Postdoc in Educational Sociology and Educational Inequality University of Bern in Switzerland

Two PhD positions are open in an interdisciplinary project on health disparities among migration-related populations in Switzerland . The project combines migration studies and public health to examine mental and physical health outcomes, access barriers, discrimination, social determinants of health, and policy contexts. The positions are hosted by the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute at the University of Zurich , in collaboration with the University of Neuchâtel and the UZH...

ETH Zurich is advertising a doctoral position on cognitive and moral heuristics in lay people’s reactions to climate change adaptation . The project sits at the intersection of psychology , environmental science , social sciences , and climate change adaptation , with a focus on how mental shortcuts shape risk perception, moral considerations, private adaptation behavior, and public support for technologies and regulations. The doctoral thesis aims to generate insights into how cognitive heurist...

Marvin Reuter, Junior Professor for Sociology, esp. Work and Health, is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for the University of Bamberg, Germany, within the new ERC Starting Grant project FIELDS – Fields of Education as New Drivers of Health Inequalities . The role is ideal for a quantitative social or health scientist with experience in longitudinal/panel data analysis and an interest in social inequalities in health , education , and the life course . The project works with six major intern...

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 ...

Two PhD openings are available in health disparities among migration-related populations in Switzerland , jointly linked to the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI), University of Zürich and the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM), University of Neuchâtel . The positions are supervised by Prof. Oliver Hämmig (Zürich) and Prof. Didier Ruedin (Neuchâtel). The research themes are: Position 1 in Neuchâtel, focusing on access barriers, language hurdles, and d...