University of Helsinki
Following the Center’s call for a doctoral student employment position funded by the Herlin Fund (Tiina ja Antti Herlinin Säätiö), we are pleased to announced that Mr Kangle Zhang has been awarded the position as of 1 August 2016. He will be working on a doctoral dissertation under the title: “Private Credit Rating in the Construction of Neoliberal Society” at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki.
In December 2015, the Center received a donation of 40 000€ from the (Tiina ja Antti Herlinin Säätiö). The purpose of this grant is to cover the salary of one PhD student for a year. A call for applications was circulated in April and May 2016. In response to this call we received 8 applications. All applications included a research plan, a work plan and a CV. The doctoral students who applied are enrolled in post-graduate programs at the University of Helsinki, University of Lapland and University of Turku.
In order to assess the applications, each Member University of the Center appointed a representative to the Selection Committee. The selection procedure began with the review of each applications by the members of the Committee. The members assessed the quality of the research plans and the competence of the candidates to carry out the project. By 9 June 2016, each member of the Committee shortlisted three to four candidates, whose qualifications and motivation were to be further assessed during interviews. The interviews took place on Monday, 13 June at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki. After interviewing the shortlisted applicants, the members of the selection committee agreed, that all candidates conduct relevant and promising research, yet Mr Kangle Zhang demonstrated the best competences to carry out his research project successfully and contribute to the further development of Sino-Finnish cooperation.