Postdoctoral Research

The Institute "Mediterranean Societies in Transition" (SoMuM) is conceived as a pole of convergence of research and training skills in Humanities and Social Sciences. Post-doctoral research contributes to the construction of this strong link between research and training in the field of Mediterranean Studies.

Within the framework of its partnership relations, the Institute co-finances postdoctoral contracts, thus formalizing an institutional and sustainable collaboration with academic, socio-economic, cultural or civil society stakeholders. A first collaboration was born with the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean, allowing a first recruitment of postdoctoral students as soon as the Institute was launched in 2020. This first collaboration paves the way for other partnerships between SoMuM and academic/non-academic actors, with a view to reconciling three of the Institute's objectives:

• Inventing a new form of coordination between research, teaching and innovation
• Establishing a partnership with socio-economic and cultural actors, based on increased sharing of resources and convergence of our objectives.
• Developing research anchored in the field and connected to national and local actors.

On the basis of one to two-year contracts, SoMuM wishes to encourage the recruitment of post-doctoral students in one of the Institute's three scientific areas: 1. Transitions, lasting Destabilisation and Crises; 2. Dynamics, Circulation, Cultural Heritage; 3. Territorial recomposition and interactions.

Selected candidates benefit from a double attachment: to the co-financing partner organisation and to one of the laboratories within the SoMuM perimeter. Candidates are recruited at a local, national and international level. Indeed, the objectives of developing a research of excellence, innovation, and interdisciplinarity on the current challenges of the Mediterranean intersects the requirements of a high level training, international and open to the socio-economic world.