Postdoc Opportunities in Political Science

Roskilde University is recruiting one or two postdoctoral researchers for a 24-month project on digital media and the conditions for democratic debate . The positions are based in the Department of Communication and Arts, with affiliation to the Centre for Digital Citizenship and the Digital Media Lab. The project investigates how digital news media, search engines, social media and AI chatbots represent pressing issues in Danish public debate. It asks whether digital platforms broaden or narrow...

The University of Amsterdam is advertising a postdoctoral position in Federico Savini’s research group, focused on conflicts around street use and their implications for urban life. The successful researcher will engage with contested uses of urban streets and examine how these conflicts can be addressed to help make cities better places to live. The work is situated within environmental planning, urban institutions, and politics, providing an opportunity to connect research on public space with...

The Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) is recruiting a quantitative postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded SINGLE project, “Understanding the Demography and Stratification of Singlehood in Europe,” based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona campus near Barcelona. SINGLE examines the demographic and social drivers of singlehood and its diverse consequences across Europe. The project is organized around the demography of singlehood and the stratification of singlehood, considering how cont...

The University of Aberdeen is recruiting a full-time Research Fellow for an 18-month ESRC-funded project, The International Politics of Soldier Exchange . The research examines the political dimensions of soldier exchange and is situated within international politics and social science research. The successful researcher will work with Kateřina Krulišová, Jenny Mathers and Natasha Danilova. The role is based at the University of Aberdeen, with Natasha Danilova, while hybrid working is possible. ...

The University of Birmingham is seeking a Research Fellow (Quantitative Researcher) to join the Women, Crime and Justice Research Group in the School of Social Policy and Society. Based in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the role contributes to research designed to improve outcomes for women involved in the criminal justice system and strengthen the evidence base on effective interventions and services. The Research Fellow will work on the Effective Women’s Centre Phase III project, supported by the JABB...

The COSMOS Research Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow II to advance computational social science research on cyber campaigns conducted through social media. Working with Prof. Nitin Agarwal and the COSMOS research team, the fellow will develop socio-computational models grounded in social and communication processes such as group formation, activation, decentralized decision-making, and collective action. The research involves extracti...

Georgetown University Medical Center’s Department of Family Medicine is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Primary Care Community of Scholars (PCCS) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Training Program. The program develops researchers prepared to conduct rigorous primary care research and translate findings into healthcare delivery and policy. The fellowship addresses persistent differences in health outcomes across the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Research priorities include...

The University of Notre Dame is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for an interdisciplinary project on the integrated assessment of data center development in Indiana and the broader Midwest. The research examines how rapidly changing data center infrastructure affects and depends on power, water, land, health, workforce, and other resources, while considering the implications for communities and regional sustainability. The project will develop a spatially explicit, contextually informed, a...

This postdoctoral project at Uppsala University focuses on the impacts of extreme weather events and the attribution of those impacts to physical climate events. The successful candidate will contribute to the EU project CLOSER and to the Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes (climes) , working on the compilation of data and analysis of how extreme climate events affect society. The research sits in the Department of Earth Sciences , within the Programme for Air, Water, and Landscape Sc...