Research Officer / PhD Positions in Comparative Welfare State Research and Attitudinal Research at University of Tübingen University of Tübingen in Germany

[TV-L E13, 75% for 3 years; gross annual salary starts from approximately 43,000 Euro.] The University of Tübingen invites applications for two Research Officer/PhD posts in the Research Unit Comparative Public Policy at the Institute of Political Science. This is a 3-year appointment starting 1 November 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter, within an externally funded project on Measuring the Past and Assessing Future Possibilities of Welfare State Dualization supported by the DFG (German Re...

Several full-time postdoctoral researchers are invited to join the EduTrack project: Tracking Education Pathways and Social Policies at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Germany. The project is interdisciplinary and sits at the intersection of demography and education , with a research focus on how education and knowledge transfer shape individual and societal well-being and resilience across life courses. MPIDR leads the work package on the bi-directional relationships ...

Four 2-year postdoctoral fellowships are being advertised at the Zukunftskolleg , University of Konstanz, for research related to the politics of inequality . The post is shared on LinkedIn and points to the official University of Konstanz job posting. This opportunity is relevant for researchers in Political Science , with possible interdisciplinary connections to Sociology and Economics given the focus on inequality. The post does not provide detailed eligibility criteria, but it clearly indic...

The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is advertising a postdoctoral position in the Department of Anthropology of Politics and Governance . This opportunity is aimed at researchers in social and cultural anthropology and closely related fields. The department describes its research environment as focused on cutting-edge anthropological work on political arrangements, governance initiatives, social movements, geopolitical re-ordering, climate uncertainty, biodiversity loss, and technol...

We’re hiring a PostDoc to join a research team in Berlin at Humboldt University of Berlin , working with Heike Klüver , Macartan Humphreys , and Johannes Giesecke across SCRIPTS Berlin and the Humboldt Governance Lab . This opportunity is especially relevant for researchers in Political Science , Political Behavior , and Governance , with possible overlap into broader social science research. The post emphasizes a strong team, an exciting project, and the chance to work in Berlin. Position level...