Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science on Occupational Decline and Political Change (OCCPOL) University of Gothenburg in Sweden

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, within the Mistra CLEAN research programme. The project examines the links between institutional failure and environmental challenges, including corruption, policy and regulatory capture, environmental crime, accountability, and institutional resilience. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute mainly to work packages based at the University of Gothenburg, especially on vulnerability analysis and corruption risk...

The University of Gothenburg is advertising 1 doctoral student position in Human Geography at the Unit for Human Geography , Department of Economy and Society, School of Business, Economics and Law. The doctoral project is part of CLOSE – Consequences of Local Service Expansions , a research project examining the long-term social and economic consequences of introducing new neighbourhood services in Swedish cities and urban neighbourhoods. The project is strongly connected to themes in human geo...

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...

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...

Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez is announcing PhD openings in research on the economics of generative AI , counterfactuals in machine learning , and human-AI collaboration . The positions are connected to the ELLIS PhD Program and the MP-AIX program , with the work based in the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems . This is a strong fit for students interested in computer science , economics , statistics , and related AI/ML research. The post invites interested candidates to get in touch directly an...