ESR1: Territorial Mobility and socio-spatial polarisation in Romania and Hungary (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

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Host: Babeş-Bolyai-University, Cluj-Napoca/Romania

1 PhD position, full-time

Duration: September 2014 – August 2017

Spatial perceptions and relations influence regional mobility while at the same time mobility constitutes and reproduces such perceptions and relations. Adopting a New Economic Geography framework, the project develops a multi-level perspective on migration processes, aiming at understanding the interdependencies between the spatial levels in more detail. Using the cases of Romania and Hungary, the forms and intensity of territorial mobility processes (migration and commuting) will be analysed and the contribution of territorial mobility to agglomeration and deglomeration processes determined. Furthermore, a typology for the areas involved with special focus on polarization and peripheralisation will be developed.

In this project, secondments are foreseen at Geomedia in Tartu/Estonia, the Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig/Germany and the Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Békéscsaba/Hungary.

The fellow will be integrated in the PhD training programme on Human and Regional Geography of the Babeş-Bolyai-University.

Tasks:

–          Development of a database model for indicators at micro-level, as a new approach to measure territorial                cohesion and analyse regional disparities;

–          Evaluation of statistical data series for the evolution of internal and international migration;

–          Measurement of the commuting patterns;

–          Evaluation of the contribution of migration processes to the spatial agglomeration/deglomeration

Requirements:

–          masters’ degree in social sciences, geography or another discipline corresponding to the topic of the                        project

–          good competences in statistics

–          fluent in English, preferably good knowledge of Romanian

–          Hungarian language skills will be an asset

–          good knowledge of IT-based communication tools

–          readiness to participate in secondments, conferences and workshops

–          excellent communication skills, capacity for teamwork, flexibility and an interest in interdisciplinary                             research

The fellow should contribute to the outreach of the project, especially by:

–          elaboration of a PhD thesis

–          participation in project and WP monographs, joint publications in high ranked journals

–          active participation at scientific conferences, policy workshops etc. at national and EU level

–          participation in media communication, in development of a web-based glossary, in creation of video clips                and podcasts and in spreading project information on EU level using European Commissions’                                      communication tools

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