Applications should focus on one of the following themes:
- Institutional interaction in disaster contexts, for example military-civil or state-private sectors.
- Urban disasters and grassroots activism.
The PhD scholarship is funded by the UCPH Excellence Program for Interdisciplinary Research and is part of "Changing Disasters", an interdisciplinary research program setting out to explore the relationship between disasters and societies. The aim of "Changing Disasters" is to investigate how the perpetual presence of real or virtual disasters gives shape to contemporary societies. As hybrid phenomena disasters cannot be explored without 360 degrees knowledge of the various dimensions of human life. The research project is therefore coordinated by researchers from all six faculties of the University of Copenhagen covering theology, law, cultural studies, anthropology, engineering and economics.
PhD program
The successful applicant will be part of the PhD program at the Department of Anthropology. The program provides PhD students with strong research training, which opens up a window of opportunity to a variety of careers within the private and public sectors. The program includes the drafting of a PhD thesis, active participation in research networks, PhD courses, and teaching and other forms of knowledge dissemination. The PhD program is to be undertaken as a three year full-time study within the framework of the 5+3 study program.
