Post-doctoral Fellow in Socio-Economic Inequality in Asia The University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong

Fully funded PhD position on AI, political economy, welfare state politics, and social policy at the University of Lucerne (ZIBR), starting in 2027. The project is part of ERC Starting Grant (Re)distributive Politics after the AI Revolution (REPAIR) . It studies how artificial intelligence is reshaping welfare state politics across OECD countries, including how political actors respond to AI-driven labor market change and which social policies and reforms citizens support. This opening is for a ...

PhD position at the Institute of Law and Economics (ILE-HSG), University of St. Gallen, in AI governance and regulatory foresight . The project examines national AI regulatory portfolios, instrument mixes, predictability of regulatory environments, and early warnings of policy misfit. The doctoral researcher will help develop an openly available dataset, codebook, and an LLM-assisted methodology for analysing EU and national regulation. The position is embedded in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Acti...

IE University’s School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs (SPEGA) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC-funded project (DIS)EMPOWER , led by Professor Michael Becher . The project studies political economy , automation , AI , robots , labor politics , and how technological change affects worker power in the workplace and in democratic politics. This is a four-year postdoctoral position with an option to extend by one year. The role is 100% research-focused and includes a compe...

The Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg is inviting applications for a postdoctoral fellow in Political Science within the ERC Advanced Grant project Dying Occupations and Political Change (OCCPOL) , led by Professor Johannes Lindvall . The project studies how the decline and disappearance of occupations shape political participation , political opinions , and party choices in democracies. The postdoc will contribute to a major comparative data resource covering occup...

University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) are inviting applications for a 4-year PhD studentship in Population Studies . This is a joint doctoral opportunity between the HKU Faculty of Social Sciences / HKU Research Hub of Population Studies and the MPIDR Department of Digital and Computational Demography. The project is broad and not limited to a single topic. Applicants are encouraged to propose population-related research aligned with the stre...