PhD Researcher in Anthropology - Migration & Urban Futures

University of Oulu; Oulu; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive gross salary

Mobility allowance

Family allowance

HR Excellence in Research label

Marie Curie MSCA position

Secondments across Europe

Structured mentoring and training

Job summary

University of Oulu invites applications for a Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology to join the MITIME programme. The project focuses on migration, temporality, and urban life, with fieldwork primarily in Oulu, Finland, and/or Bochum, Germany. You will conduct interdisciplinary research leading to a PhD and participate in two secondments.

The position offers a competitive MSCA salary with mobility and family allowances, and comprehensive training and mentoring within a dynamic European network.

Qualifications

• Hold a relevant Master’s degree that has been completed before the start of the contract.
• Strong capacity for interdisciplinary and collaborative research in international contexts.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Willingness to participate in international mobility and research secondments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct original interdisciplinary research at the intersection of migration, temporality, and urban inequality, leading to a PhD thesis.
• Combine multimodal ethnography with critical discourse analysis.
• Undertake two secondments: City of Oulu and Ruhr University Bochum; engage in policy analysis and methods for documenting social geographies.

Skills

Interdisciplinary research

Academic writing

English proficiency

Independent and collaborative work

Education

Master’s degree

Job description

University of Oulu invites applications for a Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology to join the MITIME programme. The project focuses on migration, temporality, and urban life, with fieldwork primarily in Oulu, Finland, and/or Bochum, Germany. You will conduct interdisciplinary research leading to a PhD and participate in two secondments.

The position offers a competitive MSCA salary with mobility and family allowances, and comprehensive training and mentoring within a dynamic European network.