We are looking for a Doctoral candidate to contribute to the project “The Home-Debt Nexus: Feminist perspectives on housing, gender, and everyday life,” starting in September 2024. The project addresses the challenges of women’s dependency at the nexus of indebtedness and making home. It explores their everyday practices of responding to these challenges, and the geographical and material conditions of indebted life. The selected candidate will conduct a qualitative study of female-headed households in Latin American cities and work with urban and feminist perspectives. This is a 48-months long collaborative project in which we will work with researchers at Universidad Nacional de San Martin (BA), Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (CDMX), upon receipt of funding. The successful applicant will be based at the Social Geography and Urban Studies research group in Zurich. To better understand the doctorate at the University of Zurich, which is mainly research based, please visit the website of the graduate school in Geography (link below).
Your tasks
- Development and implementation of a PhD-research project that aligns with the above research themes, including extensive fieldwork periods;
- Participation in the organization and realization of project workshops and conference sessions;
- Presentation of research results at conferences and in publications; Collaboration in teaching and administration of the research group.
Your profile
- Very good Master’s degree in human geography, sociology, planning or urban studies, or a related social science discipline;
- Knowledge of qualitative methods of empirical social research (e.g. qualitative interviews, focus groups, ethnographic methods, document analysis, etc.);
- Very good written and spoken Spanish and English skills are an essential requirement; joy in academic writing:
- Ability to work independently and strong social skills for collaborative teamwork; willingness to work with community partners.
We offer you
- Permanent workplace with high-quality technical equipment in a lively institute and campus environment;
- Participation in the Graduate School of the Geography department;
- Work location with a high quality of life (Zurich), flexible working hours and possibilities for partly mobile work;
Universität Zürich
Department of Geography
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8067 Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Hanna Hilbrandt
Tel.: 044 63 55142
hanna.hibrand@geo.uzh.ch
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