The University of Helsinki is an international academic community of 40,000 students and staff members. It operates on four campuses in Helsinki and at 17 other locations.
The University will introduce a doctoral education system consisting of four doctoral schools and 32 doctoral programmes at the beginning of 2014. The goal of the reform is to improve the quality and efficiency of the doctoral education.
The University of Helsinki invites applications for 5 DOCTORAL STUDENT POSITIONS in the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change for a 1-4 year period starting from 1.1.2014.
Description of the doctoral programme
The Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change includes disciplines and institutions of three faculties of the University of Helsinki. It also includes as a sub-programme the Doctoral Programme for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES).
The participating disciplines are as follows:
The Faculty of Social Sciences, the Department of Political and Economic Studies
- Development Studies
- Economic and Social History
- Political History
- Political Science (3 specialisation options: Administration and organisations; Politics; World politics).
The Faculty of Arts, the Department of World Cultures
- Area and Cultural Studies (6 specialisation options: European Studies; Latin American Studies; Nordic Studies; North American Studies; Russian and East European Studies; East Central European, Balkan and Baltic Studies.).
Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, the Department of Economics and Management
- Consumer Economics
The program includes a multidisciplinary faculty and departmental cross-national research units:
- Centre for Nordic Studies ( CENS)
- Network for European Studies (NES)
The Doctoral Programme for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) is an internationally renowned nationwide network of experts, researchers and students. The PhD students of the Programme will be integrated to the research of the Aleksanteri Institute as well as to the activities of the Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies. The Programme is open for all PhD students of the city centre campus faculties.
