My winning MSCA Proposal - AFFECTIVE-PRS

In the spirit of collegiality and transparency, I’ve made my successful MSCA proposal (PART B-1, 10 pages) available as Open Access. I hope it serves as a helpful example for anyone considering submitting their own application. The proposal was submitted in October 2021 and received a score of 98.60% (if I recall correctly). Best of luck with your own proposal! ABSTRACT: private rental sectors, where informal transactions increase risks and hide vulnerability away from state regulatory gaze - as the Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly exposed across much of the globe. Taking the post-communist context as an example of an emerging and hidden PRS and drawing on a specific view of home as assemblage of materials, money, relations and affects, this research project aims to: Understand a hidden social world, by asking why tenants and landlords engage in the sector, whether their practices permit making a private tenancy home, and how they construct ideas of power, risk and trust; Nuance existing concepts of space and propose new concepts of time as they unfold in a privately rented home; Inform the national and international debate on PRS regulation. To achieve its aims, the proposal takes a qualitative multi-disciplinary approach, creating synergies between methods developed from meta-ethnography (critical interpretative synthesis), sociology and visual studies (qualitative questionnaires and photo-elicitation interviews), and public policy (scenario building). Through its focus on rental housing, a mechanism that generates important inequalities of wealth, health and wellbeing, the project aligns with the European Union strategy of creating a more resilient and inclusive society, and its concern for addressing inequalities. CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101059188?isPreviewer=1 WEBSITE: https://unibuc.ro/cercetare/promovarea-rezultatelor-cercetarii/proiecte-de-cercetare/proiecte-cu-finantare-internationala/affective-prs/