PRR Project

Summary

This position aims to develop research activities in the thematic area of urban studies and urban cultures, in particular on urban and transnational mobilities, housing, inter-ethnic relations, social participation and youth cultures, from an anthropological approach and with particular emphasis on contributions to public policies. The researcher will be expected to design and carry out research projects and studies, publish and disseminate results and analyses, both nationally and internationally, establish partnerships and institutional collaborations, supervise theses and dissertations and collaborate in teaching activities within the established limits for researchers, in particular in masters’ and PhD programmes or in specialised curricular units of 1st cycle courses. The researcher to be hired should have experience of research and coordination of research projects and studies in anthropology in the thematic area of urban studies and urban cultures, in particular on urban and transnational mobilities, housing, inter-ethnic relations, social participation and youth cultures. They should also have experience of articulating research in these areas with public policies and collaborative studies with public institutions. This profile is aligned mainly with the activities carried out within the scope of one of CIES´ research groups – “Migration, Mobility and Ethnicity” - and will allow us to sustain a line of research with a strong tradition and background at CIES, but also to promote interdisciplinarity through an anthropological perspective and through ethnographic methods, by focusing on cities as privileged contexts to observe processes of mobilities, inter-ethnic relations, housing and diverse forms of social participation. It is also related to two Thematic Lines of Iscte SocioDigital Lab for Public Policies: “Global Governance” and “Social Inclusion, Equality and Citizenship”. Regarding teaching activity, this profile also contributes to Iscte´s training offer in the area of urban studies, namely the PhD in Urban Studies (in association with Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa), in which CIES is one of the Research Units involved. It is expected that the researcher will articulate the research activity with the teaching of content about urban studies and urban cultures in this PHD programme or in master’s degree or other courses.