Fulbright-Queen's University Belfast Fellowship in Governance, Public Policy and Social Research
Award #9387
Category:
Research
Deadline: August 1, 2008
Grant Activity: This award provides for a U.S. academic to conduct research at the University's Institute of Governance. The initial award period is 6 months, but may be extended, at the discretion of Queen's University, to a full academic year.
Specialization(s): Public policy and administration, governance, social research
Additional Qualifications: Applicants should be leaders or potential leaders in the fields in which the work of the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research is concentrated.
Location: Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queen's University of Belfast
Length of Grant: 6 months to 12 months
Starting Date: Between September 2009 and April 2010
Comments: The institute was founded in 2001 and is interdisciplinary in focus, pulling together staff from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and occasionally other interdisciplinary ventures within the wider University such as the Gibson Institute. Disciplines represented in the institute are law, management and economics, philosophy, politics, and sociology, all broadly defined. Applications would be welcome from candidates within these disciplines or cognate areas. There are a number of themes that draw staff together in the institute: (1) ethics and accountability; (2) decision-making and its explanation by complexity theory; (3) interdisciplinary aspects of aging, in particular advocacy; (4) local level governance and policy making. It is not essential that a scholar should be able to fit into these themes centrally but some intellectual contact with one or more of them would be considered advantageous. The candidate will have their own office, PC with Internet connection, access to the resources of Queen's library and information services. Queen's is not normally able to provide accommodation. Candidates should contact the current director of the institute, Prof. Sally Wheeler (s.wheeler@qub.ac.uk), for information on local housing, schools, and academic life in Northern Ireland. For additional information visit: www.qub.ac.uk and www.governance.qub.ac.uk.
