Postdoctoral research position: Horizon Europe project “Realising Girls’ and Women’s Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment” (RE-WIRING)

Application deadline: March 21, 2023
Interview date: March 24 or March 27, 2023
Starting date: May 2023

University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Social Sciences is offering a 33-36 month Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to undertake research in an international and interdisciplinary team as part of a Horizon Europe project (HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-5 Gender and Social, Economic and Cultural Empowerment). The successful applicant will be one out of six Research Fellows working on the project with the other five based across consortium partners.

The project will trace current limitations of girls’ and women’s access to political, economic, social and cultural power (of definition) and is geared towards developing new theoretical and methodological approaches as well as to facilitating institutional and societal change, focusing on the mainstreaming of a transformative equality approach in the EU and beyond. The project will thus reveal and analyse the existence of difficult-to-penetrate strongholds of power in different fields, occupied by gender-privileged groups. It will on the one hand investigate the main institutional, empirical and symbolical obstacles hampering access to power, while on the other hand identifying, crafting and testing/implementing possible solutions to it that are capable of achieving long-term transformations. The project envisions working with an intersectional, multiand interdisciplinary research agenda based on three-dimensional theoretical and methodological approach of the interconnectedness between the symbolical, the institutional and the empirical levels in order to create durable societal change. It also takes a crisis and cross-cultural perspective. See project description: https://www.uu.nl/en/news/horizon-europe-funding-fortransformative-research-project-re-wiring)

The Research Fellow employed as postdoc will not only work on the specific WP coordinated by University of Gdańsk research team, but they will also be contributing to the other work packages. The research is embedded in an international and interdisciplinary setting, in close collaboration with the other post-docs in the project as well as the senior researchers from the various partner institutions.