THE FINNISH DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN EDUCATION AND LEARNING (FiDPEL)

THE FINNISH DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN EDUCATION AND LEARNING (FiDPEL) is seeking candidates for 10 doctoral student positions. The Call for Applications is open from August 22nd to October 7th, 2011.

The doctoral programme is financed by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and the Academy of Finland. The duration of the doctoral programme is four years, starting from January 1st, 2012. Individual periods of doctoral student positions are determined on the basis of the stage of PhD research and the allowance available to the doctoral programme. The positions are placed at several universities in Finland. The salary will be based on the job demands chart for teaching and research staff and on the system of personal work performance in the salary system for universities. Doctoral students of FiDPEL can study their doctoral studies at all those Finnish universities which are involved in FiDPEL (Universities of Eastern Finland, Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Tampere, Turku and Oulu).

The doctoral programme is a multidisciplinary consortium that is divided into the following four subprogrammes:

Subprogramme of Comparative Research on Educational Policy, Economy and Assessment (CREPEA)
Director professor Risto Rinne, Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education (CELE), Department of Education, University of Turku, Finlandhttp://www.edu.utu.fi/ktl/cele/index_engl.htm

Subprogramme on Developmental Work Research and Adult Education (DWRAE)
Director professor Yrjö Engeström, Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning CRADLE, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finlandhttp://www.helsinki.fi/cradle/

Subprogramme on Education, Knowledge and Culture (EKC)
Director professor Leena Koski, Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu http://www.uef.fi/uef/yhteiskuntatieteiden-ja-kauppatieteiden-tiedekunta

Subprogramme on Learning, Learning Contexts and Teacher Education (LCTE)
Director professor Marja Vauras, Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku, Finland
http://www.edu.utu.fi/laitokset/tokl/en/

The descriptions of the subprogrammes and more information of the FiDPEL are available at http://www.edu.utu.fi/kasva/. The applicants may apply to one or two subprogrammes. They are asked to indicate the first- and second-preference programme in the application. Incomplete or late applications are not taken into consideration.

The call for applications with further information will be launched on August 22nd, 2011.