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If you are a postdoc interested in Global Political Sociology (of Africa) and / or Peace and Conflict Studies/Critical Security Studies and would like to combine working with us at Bayreuth University plus a stay at another research institution abroad of your choice, please get in touch!At our chair group we pursue a variety of research perspectives that might be fruitful for collaboration – ranging from practice-theoretical work on South-South relations, Chinese philosophy in Africa, transnational professionals, policing, intervention and statebuilding, politics of infrastructure, extractive industries and contentious politics. All can be subsumed under Global Political Sociology.

To receive funding for your stay, we would support your application for a DAAD PRIME scholarship, which was initiated to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers by temporary positions at German universities. Different from most conventional scholarships,  funding is provided for a postdoc project of 18 months, in which 12 months can be spent abroad (at one or several institutions, and 1 month at the beginning + 6 months (re-integration phase) with us.The deadline for application is August 31th 2021 to come work here beginning of summer 2022.Find out more about our work here: https://www.african-sociology.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ and here: https://infraglob.eu/.

For expressions of interest, please contact Maria.Ketzmerick@uni-bayreuth.de or jana.hoenke@uni-bayreuth.de.If you are interested but wondering whether you are eligible – please consult the programmes FAQ: https://www.daad.de/en/study-and-research-in-germany/scholarships/prime-faqs/