Current Vacancies

Vacancy for a research coordinator (postdoc level)

The Department of Political Science and the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel are hiring a research coordinator for their joint Strategic Research Programme on Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe (EDGE).  The job tasks will include the coordination of the Strategic Research Programme on Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe, research in the field of democratic governance, co-supervision of researchers and possibility to teach one course at the VUB. Applicants need to hold a PhD in Political Science or closely related field. They also need to have research interest in representative democratic governance, practices of political representation, or citizens’ attitudes toward representative governance systems and good organisational and time management skills. Starting date is 1 October 2018 and the deadline for applications is 6 July 2018. 

4 PhD researchers on democratic governance

The Department of Political Science and the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) are hiring four PhD researchers for several projects on democratic governance. The PhD grants are for four years. You will become an actively contributing member of the VUB’s Strategic Research programme on ‘Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe’ and of the interuniversity Excellence of Science Project on ‘Representation and Democratic Resentment’. Starting date is 1 October 2018. Deadline for applications is 30 June 2018.

For more information about the facilities and benefits of employment at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, please visit http://www.vub.ac.be/en/ under the heading ‘future employees’.

For more information on the Institute for European Studies, please visit http://www.ies.be/.