Postdoctoral Researcher Migration, Integration, Transnationalization

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The Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) is looking for a temporary position at the Department of Migration, Integration, Transnationalization (Director: Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans; see https://wzb.eu/en/research/migration-and-diversity/migration-integration-transnationalization) for a fixed term from March 1, 2025 to February 29, 2028, subject to final approval of the external funding a Research Fellow (m/f/d) - Postdoctoral Researcher (100%) (ID 304) for collaboration in the BMBF/BMI-funded Cluster of Excellence Monitoring System and Transfer Platform Radicalization (MOTRA) - see www.motra.info. The WZB team of the cluster deals with mobilization structures, protests and public discourses relevant to various forms of extremism. The advertised position will focus on Islamism and in particular examine the relevance of the Islamophobia issue for the mobilization structures and public discourses of Islamist actors and their allies. Another key topic for the position is anti-Semitism in its Islamist, far-right and far-left forms. To address these topics, public discourses will be systematically investigated (qualitatively and quantitatively), organizational structures and networks in the areas of Islamism and Islamophobia will be surveyed and an online panel survey with integrated survey experiments will be co-designed and evaluated. Within the same project context, the WZB has separately advertised an additional position as a Research Fellow (m/f/d) - Postdoctoral Researcher (100%) at the Center for Civil Society Research with a focus on political protest, social movements and radicalization. The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading edge theory-based and problem-oriented social science research (http://www.wzb.eu/en). At the WZB, around 450 researchers from various disciplines work together with staff members from the research-supporting areas. WZB researchers come from across the globe and work across social science disciplines including sociology, political science, economics, law, and psychology. A member of the Leibniz Association, WZB’s research is directed at the science community, policy makers, the media and the general public. Job description Your tasks and duties - Collection and analysis of media-based data on public discourses, organizational networks and survey data: Organization, coordination and implementation of data collection - Preparation of scientific publications - Collaboration on the project reports - Presentation of project results in workshops and conferences - Exchange and coordination within the WZB part of the project in collaboration with the Center for - Civil Society Research - Exchange and coordination with partners in the MOTRA consortium

Initiator(s):
WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Deadline: 26.12.2024
Start date: 01.03.2025
Location: Berlin, Germany

https://wzb.eu/en/jobs/research-fellow-mfd-postdoctoral-researcher-id-304-347-304

Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein