PhD Position for the ERC-funded project TRACES (Terrorism, Race and Embodied Security) full-time, 4 years

The research project is led by Prof. Dr. Ahmed Ajil and focuses on counterterrorism policies and practices in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium. It consists of the following three parts:
First: analysis of criminal and administrative case law and soft preventive measures (PVE) adopting a quantitative and qualitative approach.
Second: analysis of power dynamics and social categories produced through these instruments and confronting these insights with the views of practitioners in the three countries (semi-structured interviews).
Third: analysis of the impacts of counterterrorism measures using ethnographic interviews with directly affected individuals, focus groups with activists and civil society, as well as courtroom ethnography.