POSITION DETAILS

School of Government
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413 with potential progression once in post to £48,149
As this vacancy has limited funding the maximum salary that can be offered is Grade 7, salary £41,671
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to December 2026
Closing date: 19th June 2025

ROLE SUMMARY

TWICEASGOOD, a five-year programme of research (2022-2026) funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, aims to better understand how encounters of “everyday sexism” on the campaign trail, both online and offline and in the media, shape women’s campaign efforts and chances at electoral success. See https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/projects/spspa/twiceasgood/

The role comprises:

• Working within the TWICEASGOOD project, attending team meetings, disseminating results
• Contributing to the development research ideas related to project themes of gender, political communication and “everyday sexism”
• Analysing and interpreting research findings and results based on large scale media data sets
• Contributing to engagement with non-academic partners, co-produce new knowledge, contribute to public understanding everyday sexism in campaigns

MAIN DUTIES

The main duties and responsibilities of the appointed postdoctoral researcher are to undertake analysis of data, report findings and write up results addressing research questions on everyday sexism in campaigns. In more detail the duties and responsibilities are:

• Analyse and interpret data using advanced quantitative techniques (e.g., NLP, classification, clustering), statistical modelling, and other computational techniques
• Process large scale text data sets in multiple languages
• Create documentation for data and processes guided by principles of reproducibility
• Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc – prepare and submit articles for publication
• Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods to understanding gender bias in political communication using text as data
• Contribute to public engagement activities that benefit dissemination of project research findings
• Present research outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at seminars and as posters
• Provide guidance, as required, to support staff and any students who may be assisting with the research
• Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines
• Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture