Internal Senior Fellowships 2023/24
The Cluster maintains various fellowship programs for different target groups. Internal Senior Fellowships are established for senior researchers at the University of Konstanz. The fellowship finances a temporary replacement for teaching and administration in order for the Internal Senior Fellows to pursue a research project at the Cluster.
Available Funding
Applicants may request funds to pay for a temporary replacement to cover their teaching and administrative duties for the winter semester 2023/2024 or summer semester 2024 for a maximum of 6 months to pursue a research project at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality". The Cluster will cover the costs of employing a stand-in at their home department up to W2 level, but not exceeding the salary of the temporarily replaced person.
Eligibility criteria
Applications are open to junior and full professors at the University of Konstanz. They should have a keen interest in the Cluster's concepts and lines of research and demonstrate their ability to contribute to the Cluster's overall research program. The Cluster is looking for individuals with an established track record in inequality research within fields directly related to the Cluster's research agenda, though not necessarily in disciplines already represented at the Cluster. Senior Fellows will become members of the Cluster for the duration of the fellowship and are expected to actively participate in Cluster activities and be present in the Cluster's daily life.
Application Process and Deadline
To apply, please submit the following documents:
- Project description (max. four pages) and the application form. For the project description, please consider the schedule for the fellowship, how the fellowship will contribute to the Cluster's research and your research project, the overall objective and outputs of the research, and if already known, the name of the person suggested as a replacement. The proposal should contribute to the research agenda of the Cluster, investigating core aspects of the political dimension of inequality. The application form as a template is provided in the box to the right.
- Curriculum vitae and list of publications.
Please note that candidates must receive approval for the leave from both the respective Department and the Rectorate before the start of the fellowship.
Please submit your application consisting of the application form, project description, CV, and list of publications via our Online Application Form below.
Application deadline is:
31st of May 2023 until 23:59 CEST
Selection Procedure
The Cluster Board will assess all applications following several criteria:
- Track Record in the area of inequality research
- The relevance of the proposal for the Cluster research agenda
- Previous engagement for and in the Cluster
Additional Information
For further information, please contact the Clusters Research and Project Manager, Milica Milosavljevic milica.milosavljevic@uni-konstanz.de
The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007 it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative, and in its follow-up program, the Excellence Strategy. The Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" includes researchers from political science, sociology, economics, linguistics, psychology, law, and education studies. They study how people perceive these inequalities, how they lead to collective mobilization, and how political actors respond to them.
This Call is Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG - German Research Foundation) under the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments – EXC-2035/1 – 390681379 and is in accordance with the Bylaws for the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality: Perceptions, Participation and Policies" of the University of Konstanz.
For more information on the Cluster, please visit: http://inequality.uni.kn