Overview
'Transition to parenthood: International and national studies of norms and gender division of work at the life course transition to parenthood (APPARENT)'
The project is directed by Dr Daniela Grunow and financed by the European Research Council (ERC) in the framework of an ERC Starting Grant.
The project assesses contemporary parenting norms and practices and their diffusion in six European countries. The international collaboration includes Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Poland. The project develops a comparative framework to study prevalent motherhood and fatherhood norms, images, identities and behaviour in current societies. The focus is on how mothering and fathering is constructed by professionals, welfare states, and popular media, and will assess how cultural and institutional norms and images are perceived and realized by expecting and new parents.
In 4 subprojects this study investigates (1) How standards of 'good' mothering and fathering are perceived, shaped and disseminated by professionals (gynaecologists, midwives, family councils); (2) How welfare states, labour markets and family policies target at mothers and fathers roles as earners and care givers, and how this has changed in recent decades; (3) How images of mothers and fathers roles have been portrayed in print media from 1980 until 2010; (4) How (expecting) mothers and fathers perceive, embody and represent parenting norms and images in their own work and family roles; (5) How new parents divide paid and unpaid work and how these divisions shape career patterns over the life course; (6) How these patterns differ cross-nationally.
This project will be guided by the following central research questions:
1. What do contemporary motherhood and fatherhood norms look like? How are norms and images of male and female parenting roles evolving and changing in recent European societies? What are the central mechanisms and institutions involved in the creation and dissemination of parenting norms and standards?
2. How do expecting and new parents in different European countries perceive the standards created by medical and social experts, welfare states, and popular media, and to what extent do they embrace and live these standards? When do legal options to share care and paid work become 'real' options for new parents?
The aim of this project is to develop a contemporary sociology of adult sex roles and parenting norms: A theory of the social creation of parenting norms and a comprehensive framework to study empirically the change of men's and women's roles, identities and practices as earners and care givers in the early phase of family formation. The project is methodologically innovative in its aim to combine diverse quantitative and qualitative longitudinal data and methods. By combining expert interviews, policy analysis and content analysis of print media with analyses of qualitative and quantitative data on (nascent) parents, the four subprojects will address the diverse layers associated with changing gender roles and parenting norms over the adult life course.
Tasks and requirements:
PhD Project 1: Apparent NEWS - Portraying new parents in the paper
The main objective of this project is to look at the way new fathers and mothers have been represented in mass print media in all six countries, and how the apparent change of gender roles and parenting norms over the past decades came about. This project will consist of quantitative content analysis of advertisements and editorial content in mainstream and leftist daily news papers, between 1980 and 2010. It will compare not only cross-nationally, but also over time how parenting norms and standards - as disseminated in the media - have changed and whether these images converged across countries. A second objective of this project is to identify contemporary national profiles of 'good' mothers and fathers in the media, and to compare them with the features identified in the other subprojects, and also with the features of the traditional male breadwinner and female homemaker norm as portrayed in the 1950s. The study will also assesses which aspects of parenting these images address; how in particular fathers roles as carers and mothers roles as earners are portrayed; whether differences emerge (or diminish) between the 'life style' discourse of parenting in feuilletons, and the policy-related discourse in politics sections. This subproject will require development of a codebook that will capture quantifiable variables.
Tasks:
■Conducting research, publishing the results thereof in a dissertation and other publications
■Teaching in the field of social sciences for at least 10% of the time
■Participating in the AISSR PhD program, including following courses
■Participating in conferences and seminars
Requirements:
■Master's or Research Master's Degree in one of the social sciences (or expectation of completion in the near future)
■Affinity with quantitative and qualitative methods and techniques in the social sciences; basic skills in media analysis will be considered an advantage
■Willingness to give English-language presentations and to publish in the English language
■Language competencies in more than one of the languages spoken in the countries under study will be considered an advantage
PhD Project 2: Apparent ACTS - Actualizing new parenthood in everyday life
This project aims study how expectant and new parents perceive and embody the images, norms and ideals disseminated by health care professionals and by newspapers. It will assess under which conditions these norms about motherhood and fatherhood are perceived as important and when couples look for orientation elsewhere. Also, it will be studied if normative frames change after the birth of the child. Interviews with nascent parents (heterosexual cohabiting/married couples) (a) a few months before the expected birth of their first child and, (b) about one year after the birth, will be analyzed in comparative perspective, in collaboration with foreign researchers in all six countries. For some countries these data will be available already at the beginning of the project (Ger, Swe, Nl, It). This third project will deeply engage with gathering comparable qualitative data for Poland and the Czech Republic.
Tasks:
■Conducting research, publishing the results thereof in a dissertation and other publications
■Teaching in the field of social sciences for at least 10% of the time
■Participating in the AISSR PhD program, including following courses
■Participating in conferences and seminars
Requirements:
■Master's or Research Master's Degree in one of the social sciences (or expectation of completion in the near future)
■Affinity with qualitative methods and techniques in the social sciences
■Willingness to give English-language presentations and to publish in the English language
■Language competencies in Polish and/or Czech will be considered an advantage
Further information
Further enquiries concerning the project can be obtained from Dr Daniela Grunow (D.Grunow@uva.nl).
Appointment
The gross monthly salary will be €2042 in the first year and €2612 in the fourth year in case of a full-time position (38 hrs / week). Secondary working conditions at Dutch universities are attractive and include 8% holiday pay and 8.3% end of year bonus.
Job application
Application requirements: a letter explaining interest and commitment, a complete CV, contact details of at least two references and a list with subjects taken and obtained grades during university education.
Applicants should send their full application before 22 October 2010, by email to: application-soca-fmg@uva.nl
Emailed applications should bear the vacancy number in the subject line and the other documents as attachments.
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
'Transition to parenthood: International and national studies of norms and gender division of work at the life course transition to parenthood (APPARENT)'
The project is directed by Dr Daniela Grunow and financed by the European Research Council (ERC) in the framework of an ERC Starting Grant.
The project assesses contemporary parenting norms and practices and their diffusion in six European countries. The international collaboration includes Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Poland. The project develops a comparative framework to study prevalent motherhood and fatherhood norms, images, identities and behaviour in current societies. The focus is on how mothering and fathering is constructed by professionals, welfare states, and popular media, and will assess how cultural and institutional norms and images are perceived and realized by expecting and new parents.
In 4 subprojects this study investigates (1) How standards of 'good' mothering and fathering are perceived, shaped and disseminated by professionals (gynaecologists, midwives, family councils); (2) How welfare states, labour markets and family policies target at mothers and fathers roles as earners and care givers, and how this has changed in recent decades; (3) How images of mothers and fathers roles have been portrayed in print media from 1980 until 2010; (4) How (expecting) mothers and fathers perceive, embody and represent parenting norms and images in their own work and family roles; (5) How new parents divide paid and unpaid work and how these divisions shape career patterns over the life course; (6) How these patterns differ cross-nationally.
This project will be guided by the following central research questions:
1. What do contemporary motherhood and fatherhood norms look like? How are norms and images of male and female parenting roles evolving and changing in recent European societies? What are the central mechanisms and institutions involved in the creation and dissemination of parenting norms and standards?
2. How do expecting and new parents in different European countries perceive the standards created by medical and social experts, welfare states, and popular media, and to what extent do they embrace and live these standards? When do legal options to share care and paid work become 'real' options for new parents?
The aim of this project is to develop a contemporary sociology of adult sex roles and parenting norms: A theory of the social creation of parenting norms and a comprehensive framework to study empirically the change of men's and women's roles, identities and practices as earners and care givers in the early phase of family formation. The project is methodologically innovative in its aim to combine diverse quantitative and qualitative longitudinal data and methods. By combining expert interviews, policy analysis and content analysis of print media with analyses of qualitative and quantitative data on (nascent) parents, the four subprojects will address the diverse layers associated with changing gender roles and parenting norms over the adult life course.
Tasks and requirements:
PhD Project 1: Apparent NEWS - Portraying new parents in the paper
The main objective of this project is to look at the way new fathers and mothers have been represented in mass print media in all six countries, and how the apparent change of gender roles and parenting norms over the past decades came about. This project will consist of quantitative content analysis of advertisements and editorial content in mainstream and leftist daily news papers, between 1980 and 2010. It will compare not only cross-nationally, but also over time how parenting norms and standards - as disseminated in the media - have changed and whether these images converged across countries. A second objective of this project is to identify contemporary national profiles of 'good' mothers and fathers in the media, and to compare them with the features identified in the other subprojects, and also with the features of the traditional male breadwinner and female homemaker norm as portrayed in the 1950s. The study will also assesses which aspects of parenting these images address; how in particular fathers roles as carers and mothers roles as earners are portrayed; whether differences emerge (or diminish) between the 'life style' discourse of parenting in feuilletons, and the policy-related discourse in politics sections. This subproject will require development of a codebook that will capture quantifiable variables.
Tasks:
■Conducting research, publishing the results thereof in a dissertation and other publications
■Teaching in the field of social sciences for at least 10% of the time
■Participating in the AISSR PhD program, including following courses
■Participating in conferences and seminars
Requirements:
■Master's or Research Master's Degree in one of the social sciences (or expectation of completion in the near future)
■Affinity with quantitative and qualitative methods and techniques in the social sciences; basic skills in media analysis will be considered an advantage
■Willingness to give English-language presentations and to publish in the English language
■Language competencies in more than one of the languages spoken in the countries under study will be considered an advantage
PhD Project 2: Apparent ACTS - Actualizing new parenthood in everyday life
This project aims study how expectant and new parents perceive and embody the images, norms and ideals disseminated by health care professionals and by newspapers. It will assess under which conditions these norms about motherhood and fatherhood are perceived as important and when couples look for orientation elsewhere. Also, it will be studied if normative frames change after the birth of the child. Interviews with nascent parents (heterosexual cohabiting/married couples) (a) a few months before the expected birth of their first child and, (b) about one year after the birth, will be analyzed in comparative perspective, in collaboration with foreign researchers in all six countries. For some countries these data will be available already at the beginning of the project (Ger, Swe, Nl, It). This third project will deeply engage with gathering comparable qualitative data for Poland and the Czech Republic.
Tasks:
■Conducting research, publishing the results thereof in a dissertation and other publications
■Teaching in the field of social sciences for at least 10% of the time
■Participating in the AISSR PhD program, including following courses
■Participating in conferences and seminars
Requirements:
■Master's or Research Master's Degree in one of the social sciences (or expectation of completion in the near future)
■Affinity with qualitative methods and techniques in the social sciences
■Willingness to give English-language presentations and to publish in the English language
■Language competencies in Polish and/or Czech will be considered an advantage
Further information
Further enquiries concerning the project can be obtained from Dr Daniela Grunow (D.Grunow@uva.nl).
Appointment
The gross monthly salary will be €2042 in the first year and €2612 in the fourth year in case of a full-time position (38 hrs / week). Secondary working conditions at Dutch universities are attractive and include 8% holiday pay and 8.3% end of year bonus.
Job application
Application requirements: a letter explaining interest and commitment, a complete CV, contact details of at least two references and a list with subjects taken and obtained grades during university education.
Applicants should send their full application before 22 October 2010, by email to: application-soca-fmg@uva.nl
Emailed applications should bear the vacancy number in the subject line and the other documents as attachments.
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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