Funded PhD Studentships in Algorithmic Life for October 2027 Intake Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life

The UZH Department of Political Science (IPZ) is inviting applications for a three-year postdoctoral position in the research group of Fabrizio Gilardi at the University of Zurich . The appointment runs from January 2027 to December 2029 . The position combines independent and collaborative research on digital technology and politics , broadly defined, with some teaching at the BA and/or MA level . The post is especially relevant for candidates working in political science , computational social...

PhD opportunity at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC) for the NWO Vidi project “That’s Women’s Work!” on the transimperial history of women’s work / gendered labour (1600–1900) . The project combines archival research and computational text analysis to study how European colonial expansion shaped ideas about women’s work across colonies and European metropoles. The successful candidate will pursue an article-based PhD dissertation as ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, for a project titled Navigating Negativity: What is a Healthy News Diet? The position is based at the Centre for Journalism , Department of Political Science and Public Management, and focuses on how exposure to negative news affects people’s understanding of important societal issues, mental well-being, and news avoidance. The project is funded by the Velux Foundation and is a three-year full-time PhD scholarship . It is ...

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) at the University of Vienna is hiring a Senior Scientist (Postdoc) to contribute to Monitoring Electoral Democracy (MEDem) . The position sits in the Department of Communication and is aimed at candidates with experience in political communication , computational social science , manual and automated content analysis , and related research infrastructure work. Location: Vienna, Austria Employment: Full-time Duration: Initially 4 years, with the possi...

University of Oxford, Centre for Democratic Resilience, Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science and Text Analysis . The project focuses on building NLP/LLM pipelines to analyze German legal, regulatory, and political texts in order to track threats to academic freedom and institutional autonomy . The work supports evidence-based risk assessments for university leaders and policymakers and sits at the ...