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Postdoctoral Researcher in Gender, Fertility Intentions and Family Demography Centre for Demographic Studies in Spain
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Postdoc
Field of study
Sociology
Funding
Full-time temporary two-year contract from January 2027 to December 2028. Gross annual salary is €34,080, comprising €33,660 under the CED R2 salary scale plus a €420 mobility allowance.
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Nov 25, 2026
Country
Spain
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The Centre for Demographic Studies in Barcelona is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher for the research line on gender and fertility. The researcher will join the project “Beyond Low Fertility: Is the Intention to Remain Childfree Increasing in Europe?”, funded by Fundación BBVA.
The project investigates whether the intention to remain childless is increasing across Europe, rather than reflecting only postponed parenthood. It treats fertility intentions as adaptive plans that individuals revise as they encounter changing constraints and opportunities throughout the life course. The research will examine when women and men shift from postponing parenthood to intending to remain childfree, whether these intentions remain stable, and which factors are associated with childlessness intentions over time.
The postdoctoral researcher will conduct independent and collaborative research on fertility intentions, reproductive trajectories, childlessness and family formation from a life-course perspective. Work will address the formation, revision and realization of fertility intentions, including the roles of employment, partnership trajectories, family background and socioeconomic conditions.
The role involves analysing longitudinal and cross-national survey data and applying quantitative approaches such as sequence analysis, longitudinal and panel-data methods, fixed-effects models and event-history analysis. The researcher will also work with harmonized comparative demographic datasets, contributing to data construction, harmonization, documentation and quality assessment.
Additional activities include literature reviews, data preparation, statistical analysis, manuscript development, responses to reviewers, conference and workshop presentations, grant development and contributions to collaborative publications. The researcher will maintain transparent and reproducible workflows through version control, code documentation and reproducible statistical analyses, while participating in seminars, reading groups, workshops and other academic activities at the Centre for Demographic Studies.
The position offers an interdisciplinary environment focused on population research, fertility and family demography, with opportunities to contribute to international peer-reviewed research and comparative demographic projects.
Funding details
Full-time temporary two-year contract from January 2027 to December 2028. Gross annual salary is €34,080, comprising €33,660 under the CED R2 salary scale plus a €420 mobility allowance.
What's required
Applicants must hold a PhD or DPhil in Sociology, Demography, Population Studies, Social Statistics or a closely related discipline, or have equivalent research experience. Essential qualifications include research experience in fertility, family demography, reproductive behaviour, fertility intentions or related population research; strong quantitative skills with longitudinal or life-course data; experience with large-scale survey or population datasets, preferably cross-national or longitudinal; excellent knowledge of R and/or Stata; experience with sequence analysis, panel-data methods, fixed-effects models, event-history analysis or related methods; the ability to formulate independent research questions and rigorous empirical designs; demonstrated ability to write for international peer-reviewed journals and communicate effectively in English; and the ability to work independently and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary environment. Desirable experience includes fertility intentions and realization, childlessness, reproductive careers, family formation, life-course research, cross-national comparative research, datasets such as GGS, SOEP, HILDA, NLSY, pairfam or Understanding Society, data harmonization, reproducible research, international dissemination, collaborative publications and externally funded projects. The selected candidate must reside in Spain during the contract period and hold a valid work permit.
How to apply
Submit the application and required materials through the online application form. Include a CV, a cover letter of no more than one page, and one sole- or lead-authored scientific work.
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