Research Assistantships: Current projects
University College Utrecht offers Research Assistantships, that enables students to receive academic credits for serving as assistants to faculty members who are conducting pre-existing research projects (e.g. preparing work for publication or a conference). Unless otherwise noted these Research Assistantships are not paid positions, but the collaboration will result in a meaningful experience for the student that introduces them to and gives them grounding in the ethos and mechanics of research and publication.
Find more informationCurrent open positions
For a publishing project (due for Spring 2025) I am looking for someone to help to edit the manuscript. It is going to be a short book containing two essays and an introduction, aimed at speaking to translating questions around social power and the climate crisis to everyday life. It would be helpful if you would have some editing experience, are a native English speaker, and have a good eye for detail.
The research assistantship period will be mid-September to mid-December. Please contact me if you have questions: G.vanderree@uu.nl.
1 Research Assistantship is available to provide research support to Dr. Salvo Nicolosi and Dr. Türkan Ertuna Lagrand on a project concerning ‘gender-based asylum’. The project aims to pursue background research for a paper exploring the possibility of granting refugee status to women as a ‘particular social group’ without carrying out an individual assessment, in situations such as the Taliban rule of Afghanistan where the persecutory acts against women and girls are at a grave level.
This research will be aimed at contributing to the finalizing of a draft paper. The project primarily focuses on the drafting of a literature review on the topic of women as a particular social group in asylum law as well as the requirement for an individual assessment of asylum applications. To a lesser extent it may also be necessary to conduct some research into the judgments of the CJEU. Consequently, the research assistant will also contribute to the incorporation of the literature review into the text of the draft paper.
This is a unique opportunity for a motivated and research-oriented student who will have a chance to perform a literature review as well as to gain insight into the process of transforming papers into journal articles.
The research assistant will help with:
- Collecting literature and providing a literature review
- Finding relevant judgments of the CJEU which have not been covered by the existing draft paper
- Incorporating the literature review into the draft paper
- Double-checking references
Workload and start of the assistantship: 6 hours per week from 1 October 2024, until the end of the semester including some flexible extra hours depending on submission load, which adds to a total of 70 hours until the end of January 2025.
Requirements
- The student is expected to complete 70 hours of work during the Fall semester
- The student is at least in a fourth semester
- Solid academic standing in the POL or LAW track (especially EU law)
- Previous basic knowledge of European law is an added value as well as knowledge of additional languages (especially French), besides English and Dutch
- Strong motivation to work on research-based assignments
- Independence and autonomy
Deadline to apply: The deadline is 27 September 2024.
How to apply: If you are interested in this opportunity please submit the following to Salvo Nicolosi (s.nicolosi@uu.nl)
- An example of literature review (e.g. written for an assignment) or an explanation of how the literature review will be ideally performed
- CV displaying experience with research assignments
Note: Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT. For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link external link
Past positions
Queer U-Stories - research assistantship (Dutch speakers only)
Dr. Agnes Andeweg is looking for 1 or 2 research assistant(s) for the Queer U-stories project.
Assistantship description
Activities of research assistants will consist of writing entries for the Queer U Stories website (in Dutch) about queer writers related to Utrecht, f.e.Maxim Februari, Arthur Japin, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and Mariken Heitman. For an example, see the entry on Dirkje Kuik.
This internship is an opportunity for student(s) to further develop their research and writing skills.
Requirements
Students are expected to complete 70 hours of work during the semester; if a student can work into the winter and prefers to spread out the hours invested over the course of a longer period of them, this can be arranged.
Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT.
Students must have a proven affinity with literature, showing from the courses they have taken.
Good writing skills in Dutch and an independent attitude
About Queer U Stories
In December 2022, Queer U Stories (QUS) launched the new Utrecht Rainbow Canon. The canon shows peaks and valleys from the history of the Utrecht queer community; from 18th century sodomite persecution to the Utrecht Pride. The canon tells stories that have often been glossed over and is therefore a source of knowledge, inspiration and identification for the Utrecht queer community.
Utrecht has a rich LGBTI+ history. With low points, such as the sodomite persecution, where 18 men were put to death because they loved men. But also highlights such as the annual Utrecht Pride where thousands celebrate that everyone can be themselves.
The canon puts them in the spotlight and answers many questions such as: Why is Utrecht resident another word for gay? How did queers live in the 18th and 19th centuries? Why was the pink triangle exchanged for the rainbow flag? And who were Jacques Drabbe, Dirkje Kuik and Sylvia Bodnár?
The first version of the Utrecht Rainbow Canon was presented to the mayor of Utrecht, Sharon Dijksma, a year ago. This version inspired many to get started with Utrecht's rainbow history. Theater Oester turned it into a play. The municipality chose the canon as the theme of its boat at the Utrecht Pride. The Utrecht queer choirs made a musical performance. The Queer Film Festival organized a city walk.
This enthusiasm was a great incentive for the QUS team to extend the canon to the current website. A canon is never finished. Together with a large number of committed volunteers, we will continue to expand and adapt it, so that it continues to inspire with more and more elements from Utrecht's rich queer history.
Queer U Stories is a volunteer project. The core team consists of Kees van den Berg, Marijke Huisman, Maurice van Lieshout, Gianna Mula and Evert van der Veen.
Deadline to apply
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. The deadline to apply to start in the spring semester has passed, but late applications will still be considered as long as there are still positions to be filled and the work can be scheduled within the academic year 2023-2024.
How to apply?
If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact Agnes Andeweg (a.andeweg@uu.nl) and include Petra van den Boomgaard (coordinator of the research assistantships, c.p.vandenboomgaard@uu.nl) in CC. If you have any questions about the Queer U Stories project, please contact Agnes Andeweg.
Note: For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link.
Dr. Petra van den Boomgaard is looking for two research assistants
Assistantship description
Activities of research assistants will consists of:
Interviewing relatives of Nazi victims.
Archival research to contextualise the history of the victims and their relatives.
Transferring interviews and research into accessible online entries.
Evaluating process and integrating into material for academic research.
The internship is an opportunity for students to further develop their research, interview and writing skills.
Requirements
Students are expected to complete 70 hours of work during the semester. Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT.
Students must have a proven affinity with modern history, showing from the courses they have taken.
Good writing and oral skills in Dutch and in independent attitude.
About the Utrecht ‘Stolperstein-project’
The Utrecht ‘Stolperstein-project' (https://www.stichting-stolpersteine.nl/) has provided a ‘Stolperstein’ for 140 Nazi victims. These stones are being placed in front of the last address of a victim. The ambition of the Utrecht ‘Stolperstein-project’ is to further identify the victims of Nazi persecution. The stories and names related to the stones require further research. Moreover, the obtained information will contribute to an academic publication.
Utrecht ‘Stolperstein-project’ is a volunteer project. The team consists of Piet Herbier, Mijnie Borghstijn & Marijke Vreeburg.
Deadline to apply
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. The deadline to apply to start in the spring semester has passed, but late applications will still be considered as long as there are still positions to be filled and the work can be scheduled within the academic year 2023-2024.
How to apply?
If you are interested in this assistantship please sent a short motivation letter and cv to Petra van den Boomgaard. c.p.vandenboomgaad@uu.nl. Contact Petra if you have further questions.
Dr. Guido Terra-Bleeker is looking for multiple students assistant(s) to help improve the accessibility of a series of knowledge clips for the course UCACCMAT01 “Mathematical skills for Liberal Arts and Sciences” with subtitles, so they can be made available to a wider audience and supplementing them with Lecture Notes to be shared through Open Education platforms.
Description of the project:
For the course UCACCMAT01 “Mathematical skills for Liberal Arts and Sciences”, the instructor, Guido Terra-Bleeker, has produced a series of knowledge clips (video lectures) covering the course material. To allow students to review the material through a different medium too, the goal is to supplement them with Lecture Notes, essentially summarizing their content. Moreover, in order to accommodate students with hearing impairment (or just watching the clips in noisy environments), we would like to add subtitles to the clips. Automatic synthesis of subtitles through speech recognition software does not work that well, partly because it does not recognize all mathematical terminology, so the automatic result must be further edited manually.
Each student assistant will be able to work independently on one or more subtopics of the course (basic algebraic manipulations, standard functions and operations on them, differentiation, optimization of functions of one variable, visualization and differentiation of functions of several variables, (constrained) optimization of functions of several variables, integration, basic probability theory and combinatorics, and probability distributions). The first step will be to add subtitles to the corresponding knowledge clips, editing and fine-tuning the initial result of automatic speech recognition. Having worked through the material that intensely, the next step will be to produce a concise and structured summary of its content. In consultation with the instructor, Guido Terra-Bleeker, these summaries will be improved upon and combined into full Lecture Notes for the course. Ultimately, the goal is to publish the final product on one or more Open Education platforms for the benefit of the entire academic community.
Requirements:
The student assistant needs to be able to work accurately and have a sound understanding of the mathematical terminology and concepts involved. This could be obtained by having successfully completed either UCACCMAT01 “Mathematical skills for Liberal Arts and Sciences” or UCSCIMAT11 “Calculus and Linear Algebra”, with at least a B. Experience with LaTeX is useful, but can be acquired along the way.
Workload and timeline:
The project is to be carried out during the Spring semester and/or Summer of 2024. The exact timing of the work is flexible, but the student is expected to complete 70 hours of work during this period, in order to receive 2,5 ECTS of credits. Note that, as with all Research Assistantships, you will be awarded credits, not money, for this position.
Deadline to apply:
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. The deadline to apply to start in the spring semester has passed, but late applications will still be considered as long as there are still positions to be filled and the work can be scheduled within the academic year 2023-2024.
How to apply:
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your motivation letter (max 1 page), including a list of your math education and experience with communicating mathematics, to Guido Terra-Bleeker (G.M.Terra@uu.nl).
1 Research Assistantship is available to provide research support to Dr. Salvo Nicolosi on a project concerning ‘The Admission and Integration of Refugees in the EU: Legal And Policy Perspectives’. The project aims to complete an edited volume to elucidate the interconnection of admission and integration policies in the EU and its Member States. Hence, in the first part, the book studies how admission and integration relate to one another from a broader conceptual and constitutional point of view and in respect of certain EU policies such as family reunification and private sponsorship programmes. In the second part, the book examines such an interconnection across EU, national and local levels of governance. The approach is therefore multidisciplinary, crossing the boundaries of legal doctrine to also understand the policies and practices of admitting and integrating refugees Admittedly, comparisons among Member States and across different levels of governance facilitate mutual learning and help formulate best practices
This is a unique opportunity for a motivated and research-oriented student who will have a chance to perform a literature review as well as to gain insight into the EU and domestic systems of refugee protection, in particular looking at how people fleeing the armed conflict in Ukraine have been admitted and integrated in the EU.
The research assistant will help with:
- Collecting literature and providing a multidisciplinary literature review
- Adapting the research material to the purposes of research project applications
- Draft articles or projects and double-checking references
Workload and start of the assistantship:
6 hours per week from October 11, 2023, until the end of the semester including some flexible extra hours depending on submission load, which adds to a total of 70 hours until the end of January 2024.
Requirements
- The student is expected to complete 70 hours of work during the Fall semester
- The student is at least in a fourth semester
- Solid academic standing in the POL or LAW track
- Previous basic knowledge of European law is an added value as well as knowledge of additional languages (especially French), besides English and Dutch
- Strong motivation to work on research-based assignments
- Independence and autonomy
Deadline to apply
The deadline is 9 October 2022.
How to apply?
If you are interested in this opportunity please submit the following to Salvo Nicolosi (s.nicolosi@uu.nl)
- Motivation letter max 1 page
- CV displaying experience with research assignments
Note: Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT. For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link external link
The research assistant(s) will help the faculty-members of the Diversity committee with several projects and deliver a final product to be shared on the DC website. Our current activities involve sharing experiences, collecting data, devising practices and interventions about Equity, Diversity and Inclusion topics, such as neurodiversity, first generation students, class, anti-racism, belonging, hidden-disabilities, access intimacy, the role of embodied practices in inclusive education, etc.
We require assistance in order to read up on the current literature on the topics of our events, to process and research the data that we are collecting, and make them accessible to the UCU community.
The Diversity committee has developed a monthly structure to cater for various needs of the UCU community. We meet 4 times every month, on Tuesday afternoon; every meeting builds on one another:
“Doing diversity” event around the topic of the month, which is always related to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (see above), to which all UCU community is welcome.
“Intervention: round table” the week after the “Doing diversity” event, we meet with everybody in the community who has a concrete intervention about the topic of the month: to gather suggestions from the community.
Harvest session: with the DC we look at the notes we took with all interventions that the community suggested, decide what we can do with each of them: who we need to contact for which one: communication, tutors, MT.
Next theme preparation. DC meets to prepare for next month’s events and meetings.
Ideally the Research Assistant would be present to all these meetings.
Workload and start of the assistantship:
The students can start right now, and finish as soon as they complete their 70 hours, which include delivering a product that can be shared with the community (think of a digital poster, a report, a structured page with useful links —other ideas are welcome). If they want to devote 210 hours to their project, they could do a full academic internship with us [please add the link]
Requirements
The student is expected to complete 70 hours of work by the end of the Fall semester (if they finish earlier, they will receive the credits earlier)
motivation and commitment
Deadline to apply:
Deadline is September 15, 2023. But you may start as soon as your application is accepted.
How to apply?
If you are interested in this opportunity please submit a short motivation letter and short cv to UCU Diversity Committee <ucu.diversitycom@uu.nl>, and feel free to cc it to Chiara Robbiano and/or Konstantina Georgelou, and/or Corey Wright, if you already have an idea of who will be assisting.
Note: Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT. Please see the Undergraduate Research Assistantship course for more details.
Literature review on shared reading for the Culturele Apotheek - research assistantship (Dutch speakers only)
Dr. Agnes Andeweg is looking for a research assistant in the Summer term for a project commissioned by the Culturele Apotheek, the Dutch organization for shared reading.
Assistantship description
The Culturele Apotheek wants to present an overview of current academic insights about the effects of shared reading (samenlezen) on their website (in Dutch). They are especially interested in how shared reading impacts mental wellbeing of participants in various contexts. For more information about the Culturele Apotheek, see their website https://www.cultureleapotheek.nl/
As a research assistant, you will collect and summarize academic research on shared reading, and based on these, write a website-article in Dutch for a lay audience. The Culturele Apotheek offers a modest financial compensation for the work.
This internship is an excellent opportunity to further develop your research and writing skills.
Requirements
You are expected to complete 70 hours of work, and will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECTS.
You have an affinity with the fields of literature and/or psychology, showing from the courses you have taken.
You have good writing skills in Dutch, and an independent attitude.
Deadline to apply
15 September, 2023
How to apply?
If you are interested, please contact Agnes Andeweg (a.andeweg@uu.nl) and include Petra van den Boomgaard (coordinator of the research assistantships) in CC.
Note: For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link.
Student Assistant position: Editing and publishing two papers
For two papers that I, Gerard van der Ree, UCU politics teacher, have written in a draft version, I am looking for someone to help with editing (style, grammar, references), seeking suitable journals or websites for publishing, and submitting them to those places. It concerns one essay called ‘ showing up differently in the climate crisis’ and the other one is called ‘What is it like to inhabit social structures? The psychology of power.’ I do not intend them for extensive peer review processes in academic journals, but rather for publishing in journals or websites on the boundary of academia and activism/art.
Requirements
The student is expected to complete 70 hours of work by the end of the Fall semester (if they finish earlier, they will receive the credits earlier)
Motivation and commitment
Deadline to apply:
Deadline is September 17, 2023.
How to apply?
If you are interested in this opportunity please submit a short motivation letter and short cv to Gerard van der Ree, Assistant professor International Relations: g.vanderree@uu.nl.
Note: Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT. Please see the Undergraduate Research Assistantship course for more details.
In a student assistantship, a student will help me with several projects:
Student website
Interpret and summarize all suggestions and prompts from lecturers. Carefully list all the problems / faults and inconsistencies on website. Read / scan the other student webpages for other disciplines and report. Draft a report with clear goals and tasks to update the website. Gather updated course descriptions lecturers and make them publishable. Gather information on cross linked and interdisciplinary courses and create clear overview. Gather the other texts (also usable for brochure?). Communicate with track rep (and fellow) to discuss texts and marketing value, update website, communicate and revise with track members.
History @ UCU Brochure
Find and analyse brochures and pamphlets other courses. Draft plan / structure HIS brochure. Draft a report with clear goals and tasks to create brochure. Gather texts and info from lecturers / fellow. Create draft brochure. Communicate with track rep (and fellow) to discuss texts and marketing value. Communicate and revise with track members. Finalise brochure.
Communication
Communicate with ucu.communications, fellow, lecturers individual courses, Meetings with fellow / track members.
Focus group
Thesis focus group session for 4th semester students. Help setting up the focus group session.
Workload and start of the assistantship:
From January 23, 2023 until the end of the semester which adds to a total of 70 hours this semester.
Requirements
The student is expected to complete 70 hours of work during the spring semester
The student is at least in a forth semester
Independence and autonomy
Deadline to apply:
Deadline is 16 January 2023
How to apply?
If you are interested in this opportunity please submit a short motivation letter and short cv before January 16, 2023 to Dr. Erik Jakobs, Assistant Professor, History Fellow: e.jacobs@uu.nl
Note: Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT.
Queer U-Stories - research assistantship (Dutch speakers only)
Dr. Agnes Andeweg is looking for 1 or 2 research assistant(s) in Spring and/or Summer semester for the Queer U-stories project.
Assistantship description
The research assistantship will run in the period Feb 2022-June 2022, taking into consideration the availabilities of the candidates.
Activities of research assistants will consist of writing entries for the Queer U Stories website (in Dutch) about queer writers related to Utrecht, f.e.Maxim Februari, Arthur Japin, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and Mariken Heitman. For an example, see the entry on Dirkje Kuik.
This internship is an opportunity for student(s) to further develop their research and writing skills.
Requirements
- Students are expected to complete 70 hours of work during the spring semester; if a student can work into the summer and prefers to spread out the hours invested over the course of a longer period of them, this can be arranged. Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT.
- Students must have a proven affinity with literature, showing from the courses they have taken.
- Good writing skills in Dutch and an independent attitude
About Queer U Stories
In December 2022, Queer U Stories (QUS) launched the new Utrecht Rainbow Canon. The canon shows peaks and valleys from the history of the Utrecht queer community; from 18th century sodomite persecution to the Utrecht Pride. The canon tells stories that have often been glossed over and is therefore a source of knowledge, inspiration and identification for the Utrecht queer community.
Utrecht has a rich LGBTI+ history. With low points, such as the sodomite persecution, where 18 men were put to death because they loved men. But also highlights such as the annual Utrecht Pride where thousands celebrate that everyone can be themselves.
The canon puts them in the spotlight and answers many questions such as: Why is Utrecht resident another word for gay? How did queers live in the 18th and 19th centuries? Why was the pink triangle exchanged for the rainbow flag? And who were Jacques Drabbe, Dirkje Kuik and Sylvia Bodnár?
The first version of the Utrecht Rainbow Canon was presented to the mayor of Utrecht, Sharon Dijksma, a year ago. This version inspired many to get started with Utrecht's rainbow history. Theater Oester turned it into a play. The municipality chose the canon as the theme of its boat at the Utrecht Pride. The Utrecht queer choirs made a musical performance. The Queer Film Festival organized a city walk.
This enthusiasm was a great incentive for the QUS team to extend the canon to the current website. A canon is never finished. Together with a large number of committed volunteers, we will continue to expand and adapt it, so that it continues to inspire with more and more elements from Utrecht's rich queer history.
Queer U Stories is a volunteer project. The core team consists of Kees van den Berg, Marijke Huisman, Maurice van Lieshout, Gianna Mula and Evert van der Veen.
Deadline to apply
Friday 10 February, 2023
How to apply?
If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact Agnes Andeweg (a.andeweg@uu.nl) and include Petra van den Boomgaard (coordinator of the research assistantships, c.p.vandenboomgaard@uu.nl) in CC. If you have any questions about the Queer U Stories project, please contact Agnes Andeweg.
Note: For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link.
Zoöp UCU is looking for two research assistants for Fall/Winter 2021-2022
"Zoöp University College Utrecht" is a project dedicated to giving voice to the non-human life on campus. Inspired by Bruno Latour’s ‘Parliament of Things’ we seek to learn to listen, interpret and give voice to those living beings that have least political influence. We do this together with ‘Het Nieuwe Instituut’ in Rotterdam, which initiated the Zoöp concept in 2019, as well as some 20 ‘proto-zoöps’ in the Netherlands and beyond.
Our role in the Zoöp movement is focused on several themes:
- Developing and deepening practices of observation and listening to more-than-human ecosystems.
- Creating spaces for decolonizing our relation to nature and learning from indigenous sources.
- Lobbying for political representation of non-human campus life at the level of College Hall.
- Initiating campus events that disseminate and deepen the philosophy and practices of the parliament of things.
- Connecting and collaborating with other ‘proto-zoöps’ through workshops, visits, and internships.
For University College Utrecht Zoöp we are looking for two research internships. Each will amount to 70 hrs of work, for which 2,5 ECTS will be awarded. They will run in the period October 2021-February 2022, taking in consideration the availabilities of the candidates.
Position #1: designing and organizing the University College Utrecht Zoöp Festival 2021
You will organize a one-day ‘University College Utrecht Zoöp festival’ with lectures, workshops, arts and exhibition spaces. You will do this in close collaboration with "Het Nieuwe Instituut" as well as other proto-zoöps. Apart from the logistics you will have a lot of space for co-designing the festival: what kind of workshops do we need, who should we invite, who would be good speakers, etc. You will hold the contacts with everyone involved. After the festival you will harvest the outcomes in such a way that it can work as the input for a new festival in Spring 2022.
Position #2: harvesting, disseminating, and bringing further the University College Utrecht Zoöp
In this position, you will bring together what has been done in University College Utrecht Zoöp so far. You do this by ordering the literature we have, notes of meetings, the curriculum, and the information we have gathered. You can also interview the people involved in Zoöp, as well as the organisations we have collaborated with. In creating this overview of ‘where we are’ in the Zoöp, you can create a ‘knowledge map’ that shows possible pathways for the future. You will also be involved in co-designing a new course on the Zoöp, that is set to be taught in the summer of 2022.
How to apply?
If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact Gerard van der Ree before 1 October 2021, and include Diana Odier-Contreras Garduno (coordinator of the research assistantships) in CC.
A call for 2 Research Assistants - Editing a book: Key Concepts in World Philosophies: Everything You Need to Know About Doing Cross-Cultural Philosophy
Dr. Chiara Robbiano (University College Utrecht) is together with here co-editor Dr. Flavel (Bath Spa University) in the final phase of the editing of a very important book that will be published by Bloomsbury Academics in paperback:
Flavel, S., & Robbiano, C. (2022). Key Concepts in World Philosophies: Everything You Need to Know About Doing Cross-Cultural Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academics.
It will include more than 40 short chapters, each about a transformative concept from philosophical traditions from all over the world.
The assistants will help us to:
- Compile the book (put all chapters together in a large document, divided into 3 sections; adjust the format etc.);
- Make the index (each of the authors has given us the words they want to appear in the index);
- Summarize every chapter in one sentence to be used in the introduction (this is a very difficult task: for this requirement acquaintance with world philosophies is needed).
Requirements
- To have taken at least two world philosophy classes (among: World Philosophies, Who are we, Dogen in dialogue with contemporary theorists). If no candidate meets this requirement, candidates who have taken one will be considered too. So please apply, if you have one and are greatly motivated;
- Extremely precise;
- Great capacity for synthesis;
- Work under pressure;
- Honesty – none of the material they will work with can be shared in any way.
Deadline to apply
Thursday 9 September.
Job starts
Monday 13 September through 15 October (very intensive around 2 hours average per day).
How to apply?
If you are interested in this position, please contact dr. Chiara Robbiano before monday 13 September, and include Diana Odier-Contreras Garduno (coordinator of the research assistantships) in CC.
Migration, Food and the Inclusive City (MIGFOODCITY) research assistantship
Dr. Sara Brouwer is looking for 1 or 2 Research Assistant(s) in spring and/or summer semester to assist her in the MIGFOODCITY .
Assistantship description
Each assistant is expected to work 70 hrs. The research assistantships will run in the period March 2022-June 2022, taking in consideration the availabilities of the candidates.
Activities of research assistants will be tailored to a student’s interest and can include:
- Support in literature review on food, migration and inclusive cities
- Support in fieldwork and transcription (qualitative interviews in Lombok, (possibly Dutch language needed))
- Support in public engagement activities, including creation of (multimedia) material on the project’s blog
- Support the organisation of a public event in Lombok with community partners (Dutch language skills beneficial) and/or organization of workshops to build a research consortium
We hope to offer an opportunity where the student can develop their research, communication, and/or project management skills and where they can apply their creativity and own unique skills set to a concrete research project in Utrecht
About MIGFOODCITY
The Migration, Food and the Inclusive City project seeks to examine what role urban food practices play in the everyday integration and transformation processes of migrants in cities. More specifically, the project addresses (i) how migrants produce and negotiate the nature of urban public spaces and urban identities and (ii) how migrant foodscapes stand in relation to processes of urban regeneration. What can this tell us about how inclusive a city is? The project uses qualitative methodologies and draws upon scholarship in human geography, urban geography, migration studies, food studies, and anthropology. The MIGFOODCITY project will involve preliminary qualitative research in the Utrecht neighbourhood Lombok, a public event in Lombok, and various workshops to build a research consortium on migration, food and the city.
Note: The MIGFOODCITY project is funded by a seed grant from UU’s focus area Migration and Societal Change and was awarded to Dr. Sara Brouwer (UU), Prof. Ajay Bailey (UU), Dr. Manpreet Janeja (UU) and Dr. Natasha Webster (Stockholm University).
Deadline to apply
Friday, 4th March 2022
How to apply?
If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact Sara Brouwer (s.f.brouwer@uu.nl) and include Diana Odier-Contreras Garduno (coordinator of the research assistantships) in CC. If you have any questions about the MIGFOODCITY project, please contact Sara Brouwer.
Note: For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link.
We are looking for 1 or 2 Research Assistants–Cross-checking and verifying data collected on human trafficking cases in the UNODC Human Trafficking Case Law Database. Providing feedback on drafts and helping prepare the article for publication.
Alexis A. Aronowitz (University College Utrecht) submitted a report to UNODC in 2016 examining 155 cases of human trafficking. She has now been asked to submit an article to the special journal "Tackling Organized Crime and Human Trafficking’' (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/organized_crime). The paper has received approval and one or two assistants are needed to cross-check the cases used in the initial report as well as to identify new cases for inclusion into the analysis.
The assistants will help to:
- Assist in the selection of older as well as more recent trafficking cases
- Code these cases
- Make any changes necessary to the current excel sheet
- Identify recent literature on the link between human trafficking and organized crime
- Provide feedback on drafts of the article
- Help prepare the article for submission and publication.
Requirements
- Students are expected to complete 70 hours of work during the spring semester; if a student can work into the summer and prefers to spread out the hours invested over the course of a longer period of them, this can be arranged. Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT.
- Students must have taken the summer course on Human Trafficking (UCSSCSOC21). If no candidate meets this requirement, candidates who have taken or are currently taking the UCSSCLAW35 International and Transnational Crimes and Criminal Justice Responses course will be considered. While preference will be given to students who have completed the Human Trafficking course, please apply if you are greatly motivated.
Deadline to apply
Monday, 14 February
Assistantship starts
Friday 18 February through the end of the semester or into the middle of the summer term if the candidate can work longer.
How to apply?
If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact Alexis Aronowitz by 14 February, and include Diana Odier-Contreras Garduno (coordinator of the research assistantships) in CC.
Note: For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link.
In a research assistantship, a student will help Dr. Weiss with several (research) projects, depending on their personal interests:
- The first possibility is the 10 Years Up study (10YUP). In this longitudinal research project, we follow adolescents for 10 years, starting when they are 16 years old. To collect data every three months, we use a mobile app. This project can give us important information on how we can guide young people’s choices and how they affect their health and well-being. A student can be involved in different aspects of the 10YUP research project, such as helping with the day-to-day project management or looking for ways to keep the participants involved and motivated to participate. For example, they could develop a plan for engaging the target group, for example with a social media strategy. Other tasks could include processing raw data and data cleaning or help writing a paper.
- Doing a qualitative analysis on a focus group and in-depth interviews with postgraduate students from a South-African university on their well-being and autonomy as preparation for a conference presentation.
- Being involved in the project ‘Saving the climate and being happy – Can we have it all?’. In this study, we will examine the relationship between pro-environmental behaviour and well-being, and the influence of hopeful vs. fear-inducing messages in climate change communication. The student can help in this phase of developing the experiment.
- Helping in teaching tasks.
Interested students can email a short motivation letter and curriculum vitae to Laura Weiss before Wednesday November 30. l.a.weiss@uu.nl
Research assistantship
We are looking for a student to provide research support to Dr Salvo Nicolosi on a project concerning ‘Access to Justice and European Union migration agencies’. The project aims to thoroughly examine the emerging problem of access to justice for migrants subjected to the mandate of complex enforcement actors in the field of migration such as the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX). The expanding operational mandate of this agency has detrimentally affected access to remedies in cases of fundamental rights violations. This project, therefore, aims to devise access to justice safeguards that could be implemented by FRONTEX and contribute to the realisation of rights of migrants attempting to enter the European Union (EU).
This is a unique opportunity for a motivated and research-oriented student who will have a chance to perform literature review as well as to gain insight in EU system of shared administration in the area of migration.
The research assistant will help with:
- Collecting literature and providing multidisciplinary literature review
- Adapting the research material to the purposes of research project applications
- Draft articles or projects and double-checking references
Workload and start of the assistantship:
6 hours per week from October 15, 2022 until the end of the semester including some flexible extra hours depending on submission load, which adds to a total of 70 hours this semester.
Requirements
- The student is expected to complete 70 hours of work during the the Fall semester
- The student is at least in a forth semester
- Solid academic standing in the POL or LAW track
- Previous basic knowledge of European law is an added value as well as knowledge of additional languages, besides English and Dutch
- Strong motivation to work on research-based assignments
- Independence and autonomy
Deadline to apply
Deadline is 10 October 2022.
How to apply?
If you are interested in this opportunity please submit the following to Salvo Nicolosi (s.nicolosi@uu.nl)
- Motivation letter max 1 page
- CV displaying experience with research assignments
Note: Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT. For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link
Research Assistantship
We are looking for 2 or 3 Research Assistants to help the managing editor (Ling Ling) of the newly created The SPOTLIGHT Scholarship Blog with the editing of submissions that will be published in the blog. These submissions cover a wide range of contemporary human rights and political issues written from a legal, political and/or historical point of view.
This will provide you with the unique opportunity to read interesting submissions from scholars and students prior to their publications as well as to gain insight in the publication of blog’s contributions.
The assistants will help to:
- Managing submissions
- Double checking the content of the essays and citations
- Provide comments to authors in a professional and diplomatic manger.
- Work with precision and diligence.
- Provide feedback on drafts of the article.
- Creating Instagram and Facebook posts for the Blog three times a month, announcing publication
Workload and start of the assistantship:
6 hours per week from October 3, 2022 until the end of the semester including some flexible extra hours depending on submission load, which adds to a total of 70 hours this semester.
Requirements
- Students are expected to complete 70 hours of work during the the Fall semester.
- Students are at least in a third semester.
- Solid academic standing in the HIS, POL or LAW track.
- Recommended experience with social media marketing.
Deadline to apply
Deadline is Friday 16 September, 2022.
How to apply?
If you are interested in this opportunity please submit the following to Diana Odier-Contreras (d.i.odier-contrerasgarduno@uu.nl) and Ling Ling (l.li6@students.uu.nl)
- Transcript
- Motivation letter max 500 words)
- By 16 September 2022.
Note: Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT. For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link.
A call for 1 or 2 Research Assistants–Collecting literature, information, and data, providing feedback on drafts, and helping prepare a chapter/article for publication.
Gamze Avci (University College Utrecht) has been asked to submit a book chapter focusing on EU pre-accession assistance to Turkey. One or two assistants are needed to:
Identify and collect recent literature on EU enlargement and Turkey.
Collect information and data on pre-accession provided to Turkey.
Provide feedback on drafts of the article.
Help prepare the chapter/article for submission and publication.
Requirements
Students are expected to complete 70 hours of work during the spring semester; if a student can work into the summer and prefers to spread out the hours invested over the course of a longer period of them, this can be considered. Students will receive a pass/fail grade for 2.5 ECT.
Students must have taken the State of the Art in Political Science (UCSSCPOL21). If no candidate meets this requirement, candidates who have taken the UCSSCPOL36 International Organizations will be considered. While preference will be given to students who have completed the 'State of the Art' course, please apply if you are greatly motivated.
Deadline to apply
Deadline is Monday 8 April.
Assistantship starts
Monday 11 April through the end of the semester or into the middle of the summer term if the candidate can work longer.
How to apply?
If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact Gamze Avci by April 1, and include Diana Odier-Contreras Garduno (coordinator of the research assistantships) in CC.
Note: For more information on credit, how this Research Assistantship fits into your curriculum, please see this link.
Within the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht), Julius Global Health (www.globalhealth.eu) aims through its research to contribute to health equity worldwide. They focus on different topics, including maternal and child health, environmental health, non-communicable diseases, and ethics.
Julius Global Health is continuously able to welcome undergraduate research assistants from University College Utrecht. The assistantship can be part of the Alumni Internship Program (as a summer internship), or throughout the year as a research assistantship on a parttime time basis (70 hours approximately).
Activities of research assistants will be tailored to a student’s interest and can include:
- Support in (science) communication- and community-engagement-related activities, including the writing of layman summaries, creation of infographics, preparation of dissemination materials, co-organizing of events.
- Preparation of manuscripts for publication: references/bibliography checking, layout assisting tailored to journal requirements, supporting uploading activities in journals submission pages.
- Conduct of research: transcription of interviews, support in survey design and analysis, support in literature reviews.
- Application of grants: support the organization of consortium meetings, minutes taking, creation of visual materials.
- Support the organization of workshops and summer schools.
How to apply?
Deadline to apply: throughout the year.
For more information and applications: please contact Dr Joyce Browne (J.L.Browne@umcutrecht.nl). Please indicate your availability, and specific interests to allow linkage with specific researchers based on this.