PROPOSED FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The purpose of The Center of Excellence for Gender and Women’s Studies is to gather all the Sabancı University members who are interested in gender and women’s studies under an umbrella organisation for collaboration, networking and research opportunities. The Center intends not only to promote the widespread recognition and increased effectiveness of existing research and activities, but also to allow interdisciplinary collaboration, as well as the initiation and support of new projects in the gender and women’s studies fields.
The Gender and Women’s Studies Forum, shortly known as the Gender Forum, which was founded in March 2010 and has been awarded the status of center of excellence in April 2015, is open to all Sabancı University academic and administrative employees, students, and alumni. Since its establishment, the interdisciplinary and flexible structure of the Gender Forum that is supported by different faculties and programs of Sabancı University has realized new and diverse projects, both academic and non-academic, including community outreach and awareness-raising programs.
The Gender Forum has also provided institutional support for various efforts against discrimination and gender inequality and enabled their implementation. It has established itself as a center of research, project development, and community involvement, open to innovative ideas and willing to collaborate and form partnerships with international and national institutions. Since 2010, the Gender Forum has organised a number of conferences, ranging from women photographers to gendered memories of war, and conducted original awareness and outreach projects with high school teachers, white- and blue-collar workers, business executives, and university students.
http://genderforum.sabanciuniv.edu/en/conferences
The main research and outreach areas of the Center of Excellence for Gender and Women’s Studies are:
- Gender and education
- Gender in science and academia, with a special focus on gender equality in the academia
- Gender-based violence
- Gender and sexuality
- Gender, politics and cultural memory
- Gender and literature
EXPECTED PROFILE
The Gender Forum will welcome a fellow who is interested and experienced in research and civil society work in the field of gender. The fellow would be expected to support the ongoing projects and activities as a member of the Gender Forum team. If the fellow is interested in conducting their own research project in one of the research areas of the Gender Forum, that would also be supported.
Proposed fellowship activity for current projects and activities:
- Supporting the research of Curious Steps Project on gender, memory and space; develop new stories and locations perhaps around Armenian memory of Istanbul
http://genderforum.sabanciuniv.edu/en/curious-steps
http://cinsadimlar.org/ - Supporting the organisation of Gender & Peace Conference (Honoring Cynthia Cockburn), International Women’s Day, gender awareness outreach campaigns on and off campus
http://genderforum.sabanciuniv.edu/en - Supporting the research and awareness campaigns of “Business against domestic violence”
- Supporting the research on gender equality in the academia and developing a gender-action plan
The Gender Forum will welcome a fellow who is interested and experienced in research and civil society work in the field of gender. The fellow is expected to be a graduate student, postdoctoral researcher or visiting academic from a university in Armenia or a feminist-activist scholar from a civil society organisation. Competency in English is required.
CONDITIONS OF THE FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The Gender Forum is based in the main Tuzla campus of Sabanci University and is open from 9am to 5pm. Conditions of the fellowship will be determined in consideration of the academic calendar, timetable of the projects the fellow will be contributing to, as well as the needs of the fellow. Weekends are usually off unless there is a conference or a project activity (especially the Curious Steps project requires some weekend meetings). Weekend activity hours will be substituted with time off during the week.
PROPOSED TIME FOR THE FELLOWSHIP (JANUARY – JUNE 2017)
4 to 6 months between January – June 2017