Assistant Professor Digital Inequalities

Job

This assistant professorship position is designed to reinforce and complement our expertise in the study of digital inequalities. We welcome applications from candidates with a recent PhD, a solid theoretical and methodological background and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality, targeting publications in leading disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals. All disciplinary backgrounds are welcome as far as the research has strong connections with the social sciences. This position will contribute to strengthening research and teaching on digital technologies in the context of the Sciences Po TIERED project (Transforming Interdisciplinary Education and Research for Evolving Democracies). Within TIERED, the Open Institute for Digital transformations of Sciences Po aims at mobilizing and strengthening its expertise in the social sciences to help decisionmakers and the citizens of tomorrow better understand, grasp, and use digital technologies. The successful candidate will become a faculty member of CRIS and will be expected to play an active role in its collective activities: seminars, academic events, participation in research networks. The candidate should also engage in responding to national and international calls to fund research projects. The successful candidate will teach in Sciences Po’s undergraduate programs (in Paris and in other campuses of Sciences Po located outside the metropolitan area of Paris) as well as in graduate programs, in particular for the master on Social Policy and Social Innovation of the School of Public Affairs.

Initiator(s):
Centre for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS)

Deadline: 15.03.2025
Start date: 01.09.2025
Location: Paris, France

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Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein