The COCOSO doctoral network recruits researchers who wish to work in a highly collaborative, international and mobile partnership between research and the field of Social Welfare.
The recruitment of Cocoso doctoral candidates is in progress, and will be finalized by October 2025.
Doctoral candidate 1 : Compared Perspectives On Co-Construction For People With Disabilities (Denmark)
Doctoral candidate 2 : Power, Gender And Participation In The Global History Of The Social Work Profession (Austria / Romania)
Doctoral candidate 3 : Cross-National Comparison Of Young People’s Understandings Of Co-Construction (Portugal / Spain)
Doctoral candidate 4 : Multi-Actor Co-Construction In Local Welfare policies. Challenges, and critical factors in the post-covid period (Portugal)
Doctoral candidate 5 : Co-Constructive Leadership Approach In Ngo Social Service Sectors (Poland / Portugal)
Doctoral candidate 6 : Social Services and Service Users in Family Foster Care Planning : Co-Designing and Co-Evaluating Long Term Placement (Greece)
Doctoral candidate 7 : Effective Dissemination Of Co-Construction Strategies (France)
Doctoral candidate 8 : Community Involvement In Combatting Stigma Of People With Mental Health Problems (Greece)
Doctoral candidate 9 : Co-Constructing Evaluation Of Services With Vulnerable People across Services (France)
Doctoral candidate 10 : Role Of Gender Factors In Co-Constructing Solutions With Homeless Citizens (Denmark)
Doctoral candidate 11: Lived Experience Advocacy In Child Protection (France)
Doctoral candidate 12: Digital Volunteerism: The Tool And Space Of New Forms Of Social Inclusion And Exclusion (Poland)
Doctoral candidate 13: How can Older Adults Participate in Co-Construction when Contact to Carers is Mediated through Technology? (Denmark / Italy)
Doctoral candidate 14 : Universal Access And Diversity In Co-Constructed Digital Disability Communities (Austria)
Doctoral candidate 15: Digital Tools as enablers of Co-Construction to support Crisis Management In Organisations (Portugal)
Fore more information, please download the presentation for candidates.
Also watch the online information session (please click to follow the link) recorded in February 2025.
According to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks program, researchers funded by Industrial Doctoral Networks must comply with the following two eligibility criteria:
- Educational Qualification: Applicants must not hold a doctoral degree at the date of their recruitment.
- Mobility Rule: Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting organization for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment date.
Profiles are advertised on Euraxess, and broadly advertised on web pages, social media, and mailing lists. 181 applications have been received as of 3rd of March 2025.
Each application is reviewed on eligibility criteria and adequation to profile by the Cocoso executive committee.
For each research project, eligible and adequate applications are assessed by an ad hoc recruitment committees consisting of the two supervisors, as well as 1 or 2 more members of the consortium.
Applications are shortlisted based on the following criteria:
- Academic background: grades and relevance of degree/thesis
- Relevant professional experience
- Motivation to join the COCOSO network
- Reflection on the PhD project
Shortlisted applicants are invited for oral interviews with the recruitment committee. A ranking is established and is communicated to applicants as soon as the first round of interviews for all research projects is over.