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Conference/Call for abstracts/papers
Bernd Fitzenberger (Humboldt University Berlin and ZEW)
and Gerard van den Berg
(University of Bristol) are pleased to announce the conference Demographics, Immigration, and the Labor
Market taking place on 6-7
April, 2018 in Nuremberg,
Germany.
The
keynote addresses will be given by Anne
Case (Princeton University), Christian
Dustmann (University College London, CReAM), David Green (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) and Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim).
The
deadline for submission of full
papers (preliminary versions are welcome) to dfg1764@zew.de is 20 December, 2017.
Travel and accommodation costs will be reimbursed for speakers. For further
information, please see the attached CfP and
here.
The
conference is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the
Priority Program The German Labor Market in a Globalized World Challenges
through Trade, Technology, and Demographics (SPP 1764) and the Labor and
Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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Computational Social Science Summer School on Conflicts
23 July - 3 August 2018
Jacobs University,
Bremen (Germany)
The
two-weeks summer school serves as a research incubator to linking social
science research on conflicts with computational methods of data mining and
analysis. During the summer school, participants are introduced to methods of
computational social sciences (CSS) and conflict research. They will conduct a
self-designed hands-on research project. On our website, we offer a set of
projects that are pre-designed by our experts. Applicants can also propose
their own.
We welcome applications from social scientists with a focus on conflict
research and computational social scientists with interest in the topic. We
offer an additional two-day introductory workshop to R before the summer school
starts for all those not familiar with the programming language or who
want to refresh their skills. Women are especially encouraged to apply.
Application deadline: 11 February 2018
For
application, please check our call for participation
online or as attached. For more information visit our website
or contact us: css@bigsss-bremen.de
The summer school on conflicts is the first in a series of three CSS summer
schools. In 2019, a summer school on migration will be held in Cagliari
(Sardinia, Italy) and in 2020 on social cohesion in Groningen (Netherlands).
The summer schools are generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation as part
of its program International Research in Computational Social Sciences.
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Vacancies
2
Postdoctoral Researchers in ERC project EFFORT (3 years)
The research project "Effort and Social
Inequality Advancing Measurement and Understanding Parental Origin
Effects" (EFFORT) funded by the European Research Council (ERC) is
recruiting two Postdoctoral Researchers with a PhD in sociology, economics,
psychology or similar. The project will be located at the Carlos III Juan March
Institute (IC3JM), which is affiliated to the Department of
Social Sciences of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). The
positions are offered for three years, starting between March and September
2018.
Further details are available upon request
from Principal Investigator Jonas Radl (jradl@clio.uc3m.es). Closing
date: 15 January 2018. See full Call
for Applications.
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Post-doctoral Opportunity
Project Hatemeter: Prevent and combat racism, xenophobia and
other forms of intolerance
The Maison
des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (MSHS-T) is recruiting a
temporary junior researcher in computational social science (at the
post-doctoral level) for a period of 12 months to help produce, implement and
evaluate an online tool to track hate speech, as part of the interdisciplinary
Hatemeter project.
The
position will be part of a European-wide project to develop a hate speech tool
for monitoring, analyzing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online. Funded by the
European Commission, this research aims to systematize and share knowledge of
Anti-Muslim hatred online. Its goal is also to increase the efficiency and
effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Civil Society
Organizations (CSOs) in preventing and tackling Islamophobia. It also aims to
develop and test the Hatemeter Platform that will automatically monitor and
analyze Internet and social media data on the phenomenon, as well as produce
computer-assisted responses and prompts to support counter-narratives and
awareness raising campaigns.
Tasks will include both
qualitative and quantitative work. The qualitative work will involve assisting
other French researchers in collecting preliminary data on Islamophobia online
and conducting in-depth interviews of users, including relevant NGOs and CSOs
in France. This stage will also include analyzing this qualitative data.
The quantitative work will
be the bulk of the position and will include working with other European
researchers on developing the Hatemeter platform, using data analytics and
visualization. This will include social media data crawling, text processing,
such as opinion mining, as well as sentiment and emotion analysis. This will
also include the creation of a database for both structured and unstructured
data integration. Work will also include implementation of a data visualization
dashboard. This will provide functionalities for the visual exploration and
analysis of the data, enabling content monitoring, synchronic and diachronic
comparisons, close and distant reading, data clustering, network analysis, etc.
Pictorial and graphical format will be used as much as possible so to make the
tool language and country-independent. This will also include implementation
and evaluation of this Hatemeter tool.
The post-doc will work in
close collaboration with a group of interdisciplinary researchers across
Europe, as well as in collaboration with researchers at MSHS-T.
Interested candidates are
invited to send the following documents to Jerome.ferret@ut-capitole.fr ET jen.schradie@iast.fr before 2018
January 10 with the subject line: Hatemeter Position and containing the
following:
CV
Cover Letter
Three articles or book chapters
List and contact information of three people
to contact for references
Profile:
The candidate must hold a
doctorate in a social science discipline.
Demonstrated experience in
computational content analytics, such as NLP, machine learning, visualization,
network analysis.
A very good command of
English and French.
Ability to work well with an international
research team.
Duration: 12 months, non-renewable, starting date February 2018.
Salary:
2.300 brut (environ 1.850 net)
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Up to 8 Doctoral Positions in Economic Sociology and Political Economy
at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, the University of
Cologne,
and the University of Duisburg-Essen
The International Max Planck Research School on the Social
and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), conducted jointly by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the University
of Cologne, with the University of Duisburg-Essen as an associated partner, invites excellent
candidates to apply for its doctoral program. The graduate school features a unique curriculum of core courses, research
methods, electives, and summer school sessions. The positions begin on October 1, 2018. They will be awarded
for 15 months with an option for an additional 27 months.
The deadline for applications is February
28, 2018.
> For
more information, see the announcement [PDF]
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The Institute of Sociology at the University of Zurich
aims to fill several research positions.
1 Doctoral Student (60%)
2 Post-Doctoral Researchers (75-100%)
We are looking for 1 Doctoral Student (60%) and 2
Post-Doctoral researchers (75-100%) interested in joining the newly founded
Professorship of Social Theory and Quantitative Methods of Prof. Dr. Heiko
Rauhut.
The group is interested in theory-guided quantitative
research on social norms, cooperation, experimental game theory, analytical
sociology, network analysis, stochastic actor network models, sociology of
science, survey methodology and statistical modeling. The positions are funded
by the SNSF Starting Grant Social
norms, cooperation and conflict in scientific collaborations (CONCISE), the
SNSF project Coevolution of
prosociality and networks: A longitudinal, cross-country network survey
in Swiss schools and by the University of Zurich. Applicants should hold a MA / PhD (or should be close to
completion) in Sociology or a related field (such as Behavioral or Experimental
Economics, Social Psychology, Political
Science, Statistics or Computational Social Science).
We are particularly interested in attracting candidates in
the following 2 research areas:
1) Experimental and behavioral research on cooperation and
social norms
2) Co-evolution of social networks and prosociality.
Details of these research areas and the research profile
of the professorship is found at www.suz.uzh.ch/rauhut. Other research
topics, especially in the areas of experimental game theory and analytical
sociology, are also welcome, but should have a strong connection to the general
profile of the professorship.
We offer a stimulating, dynamic and research-oriented
environment. We are looking for creative, prosocial and proactive candidates.
Support in teaching and research activities of the chair is expected. Post-docs
are expected to support the chair in supervision of PhD and MA students and in
administrative tasks. After a trial period, post-doc positions are initially
limited to 3 years and PhD positions to 4 years (with an extension to max. 6 years, subject to
funding).
Please send your application including a statement of
interest, CV, transcripts, 2 samples of written work and 2 letters of
recommendation or alternatively contact details of two referees in one pdf file
until January 15th, 2018 to Heiko Rauhut via jobs@soziologie.uzh.ch.
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Becoming the Oxford Good Lad Coordinator
We are recruiting
a new Oxford Good Lad Coordinator, who will be responsible for
managing and supporting our volunteer facilitator team and organising workshop
bookings in Oxford. This exciting role will be crucial in the development
of our workshops in Oxford, so please do share widely, and get in touch if it
interests and inspires you.
It involves a time
commitment of 1-2 days a week for 30 weeks per year, mostly during term
times. The role is paid, and includes expenses. It is open to
people of all genders and backgrounds.
We would like the
successful candidate to start at the start of January 2018.
Deadline for
applications: 21 December
More information: http://www.goodladworkshop.com/vacancies/
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