Fully Funded PhD in Political Science on Political Communication, Polarization, and Algorithmic Amplification at Lund University Lund University in Sweden

PhD student in Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. This opening is part of the research project “A Divisive Spiral? Elite Communication, Voter Engagement, and Algorithmic Amplification of Affective Polarization” , led by Professor Hanna Bäck at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. The project examines affective polarization , elite communication, voter engagement, and how algorithms and social media shape political attitudes. It uses large language models to analyze po...

Stockholm University’s Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) is offering a PhD fellowship for a Doctoral Candidate in Information Society, starting 1 February 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is part of the EU Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Doctoral Network Acting in Crisis: Understanding Social Complexity to improve Crisis Preparedness (SoCRISP), a multinational consortium training 15 doctoral candidates in advanced methods, theory, and transferable...

Umeå University (Sweden) is recruiting one to two PhD students in Statistics for the research project “Next-Generation Latent Variable Models for Social Data Science” at the Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE), Department of Statistics. The project focuses on statistical theory, methodology, and computational methods for complex social science data, with emphasis on latent variable models and their connections to modern machine learning . The research is motivated by applica...

LMU Munich’s Unit Digitalization and Political Behavior and the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science are advertising a PhD Researcher position focused on computational text analysis , democratic belief systems , political psychology , persuasion research , and large language models . The project sits at the intersection of political science, psychology, and computational social science. The position connects two DFG-funded projects: Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for D...

LMU Munich’s Unit Digitalization and Political Behavior and the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for a DFG-funded project on democratic resilience , political psychology , persuasion , and democratic attitudes . The project, “Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy” , studies why democracy faces growing challenges and tests communicative strategies to strengthen support for democracy among citizens whose support is wave...