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<p>A Macquarie University PhD scholarship (MQRES) is available in the Department
of Sociology affiliated with an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant
DP120101157 entitled “Everyday Multiculturalism at Work”.</p>
<p><strong>Please quote the allocation reference number 2012090 on your
application form.</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold">Project Name:</span> Everyday Diversity at
Work</p>
<p>A PhD candidate is sought to work on a topic related to this project. The
exact thesis topic can be negotiated and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. The candidate will work under the
supervision of Drs Velayutham and Wise.</p>
<p>Interested candidates must be Australian (or New Zealand) citizens or have
permanent Australian residency status to qualify for a full scholarship,
including living allowance stipend. International Candidates may be considered
for a tuition only (no stipend) scholarship.</p>
<p>Candidates should have either an honours or a master's degree in<strong> sociology,
cultural studies, anthropology, human geography, or a closely related
discipline</strong>. They should have a strong interest in theoretically informed
qualitative research, ideally some past research experience, and an excellent
academic record.</p>
<p>Candidates will be required to develop their own independent PhD project
entailing fieldwork based research in either (both) Singapore or Australia in
one or more of the following topics:</p>
<ul>
<li>Everyday Multiculturalism, conviviality and negotiating everyday difference
in suburbia
<li>Everyday Diversity in global cities
<li>Everyday racism
<li>Ethnicity, identity, and everyday multiculturalism in the workplace
<li>Inter-ethnic solidarity and conflict in the workplace, and/or through unions
<li>Migrant (and transnational migrant) labour
<li>New immigrants and work in Singapore
<li>Working class cosmopolitanism
<li>‘White’ attitudes towards and experiences of multiculturalism in Australia
</li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></ul>
<p>Interested prospective applicants should contact, in the first instance,
either Selvaraj Velayutham or Amanda with a short (3-5 pages) research proposal
and an academic writing sample prior to submitting a formal application
form.</p>
<p>Contact Selvaraj Velayutham one email: <a href="mailto:Selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au">Selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au</a> or phone: 61 2 9850
4426, or Amanda Wise, email: <a href="mailto:Amanda.wise@mq.edu.au">Amanda.wise@mq.edu.au</a> or phone: 61 2 9850
8835.</p>
<p>The 2012 MQRES full-time stipend rate is $23,728 pa tax exempt for 3.5
years.</p>
<p>Prospective PhD applicants should have a first class Honours degree or
equivalence, and for scholarship holders, additional relevant research
experience and/or qualifications in line with the University's scholarship
rating guidelines. Refer to <a href="http://www.hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/scholarships/scholarship_requirements">Scholarship Requirements</a> for further information
about this.</p>
<p><b>Applicants will need to complete a candidature/scholarship application
form and arrange for two academic referee reports to be submitted to the Higher
Degree Research Office</b>. Refer to the <a href="http://www.hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/applications">Applications</a> page for further application
instructions. Macquarie University will advise the successful applicant of
entitlements at the time of scholarship offer.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold">Please quote the allocation number 2012090 on
your application</span>.</p></div></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/scholarships/hdr_scholarships_domestic_and_international">http://www.hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/scholarships/hdr_scholarships_domestic_and_international</a></div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>----------------------------------------------------------<br>Dr Amanda Wise<br>Senior Research Fellow<br>Department of Sociology</div>
<div>Macquarie University NSW 2109<br>Ph: +61 2 9850-8835<br>Mobile: 0412 497 206<br>Email: <a href="mailto:amanda.wise@mq.edu.au" target="_blank">amanda.wise@mq.edu.au</a></div>
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