The Berlin University Alliance is a consortium consisting of three major Berlin universities –Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin – and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, established to shape research and education in Berlin. The four partners joined forces to further develop Berlin as a research hub with international drawing power. Together, around 1,700 professors, 100,000 students, 12,000 doctoral students and 26,000 employees research, teach, learn and work in the Alliance.
The Berlin University Alliance is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the State of Berlin under the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder.
Call for Proposals:
Junior Research Group "Research Quality in and across Disciplines" in the topic area Research Quality and Open Science
Reference: Rf. 312
We are looking for an outstanding early career researcher, national or international, who has already gathered profound scientific experience after their doctorate and who would now like to assume the leadership for a Junior Research Group at one of the Berlin University Alliance’s partner institutions.
The hereby advertised Junior Research Group "Research Quality in and across Disciplines" will provide, over a funding period of four years, a theoretical and empirical framework that allows to better grasp the multifaceted construct of research quality in consideration of disciplinary particularities. To this aim relevant dimensions of research quality are to be identified and criteria for their analysis and assessment shall be developed and operationalized. The Research Group’s activities will form a foundation for future processes of quality assurance and serve the development of standards for the research process. The Junior Research Group will contribute to the long-term improvement of research quality at the partner institutions of the Berlin University Alliance and beyond and also help establish the creation of an “error culture”.
The Junior Research Group is staffed with a postdoctoral group leader and additional scientific and non-scientific personnel. (conf. "Facts"). Material costs amounting to 20.000 Euro per year can be asserted. The call addresses researchers of all disciplines.
Denomination
Call: Junior Research Group „Digital Methods and Research Quality“ of the Objective 3 – Advancing Research Quality and Value der Berlin University Alliance.
For detailed information and application requirements see:
https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/commitments/research-quality/jrg-digital/index.htmll
Application deadline:
1. August 2021
Earliest start of funding
1. December 2021
Target audience/Eligibility
International researchers with a doctorate whose degree was awarded no more than 4 years ago.
Deviations from this threshold are possible in exceptional cases (childcare or nursing periods, professional activity outside the research sector)
Funding Period
4 years, 2 months
Funding for
Personnel and material costs
Funding amount
- Personnel: includes the position of a junior research group leader, up to 1.5 FTE of research assistants and up to 0.5 FTE of administrative staff
- Material costs: up to 20.000 Euro p.a.
Contact
For the purpose of safeguarding Gender Equality and Diversity, applications from female researchers as well as other members of underrepresented groups in academia (people with diversity attributes such as disabilities, migration backgrounds, first-generation researchers etc.) are particularly welcome.