PhD scholarship in Employee Participation in the Generation and Commercialization of Innovation in China and Denmark

In agreement with the SINO-Danish Center for Education and Research (SDC), the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, invites for applications for a 3-year SDC-sponsored scholarship within an ongoing research collaboration on Employee Participation in the Generation and Commercialization of Innovations in China and Denmark (for information on this project, see below). The candidate is expected to become part of a new research team between management researchers from Aarhus University and colleagues from Renmin University within the area announced. The candidate will spend at minimum 6 months at the involved Chinese research environment and minimum 12 months in the involved Danish research environment.

Qualifications
Qualified candidates are expected to have earned a relevant master’s degree. Futhermore, it is expected that the candidate can work independently as well as in teams and is is able to and minded for working in an international and multicultural environment. Excellent communicative skills are also required and applicants who speak and understand Danish are preferred (as much data collection is expected to be collected in Denmark).

Applications will be assessed by an expert committee and will have to be approved by the management of the Danish SDC Center. During the assessment, weight will be given to the project’s relevance for the ongoing Chinese-Danish research cooperation.

The successful candidate will be enrolled at the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, and will be affiliated with the Danish Sino-Center and the associated Innovation Research Group.

Questions about the position and information about the announced research area can be achieved from Professor John P. Ulhøi på jpu@asb.dk at the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University.

About SDC
The Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research is a joint project on education and research between eight Danish universities, the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS) and the Chines Acadmy of Sciences (CAS). The Center will be located at GUCAS’s future Yanqihu Campus. For the time being, the Danish SDC secretariat is located at Aarhus University. The Sino-Danish Center is expected to be fully operationable by March 2013. It will accomodate 100 researchers from both countries. Moreover, the Center will offer high quality master programmes to 300 master students as well as PhD training for about 75 doctoral students. For more information,, please visit: http://www.sinodanishcenter.dk/index.php?menu_id=11

2 scholarships in economics (Labour market effects) at Aarhus University, Denmark

The PhD scholarships are offered within CAFE – Centre for Research in Active Labour Market Policy Effects. The research projects of PhD students should comprise, but is not restricted to, one of the following issues:

1. An analysis of inflow effects of active labour market policies; to what extent do these policies affect the inflow to public income assistance such as e.g. unemployment insurance benefits, sickness benefits, and social assistance?
2. An analysis of the importance of employment related programmes, such as employment subsidies, job training (virksomhedspraktik), etc. Projects that entail analyses of substitution effects/deadweight losses/general equilibrium effects will be given special consideration.

The aim of CAFE is to analyse different types of policies and interventions, and to develop and apply econometric methods using micro data. CAFE provides access to detailed population register based data sets and strong computational facilities.

The PhD scholarships are placed within the Department of Economics at Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences. Further information on the PhD scholarships can be obtained from CAFE Research Director, professor Michael Rosholm, Department of Economics, phone: +45 89 486 189, e-mail: rom@asb.dk, or Head of Department, professor Peter Jensen, phone: +45 89 486 482, e-mail: pje@asb.dk.

PhD scholarship in Price formation in Danish residential markets at Aarhus University, Denmark

Applicants must take a special interest in price formation in Danish residential markets and are expected to focus in particular on the following issues:

• theroretical and empirical analysis of price formation in Danish residential markets on the basis of the development prior to the recent financial recession,
• the importance of financial liberalisation, expectations and geographical disparities,
• estimation of price formation in Danish residential markets with a special view to improving financial forecasting and macroeconomic modeling in housing economics.

Questions about the preparation of the project description may be directed to Professor Torben M. Andersen, phone +45 8942 1609, tandersen@econ.au.dk

2 PhD scholarships in Marketing in Denmark

The Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University is advertising 2 PhD scholarships available at the MAPP Centre for Research on Customer Relations in the Food Sector.

The first scholarship is co-financed by a grant from the Strategic Research Council and Arla Foods, and it forms part of the research consortium INSPIRE, where major Danish universities, GTS Institutes and food producers cooperate in applied research in the food area. The project the PhD student will have to work with deals with Communicability and impression management in the design of food production chains. Part of the research activities in the INSPIRE consortium will deal with the design and implementation of new food production processes and new food ingredients.

Questions about the preparation of the project description may be directed to Prof. Klaus G. Grunert, phone +45 89486439, e-mail klg@asb.dk .

The second scholarship is co-financed by a grant from the Danish Food Industry Agency / Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and it forms part of the research consortium SUMMER (Superb and Marketable Meat from Efficient and Robust Animals), where a number of Departments and Research Centres of the Aarhus University and various meat producing SMEs cooperate in applied research in the meat area. The project the PhD student will have to work with deals with Work Package 5: Product Quality and Development of Meat from Efficient and Robust Animals and Work Package 6: High Value Marketing.

With the aim to increase the production and market share of ORGANIC meat (pork, poultry and young beef), an integrated research and development effort will take place along the food chain. The hypothesis is that this meat category is presently underdeveloped due to incompatibility between production costs/consumer prices and the experienced quality of the products, and that this incompatibility primarily should be overcome by adding quality in a broad sense to the organic meat products. Part of the research activities in the SUMMER consortium will thus deal with the design and implementation of new ORGANIC meat production processes.

Questions about the preparation of the project description may be directed to Associate Prof. Athanasios Krystallis, phone +45 89486374, e-mail atkr@asb.dk

Food production processes are today often used as quality signals by consumers and other members of the food chain, and should therefore be evaluated not only in terms of the physical products coming out of it, but also in terms of the impressions they are creating in the minds of customers. The research topics are thus related to research streams in the areas of technology acceptance, quality perception, and market signalling.

The MAPP Centre is a world class competence centre doing research on consumer behaviour with regard to food, and on implications of consumer insights for industry and public policy (see www.mapp.asb.dk ). It is part of the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University.

PhD Scholarship in Business and Social Science in Denmark

Aarhus Graduate School of Business and Social Sciences invites applications twice a year for admission to the PhD degree programme. PhD degree programmes are offered as 3-year schemes or 4-year schemes.

The general call includes a number of PhD positions in the areas of business and social sciences (i.e., law, communication, econo-mics, business administration, management, political science, psychology). In addition, this call offers openings in areas of special priority (see under "special openings" for details).

GENERAL CALL (SPRING 2011)

Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences invites applications for admission to the PhD programme. Positions are available per 1 September 2011 (or soon thereafter).

Applications are invited for a number of PhD positions in the following field programmes:

• Business Communication
• Psychology and Human Relations
• Public Policy and Administration
• Business Administration
• Economics and Business
• Law and Administration
• Business and Social Science

Note that in the field of business and social sciences, only the 3-year scheme is offered.

Deadline for application: 15 April 2011 at 12.00 noon (CET).

Applications must be uploaded via the AU Self-service. The online application system will be accessible on 16 March 2011. For further details and instructions see below.

(Next biannual application round: The online application system will be accessible in mid September. Deadline for applications: 15 October.)

Being a PhD student in Denmark

They are employed on a full-time basis for three years, and the salary is enough to cover all necessary accommodation and living costs and to lead an active life. A PhD student does not pay university fees.

PhD students at Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, work under almost the same terms as other research staff, i.e. they have their own office space with a computer, incl. Internet access, email, phone etc., as well as access to secretarial assistance etc. Moreover, expenses in connection with the scientific work are covered, e.g. participation in research courses and academic conferences in Denmark and abroad.

There are also good and well-paid job opportunities in Denmark for people with a PhD degree, both within and outside the university sector.

A PhD student in Denmark must complete an individually planned PhD course programme within the relevant research area and conduct a research project under the supervision of experienced senior researchers. The PhD student is also expected, as part of the programme, to spend some time (up to six months), with coverage of travel and accommodation expenses, at another – often foreign – research institution. During the programme, the PhD student is further expected to gain teaching experience within the subject area as well as experience with other forms of dissemination of research results. Aarhus University also finances participation in relevant PhD courses and scientific conferences. In addition, it is expected that PhD students participate in and contribute to the other activities of the department.

Conditions of employment

The PhD scholarship has aduration of three years. Graduates with a relevant master’s degree and students expecting to complete their study programme in the near future may apply for the scholarship. The employment is covered by a national collective agreement.

The applicant’s research potential will be the determining factor for a positive academic assessment. For further information on admission criteria and Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences’s PhD programme, please go to:

http://samfundsvidenskab.au.dk/en/research/aarhus-graduate-school-of-social-sciences/application/#c5407

or

http://www.asb.dk/en/research/graduateschool/

If you have any tecnical questions about the fellowship, application procedures etc., please feel free to contact Henrik Scriver email: hsc@asb.dk or Trine Bjerregaard Larsen email: tbl@sam.au.dk

If you have any general question i.e. concerning field programmes etc. you may contact vice dean Per Baltzer Overgaard, email: povergaard@econ.au.dk

Application and assesment

Only applications received through the electronic application facility will be accepted. The facility will be open for application from 16th March 2011.

In the application facility you must choose either The ASB Doctoral Studies Programme or the Graduate School of Social Sciences

The following material must be attached:

• Project description (max. 5 pages), including the expected theoretical and methodological approach, taking point of departure in the topic for the research outlined above
• Graduate diploma (including a list of all grades)
• CV
• Other material, if any (e.g. publications), which should be taken into account in the assessment

Application must be marked with vacancy number: 2011-218/3-55

Deadline for application Friday 15th April 2011 at 12:00 AM.

The applications will subsequently be assessed by an expert selection committee, and applicants will receive the committee’s assessment of the individual application and the response to the application from Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University approx. 2 months after the expiry of the deadline for application.

The assessment of the application comprises an overall assessment of the applicant and his or her qualifications. Particular weight is attached to the project proposal, the grades obtained by the applicant in the study programme, and to whether the applicant, during the study programme or in another manner, has displayed special skills in writing major papers, e.g. a thesis.

As part of the academic development process at Aarhus University, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Aarhus School of Business (EQUIS accredited) merged on 1 January 2011 to form Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences. Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences is one of four new faculties at Aarhus University and will on several parameters become the largest university unit of business studies and social sciences in Denmark, with a wide academic scope and several strong research communities. The final decision on the overall structure of the faculty including the departmental structure will be made during the spring of 2011.

Aarhus University offers a good and inspiring education and research environment for 38,000 students and 9,200 members of staff, ensuring results of a high international standard. The budgeted turnover for 2010 amounts to DKK 5.6 billion. The university’s strategy and development contract are available at www.au.dk/en.