Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 276)

at  Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fr Sozialforschung gGmbH

The WZB Berlin Social Science Center, research area International Politics and Law, research unit Global Sociology (led by Professor Yasemin Soysal), is seeking to appoint

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

• A doctoral degree in Sociology or a related social science discipline with an interest in cross-disciplinary (widely understood, including e.g. experimental social sciences, cognitive psychology) research and exchanges
• Profound knowledge and experience of quantitative methods of empirical social research
• Competence in social science survey research methods, including design, sampling, programming and administration of survey questionnaires and survey experiments
• Competence in digital data mining and textual analysis, or willingness to learn
• Competence in data visualization and presentation tools (e.g. R, Python, etc.), or willingness to learn
• Competence in compilation of reports for non-academic audience and media outlets;
• Ability and willingness to work in a team
• Excellent command of written and spoken English, preferably also another language

• Contributing conceptually and empirically to the study of global processes, and their macro and micro level enactments, in one of the central research fields of the unit: science and knowledge society, environmental studies, global health, citizenship, human rights, international migrations
• Designing and implementing quantitative and comparative analyses in these fields, including large scale surveys
• Publishing empirically grounded research, partly together with Professor Soysal and other unit researchers, preferably in international, peer-reviewed journals
• Collaborating in designing and drafting project proposals for further fundin