2007/2008 fellowship program within the research project "Shaken Order: Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist Societies"

Location: Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria
Deadline for applications: 30.August 2007

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (Bulgaria) announces a Call for Applications for the Law research field under the international project Shaken Order: Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist Societies (Case Studies in Law, Higher Education and Science).

You can find more detailed information about the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and project Shaken Order: Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist Societies at www.cas.bg.
 
Further Calls will be announced to invite researchers studying the fields of higher education and science and coming from other countries in Eastern and Central Europe and the EU than the specified in this Call. Please, check for those at www.cas.bg  by the end of July 2007 and in May 2008 and 2009.

The fellowship programme is open to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia working in the area of the social sciences and humanities.

Four researchers working in the area of the social sciences and humanities will be enrolled as Fellows for a period of 9 months (1 November 2007 - 31 July 2008). The programme envisages several workshops and individual research. Non-Bulgarian Fellows are expected to attend the 3 working sessions during their fellowship period. They may spend research periods of varying length in Sofia (negotiable in each individual case).

The selected Fellows will receive a stipend of 700 Euro (for Bulgarian Fellows) and of 915 Euro (for foreign Fellows) per month which sum includes an allowance for accommodation, research trips and research expenses. The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia provides the academic, organisational and administrative support of the research. All technical and library facilities of the Centre will be made available to the Fellows.

Scholars working in the social sciences or the humanities from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, holders of a doctoral degree or at the final stage of fulfilling the equirements for such a degree.

Although the present Call is limited to scholars whose project proposals relate to the field of law, the individual topics may also interlace with the other two fields envisaged by the project (eg. examining science/education from the point of view of legal aspects, etc.).
 
Applicants may not be older than 45 years at the start of the fellowship.

Language skill requirements
The Fellows will work in an international research team, where all discussions, workshops and other events will be in English, as should be the final research paper to be submitted for publication.
Only applicants fluent in English (oral and written) will be considered and a certificate or another proof of language proficiency is highly recommended.

The application package must be submitted by e-mail (no later than 30.August 2007) to the contact person indicated below and must include:

1. Research proposal (no more than 1500 - 1800 words) including:

a short description of the planned research,
methodology,
contribution to the overall research aims of the Shaken Order project,
general framework of interpretation;
selected bibliography (10-15 works) on the topic.

2. CV and list of publications;

3. Optional: a relevant text (chapter of a dissertation, publication, etc.) of up to 25 pages;

4. Two recommendation letters from distinguished scholars (scanned/ faxed/ posted/ sent via e-mail by the reviewers).
 
The final results will be announced by October 15st, 2007.  

Download project's short research description

Ms Neliya Kolarska
Centre for Advanced Study Sofia
70 Neofit Rilski Str.
Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
tel.: +359 2 9803704
fax: +359 2 9803662
e-mail: kolarska@cas.bg