Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Social Science and Humanities at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a vacant three-year PhD scholarship in young people's self-organised networks and communities, democratic governance, and social media funded by a grant from Tuborg Foundation. The successful candidate is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the research activities of the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy. The programme is highly international, and the successful candidate will be expected to participate in international research conferences and to spend time abroad as a visiting PhD student.

The PhD-scholarship is linked to questions about young people's self-organized networks and communities, democratic governance, and social media. The project is an action-oriented research project that examines how to ensure that young people's spontaneous self-organized communities develop democratically and how social media can be used as a positive tool for this. The project aims to investigate how inclusion/exclusion mechanisms takes place in new and informal associations and networks, along with the role played by social media and its consequences for democratic governance.

The applicant must:

[1] Hold a Master in social science disciplines and/or humanities.

[2] Demonstrate high theoretical and methodological competencies.

[3] Demonstrate his/her potential ability to contribute to and enrich the principal components of the CISTAS project in general and the topic of young people's self-organized communities, democratic governance, and social media when formulating their PhD research proposal (maximum five pages).

[4] Demonstrate professional proficiency in English and Danish (written and spoken) enough to work empirically with young people's self-organized networks and communities, as well as to disseminate research findings to a broader audience.