Two Research Officer/PhD Posts Universität Tübingen in Germany

New DFG-funded PhD opportunity at the University of Tübingen in the Institute of Political Science / Research Unit Comparative Public Policy. The project, “Measuring the past and assessing future possibilities of welfare state dualization” , examines why social spending, benefit generosity, and public support for the welfare state have remained stable since the 1980s while poverty and inequality continue to rise. The team will develop new institutional indicators for outsiders in selected Europe...

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...

Doctoral Researcher or Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Philipps University of Marburg in Germany . The position is linked to the project “Contested Responses to the Climate Crisis: Environmental Conflicts in Southeast Europe in the Shadow of the EU’s Green Transition” , funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research . The project sits at the intersection of International Relations , Political Science , and Environmental Science , with a strong focus on climate politics, environmental ...