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Special Call PhD Scholarship on Social Acceleration and Democratic Lawmaking Aarhus University in Denmark
Degree Level
PhD
Field of study
Political Science
Funding
3-year PhD scholarship; if admitted, employment as a PhD fellow at base pay level 4–8 under Danish state collective agreement.
Deadline
Nov 16, 2026
Country
Denmark
University
Aarhus University
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About this position
This PhD scholarship is part of the ERC-funded SLOMODEMO project at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. The project examines how liberal democracies respond when social, technological, and everyday life accelerate, while democratic lawmaking remains deliberative, rule-bound, and comparatively slow.
The advertised PhD position focuses specifically on the relationship between social acceleration and democratic lawmaking. The student will develop an original, focused project within this broader research programme and contribute to work package 2, which studies how acceleration affects legislative processes and democratic problem solving. The research agenda invites questions about legislative adaptation, attempts by political actors to speed up or reorganize lawmaking, and the implications for deliberation, accountability, and institutional capacity.
The PhD student will join a collaborative research environment that brings together scholars working on social acceleration, political and legal institutions, public opinion, survey experiments, and computational social science. The project is comparative in scope and is connected to a broader empirical framework spanning multiple countries and recent decades.
Potential research materials include legislative and institutional data, legal texts, parliamentary or administrative documents, and other sources that can capture changes in the pace, content, or organization of lawmaking over time. The post encourages a clear empirical design and allows the candidate to choose suitable theoretical, methodological, and data-collection strategies within the project’s overall framework.
The position is embedded in Aarhus BSS, part of Aarhus University, and offers access to seminars, methods training, international networks, and wider departmental research activities. The advertised environment emphasizes comparative politics, political institutions, public policy, political behaviour, and advanced quantitative methods.
Supervisor: Professor Kees van Kersbergen leads the SLOMODEMO project.
Funding details
3-year PhD scholarship; if admitted, employment as a PhD fellow at base pay level 4–8 under Danish state collective agreement.
What's required
Applicants must have a relevant master’s degree in political science, public policy, sociology, computational social science, data science, or a closely related field completed before enrolment. They should have a foundation in quantitative social-science research design and comparative political analysis, demonstrable proficiency in R or a comparable programming environment, experience with transparent and reproducible data analysis, the ability to formulate and carry out an independent PhD project while collaborating in a larger research team, and excellent written and spoken English. Advantageous but not required: advanced longitudinal, multilevel, Bayesian, or other quantitative methods; measurement of complex political or social concepts and change over time; automated and responsible data collection; computational analysis of multilingual political or legal documents; comparative research on democratic institutions, legislative politics, public policy, political time, or social acceleration; and open-science practices. Applicants are encouraged to document relevant competencies through their thesis, course papers, RA work, code repositories, replication materials, or similar outputs.
How to apply
Apply through the job link and follow the application guide and FAQ referenced in the advert. Prepare a project description showing how you would study social acceleration and democratic lawmaking within the SLOMODEMO framework. Include documentation of relevant academic and methodological competencies. Submit by 16 November 2026 at 23:59 CET.
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Professor at Aarhus University
Denmark
Research Interests
Political Economy
Public Policy
Social Welfare
Social Economy
Neoliberalism
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