Position: Visiting Research Fellow

Host institution: Social Research Center at American University of Central Asia (www.src.auca.kg)

Period: From 2 months to 1 year

The Social Research Center (SRC) at American University of Central Asia (AUCA) is pleased to offer interested scholars (PhD students and post-doctoral fellows only) the opportunity to conduct research within the framework of its Visiting Research Fellowship Program at our Bishkek-based research center in Kyrgyzstan. The SRC is an integral part of AUCA, with the mission to promote long-term development of the principles and practice of democracy, rule of law, and social equality in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia through carrying out research and policy analysis.

Advantages and opportunities of the Foreign Research Fellowship Program at the SRC:

Ideal surroundings: work and conduct research at one of the leading universities in Central Asia, internationally recognized as a university based on the American liberal arts tradition of free and critical inquiry.

Beneficial support: benefit from interaction with the AUCA faculty members, local/foreign scholars and students.

Valuable networking: use our networking capacities to establish contacts with local research institutions, universities, local scholars, non-governmental organizations and governmental agencies in Kyrgyzstan.

Perfect working conditions: The SRC will provide an access to Internet, computers, printing, copying, faxing, and the university library resources.

Research Areas:

The SRC is broadly interested in the political and social development of Kyrgyzstan, with a particular focus on the following areas:
 - Migration: The impacts of external and internal migration on economic and
   social development (Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries)
 - Corruption (Kyrgyzstan)
 - Islam: political and social aspects (Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian
   countries)
 - Development of civil society organization in Kyrgyzstan

Interested scholars should:
 - Be PhD students or post-doctoral fellows
 - Offer a research project related to the research interests of SRC
 - Be willing to submit a research paper every 1-2 months of fellowship at SRC

Period: from one month to one year

Number of Fellowships: SRC can host up to five Research Fellows at a time.

How to apply>>>>