social sciences
Causal Effects of Brevity on Style and Success in Social Media - Faculty of Informatics - Open lecture of the course Argumentation in Conflict Resolution Visiting Alumni: Loredana Padurean, Associate Dean, Asia School of Business «Quel ramo del lago di Como...».
The western corn rootworm, one of the world's most damaging maize pests, can use plant defense compounds to defend itself against its own natural enemies, so-called entomopathogenic nematodes.
If one turns a stone over in a river or stream, it swarms with tiny animals: caddisflies, water beetles, freshwater shrimp, and snails. The invertebrates living on the beds of water bodies that can be seen with the naked eye, called macroinvertebrates, are rather unimposing, but for science and the protection of surface waters they are of great importance.
UNIGE researchers have been analysing the rise in healthy life expectancy in Switzerland since 1990 and measuring the differences based on an individual's level of education.
Selected Jobs
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei, Münster
PhD position on Advanced optical spectroscopy of quantum nanomaterials Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ
Organisations- und Wirtschaftssoziologie Doktorandin / Doktorand University of Zurich
CAS ETH in Naturgefahren-Risikomanagement (CAS ETH NGRM) Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ
MAS ETH in Architecture, Real Estate, Construction (MAS ETH ARC) Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ
MAS ETH in Gesamtprojektleitung Bau (MAS ETH GPB) Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ
MAS ETH in Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (MAS ETH GTA) Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ
Research
- The Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences (FORS) provides services to conduct research and to publish and disseminate research findings in the social sciences. The Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences publish a complete inventory of Swiss social research. It is located in the University of Lausanne.
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The program IRIS (Intégration, Régulation et Innovation Sociales) is a research and postgraduate education program. It is a part of the pool SVS (Science, Vie et Société) of the University of Lausanne, Geneva and of the EPFL. It associates scientists and researchers in human and social sciences.
Funding possibilities
- The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is Switzerland’s leading provider of scientific research funding and support also the research in humanities and social sciences. Any researcher working in Switzerland can ask for a grant. SNSF project funding grants cover direct research costs (staff salaries, materials, travel costs etc.).
Organisations
- The Academy for the humanities and the social sciences is the umbrella organisation for the humanities and social sciences. It groups approximately 60 scientific societies which represent the wide spectre of the disciplines of the human and social sciences. Its mission ist to represent the interests of the human and social sciences, to put in network the disciplines and to promote the new subjects of scientific importance.
Last job offers
- Health - 6.12
Co-Leiter / Innen Bachelorstudiengang Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention (2 x 80-100 %) - Interdisciplinary - 6.12
Collaborateur / Trice Scientifique à 60% - Life Sciences - 5.12
Research Associate in Synthetic Biology & Enzymology: Discovery and Engineering New Biosynthetic Pathways to Next Generation... - Continuing Education - 5.12
Professor/in Organisation und Change Management (80–100 %) - Law - 5.12
Doktorand / Doktorandin Straf- und Strafprozessrecht (50-60%) für eine Dauer von 2-4 Jahren - Criminology/Forensics - 4.12
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) - Chemistry - 7.12
Maître assistant-e - Materials Science - 6.12
Technicien/ne de surfaces