Guide for Applicants - External competition for tenured Senior Researcher,

Multidisciplinary Research The research conducted at INED aims to describe and understand the causes of changes taking place within populations in the areas of fertility, union formation and breakdown, mortality, mobility, and migration, and to evaluate the consequences of these changes. [...] While surveys continue to occupy a central role and with the increasing use of new data, the Institute is looking at the importance of two key strategies: firstly, adopting a critical approach to data and categories of analysis, and secondly, the significance of the historical approach. [...] The final selection committee publishes the name(s) of the successful applicant(s) based on: - The applicant’s written application - The minutes of the preliminary selection committee meeting - The preliminary selection committee’s report on the applicant. [...] The ranking established in the short-listing phase may change following the meeting of the final selection committee, which takes INED’s research priorities into consideration as well as the quality of the applicant(s). [...] After the competition has ended and for a month after the publication of the results, applicants may contact the chair of the preliminary selection committee to obtain information about the strengths and weaknesses of their application.