Applicants with a non-Danish Master’s degree will have their degree assessed by The Danish Agency for International Education to establish, if the Master’s degree is equivalent to a Danish Master’s degree. More information about The Danish Agency for International Education is available at: http://www.studyindenmark.dk/

Employment as a PhD student occurs pursuant to the applicable rules of the Faculty of Humanities, as well as between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). Under this agreement, the PhD student is obliged - without further remuneration - to carry out allotted work to an extent corresponding to a total of 840 working hours in the case of a three-year contract.

The PhD student will be working at the same department of the faculty as the supervisor. Daily presence at the department is expected.

Enrolment as a PhD student at the Faculty of Humanities’ Graduate School is a precondition for employment as a PhD student. A description of the PhD study programme is available at: http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/

Applications shall be submitted via the electronic application system efond: http://www.efond.dk/ku-hum/.

Do not submit any publications.
Application form and application guidelines on research proposal and required enclosures are available at the homepage: http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/PhD/Announcements/

A certified copy of the applicant’s Master’s Degree diploma needs to be submitted as one of the enclosures to the application. Certification shall be by a public authority such as the institution having issued the diploma or a public bureau specializing in diploma certification. The applicant may be asked to submit the originally certified copy of the Master’s Degree diploma after the application deadline.

If the MA diploma and/or examination records are in another language than English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish, please include a translation into either of these languages in your application.

The translation of diplomas/certificates and transcripts must be made by or approved by either:

a Danish state-authorized translator and interpreter or

the embassy or consulate of the country where the original document was issued or where the translation was made or

a Danish consulate/embassy.

Closing date for applications: 17 August 2010 at 12 noon (Central European time). No supplementary documents will be considered after this deadline.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Faculty of Humanities invites applications from all interested candidates regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin or religion.

For any further questions, please contact the PhD Centre (phdcenter@hum.ku.dk) tel. +45 3532 9223.