic of political contestation in this setting of increasingly interwoven levels of governance.
Eligibility
* applicants with Master’s degree in Political Science or other disciplines relevant to the program (degrees should be received by October 2010);
* excellent command of the English language is essential since the working language of the program is English.

Heinrich Böll Foundation offers in accordance with the guidelines of the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) as well as the Foreign Office (AA) scholarships awarded by the Scholarship Department to German and foreign students. The scholarships are oipen to PhD students from Germany, EU and non-EU countries.

Scholarships:
- research focus „ Transformation Processes in Party Democracy “
- research program “Resource Policy and Gender Justice in the context of globalisation”
- research program „Global Social Policies and Governance“