FMG to appoint 12 Academy Assistants
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has presented the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences with a subsidy towards the appointment of 12 Academy Assistants (Akademie-assistenten). The assistants will be recruited and selected from among the FMG’s top Master’s and Research Master’s students, and will take an active role in a new or existing research programme.
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has presented the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences with a subsidy towards the appointment of 12 Academy Assistants (Akademie-assistenten). The assistants will be recruited and selected from among the FMG's top Master's and Research Master's students, and will take an active role in a new or existing research programme.The Academy Assistants will spend two half-days a week contributing to a research programme within one of the FMG's six research institutes. Which research institute and team they work with is largely up to the assistants themselves. The Academy Assistantship programme is designed specifically to provide students with training and practical experience in conducting research. The assistants can get involved in addressing a specific research question, join a sub-project within an existing research programme or, working under supervision, initiate a new investigation of their own. Further options include targeted fieldwork (within an existing research project), a predefined archive or documentation study or an analysis of primary data material collected for an existing study.
The OCW subsidy furnishes € 95,000 of the total € 155,000 required to fund the assistantship programme. Student recruitment will begin in March, with the final selection to take place at the end of April.