Postdoctoral Researcher in Global Education Governance, Politics of Expertise, and Social Network Analysis Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland

2 PhD studentships are available at University College London (UCL), linked to an ERC Starting Grant in the Boda Lab at the UCL Institute of Education, London. The project examines how stereotypes spread through classroom social networks : who sees whom as “warm” or “competent,” why these perceptions persist, and how they may shape pupil outcomes and well-being . The research uses stochastic actor-oriented models and longitudinal social network analysis on new panel data from English secondary s...

Early PostDoc Position on the Governance of Climate Extremes at the University of Bern, affiliated with NCCR CLIM+ in Bern, Switzerland. The project sits in a new Switzerland-wide, fully interdisciplinary climate research community focused on climate extremes such as heatwaves, floods, heavy rainfalls, droughts, wildfires, and compound events. The postdoc will work closely with Prof. Karin Ingold at the Institute of Political Science and with the Uni Bern Management Center of NCCR CLIM+. Researc...

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...

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...