PhD position at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona funded by the TOUCH COFUND project

19 Mar 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Research Field

Educational sciences
Psychological sciences

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Spain

Application Deadline

30 Jun 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

H2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND

Marie Curie Grant Agreement Number

101126530

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Topic: Critical intersections of health, vulnerability, and discomfort in education: touching the students' lives with arts-based autobiography to build a caring university community

A PhD position is available at the Research group ATLAS: Critical intersections in education- Interdepartmental group: Educational theories and social pedagogy; Teaching of musical, artistic, and corporal expression; Applied Pedagogy from the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona under the supervision of Montserrat Rifà Valls (Visual Arts Education and Gender Studies) and Mireia Foradada Villar (Educational theories and Gender Studies). We are looking for a highly motivated candidate that will investigate intersections of health, vulnerability, and discomfort in hight education.

For the last five years, we have been experimenting with the writing of autobiographical accounts with the university students enrolled in the Socio-Cultural Gender Studies Degree (UAB). Through the reconstruction of their previous experiences in education: family, primary and secondary school, friends and lovers, non-formal education and leisure, several experiences of pain, abuse, discrimination, and violence have been shared. Recently, we approached to these narratives from intersectionality to understand how they inhabit and resist the multiple oppressions coming from the educational field –in terms of social class, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and health– with the aim of developing feminist inclusive pedagogies. The excavation and socialization of the pre-university biographies promote a caring university community while reflecting on pedagogy from gender theories.

Methodologically, biographical narrative inquiry serves to analyze the contexts of education and to stop the abusive, unequal, and unhealthy relations (Foradada & López, 2022; Hernández & Rifà, 2011). Using arts-based methods (Chamorro & Rifà, 2023), we explore a diversity of languages (poetry, visual arts, music, performance) that do not contribute to revictimize the students and train them as future professionals. We have already detected some topics in the narratives: the fragile identities of youth and children; roles, stereotypes, and expectations; decolonizing knowledges and pedagogical relations; non-normative bodies and neurodiversity; feminist education against violences (sexism, homophobia, racism); school harassment; and gender identity and sexuality. This research interprets the experiences and offers a more systematized space to bring some strategies to transform discomfort and vulnerability in a pedagogy of affects in higher education. Furthermore, the research will contribute to the skills of teachers, counsellors, and gender units to achieve more inclusive universities.

The successful candidate will be enrolled in the Education doctoral program at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in the framework of the TOUCH project. TOUCH (“Towards the next generatiOn of excellent yoUng doctoral researchers on mental health by developing an intersectoral & transdisciplinary approaCH”) is a new excellent doctoral programme co-funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Actions of the European Commission and led by the UAB for the recruitment and training of 24 doctoral candidates in the field of mental health and wellbeing.

The interdisciplinary research group ATLAS - Critical Intersections in Education focuses on the analysis of the inequalities, interdependencies, and experiences of the subjects in education (children, young people, families, education professionals...). From a critical perspective, we propose an educational transformation, based on equity and agency, to resist and contest the multiple forms of discrimination and exclusion collectively.

We are looking for candidates with an excellent CV, ahigh degree of ambition and motivation, and with good personal qualities to work in our Team. We offer a 3-year full-time contract (37,5 hours/week) and a gross salary of 2.375 €/month (the salary will be the same for the 3 years).

The candidates must fulfil the following eligibility criteria from the EC: Mobility rule: candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately preceding the deadline for the programme call. Experience rule: researchers must be doctoral candidates at the date of recruitment, i.e. not already in possession of a doctoral degree at the deadline of the open calls. Researchers who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but have not yet formally awarded the doctoral degree will not be considered eligible. Candidates must hold a degree that allows admission to the official doctoral programme at UAB.

Additional requirements for a stronger application are:

Training requirements:

• University Master's Degree in Research in Education, Social Psychology or Social Sciences
• University degree in Education, Psychology, Anthropology, Gender Studies or related areas
• Gender perspective in research
• English Advanced (C1)

Experience that will be valued:

• Participation in community projects
• Previous experience in vulnerability and well-being
• Training in inclusive pedagogies and narrative research

Skills required:

• Mediation and active listening
• Systematic study and critical analysis
• Team work habilities, flexibility and problem-solving skills

Interested applicants should apply through the TOUCH online platform by submitting a full CV, a motivation letter, two letters of recommendation and academic and English level certificates. The call will be open from the 1st of April to the 30th of June 2024. More information about the TOUCH project, the recruitment process, and the application platform are available on the TOUCH website .

 

Requirements

Research Field

Educational sciences

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Research Field

Psychological sciences

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Excellent

Additional Information
Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Country

Spain

City

Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://webs.uab.cat/touch/

Contact

State/Province

Barcelona

City

Cerdanyola del Vallés

Website

http://www.uab.cat

Street

Campus UAB

Postal Code

08193

E-Mail

[email protected]

STATUS: EXPIRED