The FDEF is happy to announce its participation in the DTU (Doctoral Training Unit) EICCA (Economic insecurity: causes, consequences and actions). Alongside Principal Investigator Conchita D’Ambrosio and other researchers from the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, four professors from the FDEF’s Department of Economics and Management, Vincent Anesi, Andreas Irmen, Pierre M. Picard and Skerdilajda Zanaj will collaborate to train social scientists interested in the quantitative analyses of the causes and consequences of Economic Insecurity for individual’s lives and society at large, as well as the understanding of the role that public policies play in mitigating or amplifying its size and impacts.
The DTU, funded by FNR’s PRIDE instrument, will assemble a total of 14 doctoral researcher positions, with four of these positions hosted within the FDEF. The students will benefit from the transdisciplinary nature of the project which brings together fields of economics, social sciences and cognitive and behavioural sciences to advance our understanding the role that Economic Insecurity plays in our society. Through developing a way to measure insecurity, examining the consequences of economic insecurity, finding its root causes and lastly, investigating public policy measures to moderate negative effects, doctoral students will develop skills necessary for carrying out PhD-level research.
Recruitment of doctoral candidates is ongoing
The DTU is set to launch in November 2024. Interested doctoral candidates are welcome to apply on the University recruitment website.
For more information about the DTU, including a description of all the PhD projects, visit the EICCA project page.
Supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (PRIDE/23/18689055/EICCA)