The Millennium Nucleus DATA JUSTA (NCS2024_69) invites applications for a postdoctoral position open to Chilean and international researchers. The position involves conducting research, engaging with the community, providing training, and contributing to knowledge transfer within the framework of the project. Start date: September 2025.
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Psychological First Aid in Social Research: Tools to Care for the People We Do Research With and for Ourselves
In preparation for the fieldwork, the Data Justa research team organized a workshop to strengthen the skills needed to handle critical situations involving the emotional impact that may arise during interviews with people who work with victims.
[CERRADO] LLAMADO A AYUDANTES DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y GESTIÓN
The Millennium Nucleus DATA JUSTA (NCS2024_69) seeks to recruit graduates and students from their fourth year onwards as research assistants, supporting the project in the areas of research and management. Start date: second half of April 2025.
CALL FOR POSTGRADUATE THESIS STUDENTS
The Millennium Nucleus DATA JUSTA (NCS2024_69) invites students enrolled in national master's programs accredited by the CNA, who are beginning their thesis process, to apply to complete their thesis within the Data Justa framework and have it approved during 2026.
CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE THESIS STUDENTS
The Millennium Nucleus DATA JUSTA (NCS2024_69) invites undergraduate students from universities of the Council of Rectors to apply to complete their thesis or research project leading to a bachelor's or professional degree during the academic year 2025, with a deadline of January 2026.
The DATA JUSTA Millennium Nucleus will carry out an in-depth examination of the knowledge infrastructures currently used by the Chilean state in its management of victims of gross human rights violations. Using critical theories and ethnographic methods, the project will analyze the knowledge the state produces about these events and how that knowledge shapes the responses it offers to ‘victimized’ citizens.
Oriana Bernasconi and the awarding of the Millennium Nucleus Fund for Human Rights Research
Oriana Bernasconi, PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics, researcher and academic at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, is leading the project “Millennium Nucleus for Research on Human Rights Violations Data Production and Use by the State (DATA JUSTA),” which received funding from the Millennium Nucleus of Social Sciences of the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID). The project also includes academic Elizabeth Lira, National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2017, and director of the UAH Human Rights Center.
Four researchers from UAH Sociology are part of winning projects in the Millennium Nucleus Social Sciences competition.
On August 20, the results of the 2024 Millennium Nucleus Competition for Social Sciences were announced. Three projects submitted by researchers from the Department of Sociology at Alberto Hurtado University were awarded from a total of nine.