Postdoctoral Position in Empirical Computational Ethics, STS, and Responsible AI at Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany

Open call for postdoctoral to senior-level fellowships in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science and technology at RWTH Aachen University . The fellowship period starts in October 2027 and can run for up to twelve months . This opportunity is aimed at researchers working in history of science , philosophy of science , sociology of science , and broader science and technology studies . The post does not list detailed eligibility criteria, funding amount, or other benefits in the text p...

This PhD position is based at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. The project sits at the intersection of sociology, ethnography, Science and Technology Studies, and digital infrastructure research, and it focuses on how digital identity technologies are reshaping security culture, trust, power, and everyday social life. The successful candidate will work as part of the interdisciplinary project Cryptology a...

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is recruiting a Postdoc / Research Scientist (m/f/d) for the Kinship Inequalities Research Group in Rostock, Germany . This is a full-time, 3-year research position focused on kinship demography , with interdisciplinary links to demography, sociology, anthropology, mathematics, statistics, computer science, and biology . The group, led by Diego Alburez-Gutierrez , works on kin availability, kin loss, family composition, generational overl...

Postdoctoral researcher position at the Ethics Laboratory of the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS , University of Tübingen , Germany. The role sits at the intersection of ethics , philosophy , research ethics , field ethics , and the ethics of science, with strong relevance to human origins , repatriation , decolonization , and prehistory. The lab develops ethical standards and best practices for research in human origins and supports ethical reflection across a multidisciplinary cluster comb...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is recruiting two doctoral researchers for the Cluster of Excellence “Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining.” The positions are embedded in the Junior Research Group “Imaginaries of Democracy: Histories, Practices, and Global Perspectives,” led by Sara Gebh. The group investigates how alternative imaginaries of democracy emerge, change, and become politically effective. Its interdisciplinary approach asks where and how democracy is imagined di...