The NORHED II project, Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies Norwegian Centre for Human Rights invites applications for the PhD-level course “Human Rights Methodologies and Approaches” to take place digitally over Zoom on 22 – 26 November 2021.

The course is open for both PhD-candidates and junior faculty. The deadline for sending in your application is 5 November 2021.

Course description
Some of the issues covered include the basic features of international law methods and their application to human rights issues; the basic features of methodological approaches employed in the various disciplines of humanistic and social scientific research on human rights; gender perspectives in human rights research; and ethical issues involved in conducting human rights research. Some of the topics that are addressed in the course are the following: legal methods in international human rights law; environment, climate change and human rights; gender perspectives in human rights research; research methods in the social sciences; human rights diplomacy; political science methods and approaches to human rights; qualitative and quantitative methods and research design; interdisciplinarity; research ethics in human rights research; and, comparative and historical analysis of human rights.

The course will be built around a series of lectures on the above-listed topics followed by seminars with guided discussions. The curriculum is state-of-the-art, as the lecturers teaching the course are at the academic forefronts in their respective fields.

When applying for a place in the course, please send the following documents:

• a short CV of two pages maximum; and
• a letter of motivation, demonstrating how this course is relevant to your PhD project or research interests.

We have three guiding principles in the participant selection process, namely the quality of candidate; the relevance of the course for the candidates’ research; and gender balance within each institution and in the course as a whole.

• Contact person for substantive questions on the course is Prof. Gentian Zyberi, via email at: norhed-project@nchr.uio.no
• Applications for the course should be sent to Mrs Jasna Jozelic, via email at: norhed-adm@nchr.uio.no (cc Professor Zyberi).

This introductory online session will guide you through the general tax system, important deadlines for the ordinary tax scheme, specific information related to the tax liability for PhD students, and the specifics of the researcher tax scheme.  

Date: 4 November 2021

Time: 17.00 - 19.00

The Kitchen offers AU employees across the University to learn about entrepreneurial competences. This can be in relation to using your research commercially, seeking funding, or gaining tools to discover new value and/or impact opportunities within your research. Read more about The Kitchen here.

You can see all upcoming workshops here. Our 7 weeks spinout program is now called Validate Your Business Model and you can learn more about the program here.

Participation is free, however space is limited so please sign up in advance. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions all workshops will be held online.

In addition to our pre-arranged workshops and longer programs, we also offer free customized workshops to suit your team’s needs. You can see a full list of our potential offerings below, and feel free to contact us if you have a workshop idea outside of the scheduled program.

https://www.au.dk/sfs/materials-and-tools-for-researchers-and-facilitators/

If you have any questions, please contact Astrid Høegh Tyrsted at aht@au.dk.

AU Mentor PhD is an offer to PhD students from all four faculties at Aarhus University (Arts, Business and Social Sciences, Health and Science & Technology). The overall goal of the mentor programme is to bring you and the business community closer together in order to ease your prospective transition from university to a career outside of academia.

The mentors are primarily former PhDs from AU, who are now working outside academia.

From January 2016 the mentor programme will be running once a year with the following deadlines:  

For more information and registration, check out AU Career PhD's webpage on the mentor programme. 

Career Talks

Are you more interested in a shorter engagement, AU Career PhD also offers Career Talks, which allows you to have a one-time meeting with a PhD profile now working outside academia. For more information, click here.