ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must have qualifications corresponding to a master’s level related to the subject area of the project. If you have completed your education in Denmark, you must have a master’s degree covered by the collective agreement for academics in the state sector.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, you must either have a master’s degree equivalent to a Danish master’s degree (two years) or, as a minimum, a bachelor’s degree equivalent to a Danish bachelor’s degree (three years) and be assessed as having professional qualifications at the master’s level.

If you have completed your education outside of Denmark, they will obtain an assessment of your education from the Danish Research Agency.

Applicants must have skills in written and spoken academic English at a high level. Applicants with projects within French/Francophone, Italian, Spanish/Latin American, and German studies are expected to master the relevant language, both written and spoken, at a high level. The department may request that applicants document their English or other language skills.

Please submit your application online. To apply, please click on the “Apply now” icon at the bottom of this page. Your application must be written in Danish or English and include the following attachments (with descriptive titles) in either PDF or Word format:

CV (max. two pages). Please use this template: CV_template.

Cover letter (max. 1,200 characters incl. spaces). Kindly specify if there is a particular research environment you would like to be associated with or teaching/courses that you would particularly be interested in contributing to.

Diplomas, transcripts, and description of grading scale
Please include the following documents: bachelor’s and master’s degrees—diplomas and transcripts, and a description of the grading scale.  Note: If your degree diploma is not available by the application deadline, please include your latest transcript of grades.

Project abstract (max. 1,200 characters incl. spaces)

Project description (max. 12,000 characters incl. spaces excluding bibliography).
Please follow the guidelines on project descriptions available here:  Admission requirements and application procedures – University of Copenhagen.
If the academic purpose of the project requires special financial support (e.g., extended fieldwork abroad or investment in technical infrastructure) or special permission (e.g., access to archival material), this must be clearly described in the project description, including an approximate indication of costs or whether permission has been granted. No separate documentation should be uploaded.

Other relevant material
Please do not include suggestions for supervisors or commitments from supervisors, recommendations, theses, etc.

Applicants holding a degree from a university where the working language is neither English nor a Scandinavian language must include translated versions of their diploma and transcripts, verified by the issuing university.

BENEFIT:

Salary and Terms of Employment
Terms of appointment and salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).  The salary range starts at approximately DKK 31,242 (EUR 4,184) + an 18.07% pension contribution.

According to the agreement, the PhD student is required to carry out tasks at the relevant department to an extent corresponding to 840 working hours (6 months).