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PhD Opportunity - Towards Professional Epistemic Justice: Finance and Medicine

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Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Closing date
Feb 1, 2017

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Towards Professional Epistemic Justice: Finance and Medicine
PhD Studentship 2017–2021 (3 + 1 years)
University of Sheffield and University of Gröningen

‘Towards Professional Epistemic Justice: Finance and Medicine’ is a collaborative research project in applied epistemology and ethics between the University of Gröningen, the University of Sheffield and CUNY Graduate Center, sponsored by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The project is led by Profs Boudewijn de Bruin (Gröningen) and Miranda Fricker (CUNY Graduate Center/Sheffield), and includes one postdoctoral researcher based primarily in New York (Dr Elianna Fetterolf) and two PhD students based in Sheffield (two vacancies).

The PhD studentship extends from 1 September 2017 to 31 July 2021. The successful candidate will spend three years pursuing research for the Sheffield PhD in Philosophy, and they will be expected to visit Gröningen during their second year. They may also visit CUNY Graduate Center in New York, though candidates should be aware that there is not at present any extra funding secured for those purposes. After completion of the Sheffield PhD at the end of the third year, they will spend their fourth year in Gröningen pursuing research leading to a second PhD in Philosophy or in Economics from the University of Gröningen, as appropriate.

PhD supervision will be shared between Profs de Bruin and Fricker, with further supervisory support given by colleagues at Sheffield who specialise in areas directly relevant to the candidate’s research proposal. Details of the overall project are appended to this document and/or available on request from Prof Fricker mfricker@gc.cuny.edu

Requirements
The studentship will be awarded on a competitive basis, and are open to students of any nationality. Normally, candidates should have completed a minimum of two years’ full-time undergraduate study in Philosophy, and have gained a good Upper Second Class BA Honours Degree (67%) or the equivalent (US GPA 3.6). Candidates should also have completed a Master’s course (or equivalent) in Philosophy, with a substantial research component, achieving a grade equivalent to 67%. It is desirable, though by no means essential, that candidates also have some knowledge of Finance, or Medicine, respectively.

Candidates whose first language is not English are required to pass an English test at a high level prior to their admission being confirmed. For details regarding English Language requirements please see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/info/englang

Application Process
Candidates should submit an application for the Sheffield PhD via the Prospective Graduate Students webpage
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/prospectivepostgraduates/applying
But applicants should also flag on their application that they are seeking to be considered for this funded place by using the heading ‘Towards Professional Epistemic Justice studentship’. Applying for a studentship in this project does not preclude applicants from applying for other sources of funding for their PhD.
In their online research proposal (900-1000 words), candidates should make clear how their background and interests make them a suitable candidate for the Towards Professional Epistemic Justice project, and explain the specific lines of enquiry they would wish to pursue within the framework of the project and the branch of it (epistemic justice and finance, or epistemic justice and medicine) in which they wish to broadly situate their thesis. Candidates are free to propose any project they see as broadly fitting these themes, and it is envisaged that topics covered might include, for instance, the structure of virtue and/or vice, virtues of epistemic justice, individual and collective or institutional virtues and vices, procedural remedies for biased outcomes, overcoming implicit bias, self-trust, self-fulfilling testimonial injustice, recognition theory, broader issues of justice and injustice in medicine and/or finance, and so on. It is an open brief within the broad areas.

DEADLINE: Candidates must submit their applications online by midnight GMT on Wednesday 1st February 2017.

Candidates must also send an email message to Professor Fricker notifying her that an application has been submitted and giving her the application number. Her email address is mfricker@gc.cuny.edu. Please enter ‘Towards Professional Epistemic Justice studentship’ in the subject line of the email message.
Interviews (probably by Skype or FaceTime) will be held by arrangement in March 2017.

For further information, please contact Prof Miranda Fricker (mfricker@gc.cuny.edu) and/or Prof Boudewijn de Bruin (b.p.de.bruin@rug.nl).

Funding Notes

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The PhD student will receive funding from 1 September 2017 to 31 July 2021. Gross figures are €28,498 (Year 1), €33,201 (Year 2), €34,778 (Year 3) and €31,245 (Year 4 until 31 July 2021), and are subject to Dutch tax law. The student is expected to use these funds to help provide for their maintenance and to pay their course fees at Sheffield (there are none at Gröningen).

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