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[AUDITORY] Call for Doctoral Student: “Creative Cognition in Music", Graz, Austria



Call for Doctoral Student: “Creative Cognition in Music", Graz, Austria

 

The Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria, offers one fully-funded doctoral fellowship on the topic of Musical Creativity for a period of three years. The successful applicant will enrol in the Doctorate of Philosophy program in the Faculty of Humanities, will be supervised by Dr. Andrea Schiavio, and will contribute to a collaborative project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The project, led by Schiavio, explores creative cognition in the contexts of musical performance, composition, and learning.

 

Details of the contract

- 100% employment contract funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: P32460 - “Together in Music. Creative tools for music performance, education, and composition”

- starting date: 1 October 2020

 

Prerequisites

- Applicants are expected to hold (or about to obtain) an excellent Master’s degree in music, musicology, cognitive sciences, psychology, neuroscience, or relevant discipline

- Applicants are expected to have hands-on experience with empirical research and data analysis.         

- Excellent English proficiency is compulsory. Basic knowledge of German desirable.

 

Applications shall include

- CV

- Motivation letter (explaining your suitability for the project)

- PhD proposal: max. 3000 words (written in English, including questions, objectives, methods).

- Optional: Master’s thesis, or draft of thesis, or thesis proposal, or draft journal submission (preferably in English, but at least with English title and abstract)

 

Deadline for applications: 15.04.2020 (extended)

To apply, please send via email all material, in one cumulative PDF file, to Dr. Andrea Schiavio (andrea.schiavio@xxxxxxxxxxx). Please write “PhD Application Musical Creativity” in the subject line.

 

Further information:

- about the project: https://sites.google.com/view/musicalcreativity/home

- about the Centre for Systematic Musicology: https://systematische-musikwissenschaft.uni-graz.at/en/about/

- about the supervisor: https://www.andreaschiavio.com/