PhD, Work and career-related experiences of women from migrant backgrounds

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University of Melbourne

  • Career category: Research/ Data analysis
  • Job type: PhD
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Research
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 07/06/2024
  • Location: Australia
Migration
Project Summary

One fully funded project on the study of Work and career-related experiences of women from migrant backgrounds is available. This Joint PhD project will be primarily based at the University of Melbourne with a minimum 12-month stay at KU Leuven.


Degrees Available for this project
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Available Scholarships
The successful applicant will receive a scholarship package which includes a tuition fee waiver, living allowance, health insurance, and relocation support.
Project Details

Labour market participation rates of women from a migrant background remain low (Lee et al., 2022). They are often pushed into to lower quality jobs and more easily drop out of the workforce. Yet, there may also be more subtle relational and temporal dynamics that together lead to discouragement. Our aim is to study relational dynamics in the form of gender and racial micro-aggressions and temporal dynamics in influencing the career development of women from a migrant background. This ties in with the greater societal sensitivity for intersectionality, and with attempts to facilitate the access of migrant women to the labour market. We address this aim in three studies. In studies 1 and ..



Anticipated project start date
Tue Oct 01 2024
Offered by
Business Administration, Faculty of Business and Economics
in collaboration with KU Lueven
Location
Parkville



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