Thirteen (13) PhD Positions, Innovative Training Network Privacy & Usability, Europe & Israel (2016)

With the rapid accumulation and processing of personal data by numerous organizations, it is of paramount importance to protect people from adverse uses of their data, while allowing them to enjoy the benefits the use of these data can possibly provide. This is the question of protecting citizens’ privacy, while enabling them to make informed decisions regarding their actions with privacy implications.

The Privacy & Us innovative training network will train thirteen creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early stage researchers (ESRs) to be able to reason, design and develop novel solutions to questions related to the protection of citizens’ privacy, considering the multidisciplinary and intersectoral aspects of the issue. ESRs will be trained to face both current and future challenges in the area of privacy and usability. Privacy & Us offers a combination of research-related and transferable competence skills that will enhance the career perspectives of the ESRs in both the academic and non-academic sectors.

The ESRs will receive comprehensive training and engage in intersectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration. Through this collaborative effort, the project will make a significant contribution and impact to the ESRs future careers. It will also contribute to shaping future privacy policies and practices in Europe and will significantly advance the state of the art in privacy and usability research.

Studentships are not restricted to EU citizens, however, applicants cannot have resided for more than 12 months over the past 3 years in the country of the host organisation by August 2016. For example: if you have studied in Sweden for the past 12 months, you cannot apply to the positions announced by KAU (but you are eligible to all others); if by August 2016 you have been living in the UK only for the last 9 months, you are eligible to positions available at UCL.

Studentships are restricted to Early Stage Researcher (ESR), defined as candidates that are at the time of recruitment in the first four years of their research careers, which is measured from the date when they have obtained their degrees, which entitle them to enroll for a PhD program.

Candidates should demonstrate high ability to understand and express themselves very well in both written and spoken English in order to derive the full benefit from the network training.

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