2 doctoral students for the SNSF project Social Work in Juvenile Criminal Investigation

PhD @Bern University of Applied Sciences posted 3 days ago

Job Description

First of all, some of our plus points
  • Great freedom in arranging working hours.
  • Workplace in a top location with very good accessibility.
  • A “colorful bunch” of people with very different biographies, views and experiences awaits you.
  • Work with bright minds from different professional fields who, like you, want to make a difference.
  • Collaboration in a socially and professionally highly relevant subject area as well as integration into a stimulating and supportive team with supervision by the project management

 Even more strong reasons for the BFH

What you do here
  • Participate in the project “Punish, Protect, Educate? Perspectives on Case-Based Measure-Finding in Juvenile Criminal Investigations .” The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and will run for four years.
  • As part of your project, you are aiming for a doctorate at a Swiss university. We can offer you cooperation and supervision opportunities for this.
  • Conduct interviews with social workers, lawyers, young people and parents, prepare them for analysis and evaluate them
  • Publish scientific articles, participate in conferences and exchange ideas in an interdisciplinary network

The initial interviews will take place on June 23/24, and the second interviews on July 7/8.

What you ideally bring with you
  • Master’s degree in social work, education or social sciences
  • Solid knowledge of qualitative social research – especially interviewing – and interest in acquiring specific knowledge of perspective-triangulating interview research
  • Interest in professional theoretical questions of social work as well as in the interdisciplinary field of juvenile criminal justice
  • Very good knowledge of German and ideally very good knowledge of French (some of the interviews will be conducted in French-speaking Switzerland), knowledge of other foreign languages ​​is desirable
  • Strong analytical skills, structured and independent working style

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