English speaking vacancies in Holland: VACANCY: Phd student for project "The intergenerational transmission of abuse".

Wednesday 18 April 2012

VACANCY: Phd student for project "The intergenerational transmission of abuse".

The Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing is looking for a PhD student (OIO) on a project: The intergenerational transmission of abuse.

Location	Leiden, the Netherlands
Function types	PhD positions, Research, Development, Innovation
Scientific fields	Behaviour and Society, Social Science
Hours	40.0 hours per week
Salary	€ 2141 - € 2743
Education	University Graduate
Job number	AT PhD student (OIO)
Translations	en

Job description

As a PhD student at the Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, you will be a part of a small scientific staff. You will become part of a multidisciplinary project that
explores the intergenerational transmission of family violence. As is known, neglect and abuse is sometimes transmitted from generation to generation, but it is unclear how this transmission actually takes place and which factors play a role. Does this mainly have a genetic background, are factors in the environment involved or is it the interaction between the two? We try to answer this question in a family study that includes three generations in a multiplex, multigenerational and case-control design.
You will be part of the multidisciplinary research team in this project. Your main focus will be with the older generation and on the qualitative research methods that are involved in this project, but you will also be involved in the other parts of the research project.

Requirements

You hold a MA in Social Science. You are well-acquainted with qualitative research methods and interview methods. Besides, you have interest in dealing with other research methods such as questionnaires and observational techniques. You are able to work independently and in a team and you possess excellent communication skills, including fluently written and spoken Dutch and English. You are able to take initiative, you are enthusiastic and inquisitive and you have the creative skills to find solutions, though with a critical eye for your work.

A flexible work approach and ability to cope with stress is essential and you will be expected to present and publish your findings. We may expect you to assist in organizing an international conference on the project topic.

Conditions of employment

You will be employed on a 40-hour week basis. The appointment is for 4 years. After 1 year the employment relationship will be appraised and either of the parties may then indicate whether the relationship is to be continued, with stating the reason(s).

The terms of employment offered by the Leyden Academy are highly favorable. For example, you will receive a 8% holiday remuneration, a year-end bonus and an individual pension arrangement.

Contract type: Temporary, 4 years

Organisation

The Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing

The Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing is a medical knowledge centre with an international education and research program in the field of geriatric medicine. It was launched on November 11, 2008. The Academy selects young medical students and ambitious professionals for vocational courses, given by leading international academics and for research towards all aspects of Vitality and Ageing.

Leyden Academy stimulates their pioneering in implementing excellent and innovative care to advance the quality of life of older people.
The Academy started an in-depth study on elder abuse.

Additional information

If you have any questions, or if you want more information on this position, please contact mrs. dr. J. Lindenberg, e-mail: lindenberg@leydenacademy.nl.

Direct link to this job opening: www.academictransfer.com/13859

Found here: http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/The-Leyden-Academy-on-Vitality-and-Ageing-/vacancy/13859/lang/en/

No comments:

Post a Comment

Introduction of the ‘European Blue Card’

As from 19 June 2011 the Netherlands has a new purpose of stay: the European Blue Card. The European Blue Card is a separate purpose of stay in addition to the existing National Highly Skilled Migrant Programme. The EU Blue Card Council Directive is intended for highly skilled foreign nationals who do not have EU, EEA or Swiss nationality, and who wish to work in one of the member states of the EU. The Directive is also meant to make it easier to settle in another EU member state. A residence permit will always be required in that other member state, however. To obtain this residence permit the employee must comply with the conditions applicable in that member state.

The conditions for residence in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder are stricter than those for residence as a Highly Skilled Migrant. The employee must have a contract for highly qualified employment for at least one year, earning at least EUR 60,000 gross (in 2011). The employee must have completed a course of higher education lasting at least three years. The employee must prove this by having his diploma assessed by Nuffic. For a regulated profession, a competent authority will take decisions about the admission to that profession.

Advantages
One of the advantages of the EU Blue Card is that it is easier for an EU Blue Card holder and his family members to settle in another EU member state at a later date. After eighteen months foreign nationals who have an EU Blue Card are exempted from the provisional residence permit (MVV) requirement, if they want to work in another EU member State. In this second member state the employee must submit an application for a residence permit as a holder of an EU Blue Card. Each member state may implement the directive in slightly different ways. If someone holds a Blue Card in the Netherlands, this does not mean that the requirements are also met in other member states.

Another advantage is that after having stayed lawfully with the EU Blue Card holder in the Netherlands for two years, the family members may apply for a residence permit for ‘continued residence’. For other purposes of stay this is only possible after having stayed lawfully in the Netherlands for three years. The family members must have resided legally and continuously within the territory of an EU member state for at least five years, however. An employee who has stayed legally in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder for two years may apply for the status of ‘long-term resident as a non-EU member country national’. He must have resided legally and continuously within EU territory for five years and must comply with the other conditions for this purpose of stay.

Highly skilled migrants from outside of the EU

A highly skilled migrant is a migrant who comes to the Netherlands to be employed, and has a gross annual income of at least €47,565, or €34,881 if he/she is under thirty. This income requirement does not apply if the employee enters service for certain functions in an educational or research institution. For information on the specific functions to which this clause applies, you can inquire at the IND office for labour and highly skilled migrants. When a foreign national has been granted residence in the Netherlands as a highly skilled migrant, the employer of the highly skilled migrant is not required to be in possession of a work permit for that foreign national.

Professional soccer players, ministers of religion, teachers of religion and prostitutes are not eligible for a residency as highly skilled migrant.

Important!
The amounts stated above will be indexed every year as of 1 January.