2 PhD Scholarships 2022-26 | PhD in Contemporary Studies

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Ph.D. Fellowships 2022-26 | Doctoral Program in Contemporary Studies

The Ph.D. in Contemporary Studies of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra (CEIS20) aims at training autonomous, imaginative and rigorous researchers in the study of practices, ideas and systems of contemporary and modern societies, approached from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) funding, the Ph.D. Fellowships aim to develop, for a period of up to four years, interdisciplinary research proposals from the perspectives of history, communication sciences, education and digital humanities, political science, geography, among other areas of the humanities, arts and social sciences. These Ph.D. Fellowships are distinguished by the fact that they encourage research that transcends monodisciplinary approaches, in order to build knowledge that articulates or integrates different methodologies, epistemologies and theories for the production of scientific and/or artistic knowledge on aspects of contemporary complex societies.

The candidates' proposals should be aligned with the interdisciplinary research that structures the scientific mission of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, attending to four broad-scope axes: (i) inequalities, borders and mobility; (ii) media and society in the post-digital era; (iii) democracy, present time and memory of dictatorships; (iv) theory in humanities, arts, social sciences and social technologies. Based on imagination and scientific rigor, these axes aim to promote an integrated study of the challenges posed to contemporary societies, as a way of building a space for interaction in an ecology of knowledge insights.

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The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20)

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies is positioned in a global ecosystem of scientific and artistic research as a centre dedicated to the contemporary creation of interdisciplinary knowledge.

The students of the Doctoral program in Contemporary Studies are welcomed into the research community of the Centre, and come into direct contact with an international-profile faculty, which promotes research dynamics open to new fields and methods, conceptual frameworks, training and technologies. The Centre's research team is organized into eight groups with disciplinary affinities and hosts several research projects with national and international funding.

The Centre is committed to the principles of open science, citizen science, gender equality/diversity, and sustainability principles, and offers a supportive infrastructure for management, scholarly communication, specialized libraries, work space, and equipment. The Centre regularly organizes and hosts events inscribed in international discourses and dynamics with an interdisciplinary dimension, publishes three peer-reviewed specialized journals, and offers a network of international, national and local collaborations and protocols, including different UC faculties, municipalities, libraries and schools.