Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science and Text Analysis at the University of Oxford University of Oxford in United Kingdom

University of Oxford Faculty of Law is advertising a Postdoctoral Researcher position for the HuRiEE project at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies . The project examines human rights mobilisation , claims-making before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) , and how these processes shape societies in Eastern Europe and Russia. The successful candidate will work on mixed-methods analysis of qualitative and quantitative data collected in earlier project phases, contribute to at least two high...

TU Dresden’s Center for Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) is advertising a full PhD / Research Associate position in Computational Social Science within the Research Group Computational Social Sciences. The project, TRACE: Transparent Research on Algorithmic Content Exposure in Europe , is funded by the Mercator Foundation and focuses on the societal impact of digitalization, especially how platform algorithms shape information propagation, content dynamics, political behavior, democracy, and offline...

PhD opening at the University of Southern Denmark for a project on computational social science , automated content analysis , and the study of negative news , news avoidance , and mental well-being . The position is part of the research project “Navigating Negativity: What Is a Healthy News Diet?” , which investigates when exposure to negative news helps people understand important societal issues and when it may contribute to harm and avoidance. The PhD student will analyze news coverage acros...

Leibniz University Hannover is advertising two positions at the Chair of Public Administration and Public Policy, Institute of Political Science. The research group studies how public administration interacts with citizens, how artificial intelligence changes that interaction, and how administrative action affects society. Methods mentioned include computational text analysis , survey research , and field cooperation with public agencies . The openings are for doctoral or post-doctoral candidate...

Cardiff NLP at Cardiff University is advertising a Postdoc / Research Associate position connected to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) as part of Jose Camacho Collados ’s UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. The role is described as a 14-month appointment, with a start date of December 2026 or soon after and some flexibility. The research topics will be connected to the fellowship and the supervisor’s research interests, but there is also room for some topic flexibil...