Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft
Veröffentlicht am: 16.01.2025

Postdoctoral Researcher position in the Politics of Climate Change (f/m/d)

Heidelberg University, Heidelberg

Bewerbungsfrist: 02.03.2025

Beginn: 01.05.2025

Your Tasks:

  • Prepare, organize, and oversee the collection and coding of media data on climate-change-related debates and position-taking, including supervising the partially manual coding process ¾ Conduct quantitative content analyses of text-based data on the coverage of political conflict
  • Prepare, organize, and supervise the fielding of mass population surveys on attitudes and behaviors related to climate change
  • Perform empirical analyses of surveys and survey experiments
  • Academic presentations and publications in peer-reviewed journals

Your Profile: 

  • PhD in the social sciences, particularly in political science or sociology, with an above-average grade or evaluation. Expertise in comparative politics or political sociology, especially in the politics of climate change, is an advantage.
  • Strong familiarity with quantitative methods in empirical social science analysis. Experience with computational social science methods (e.g., AI for processing and coding quantitative texts) or with designing and analyzing survey experiments is desired. Proficiency in R and Python is a plus.
  • Willingness and ability to organize and supervise original data collection
  • Excellent English proficiency (written and oral). Fluency in additional languages (e. g., German, French, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, or Romanian) is an advantage
  • Availability to work on-site, as required by the project, is preferred

We offer: 

  • A position focused exclusively on research with no teaching obligations
  • Funding for conference travel within Europe and the US
  • A collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment, including engagement with initiatives like the Heidelberg Center for the Environment

Application Procedure:

Please send your application, consisting of a motivation letter, CV, a writing sample, relevant degree certificates with transcripts, and the contact information for two potential referees (recommendation letters are not required), by March 2, 2025. Applications should preferably be submitted as a single PDF via email to endre.borbath@ipw.uni-heidelberg.de.

Please note that application documents will not be returned. If you have questions about the position, feel free to contact Jun.-Prof. Dr. Endre Borbáth.