POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN POLITICAL SCIENCE SPECIALIZING IN SURVEY DESIGN WITH AN INTEREST IN NUCLEAR POLITICS

8 Feb 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques

Department

CERI

Research Field

Political sciences

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

France

Application Deadline

16 Feb 2024 – 23:00 (Europe/Paris)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

36.3

Offer Starting Date

7 Mar 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

H2020 / ERC

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Professor Benoît Pelopidas is looking for a postdoctoral research scholar to work with the team of his chair of excellence in security studies (www.sciencespo.fr/nk/en) at Sciences Po, Paris (CERI) within the ERC Project NUCLEAR (Governing nuclear weapons choices between past and futures) starting in March 2024, for 4 months. 

The successful candidate will contribute to the two following research goals of the NUCLEAR project: replicate and enrich the 2019 survey designed by the team on knowledge about and attitudes towards nuclear weapons policies among European publics.

This will consist in four main tasks:

Establishing the survey based on the one we had in 2019

Writing a tender so that pollsters can make us offers.

Once the polling has been conducted, analysing the data and building a codebook

Co-author one article with Professor Pelopidas based on the results of the survey. An opportunity will also be offered to the selected candidate to become a co-author on a draft paper on democracy and nuclear weapons based on the previous survey which could be enriched by this one.

About the working environment :

Since September 2016, Professor Pelopidas and his team have received a Chair of excellence, a four-year ANR research funding, a six-year ERC Starting Grant, two Marie-Curie fellowships and multiple scholarly awards for their publications. In other words, the successful candidate will benefit from a uniquely intense, engaged and collegial intellectual environment striving for academic excellence as well as policy relevance, understood as speaking to the contemporary condition of our fellow citizens and not only the policy elites. All members of the team are chosen because they agree that peace of mind, mutual support and a welcoming environment are crucial to academic excellence, while understanding that asking hard questions and being challenged are the only ways to achieve it. 

The successful candidate alongside all members of the team as well as relevant members of the scientific advisory board of the program will give detailed feedback on the writings of other team members on the basis of one monthly essay discussion. 

About CERI/Sciences Po :

Sciences Po has been ranked 3rd best IR and politics department in the world by QS in 2023 for the second year in a row. It is the leading research university in social sciences in France and has 400 academic partnerships with universities around the world. Based on a multi-disciplinary approach, it associates and combines skills from the different social sciences – in particular economy, history, political science, sociology and the humanities. Established in 1952, the Centre for International Research (CERI) is the most preeminent research centre in France that concentrates on both international/transnational relations and regional studies. It is also the largest of Sciences Po’s research units. CERI’s excellence in scholarship translates into partnerships with sister institutions abroad, such as the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Department of International Relations and the European Institute at LSE, Department of War Studies at King’s College, and CERIUM, Montréal.

CERI brings together scholars from several disciplines in the social sciences – first and foremost, political science, but also sociology, anthropology, history and economics. With regard to CERI’s regional expertise, the Muslim world is first (with 13 permanent scholars who specialize on countries stretching from Morocco to the Arabic Peninsula and Iran), followed by Latin American, Asian, East European and African studies. Fieldwork, empirical and comparative methods and knowledge of local languages are essential characteristics of CERI’s approach to area studies. CERI also reaches out to policy makers and government agencies, media outlets, NGOs and corporations. It has a well-established tradition of organizing public events and disseminating knowledge through its many publications.

Requirements

Research Field

Political sciences

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

We are looking for a creative survey designer with an interest in nuclear weapons politics and in the effects of knowledge on attitudes towards nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons policies

Specific Requirements

• The successful candidate will have a Ph. D (Political Science or International Relations) in hand by March 2024.
• He or she should have a solid experience of survey research, survey design and ideally have already published research including surveys.

A good sense of organization and human relationships is also required.
 

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Excellent

Research Field

Political sciences

Years of Research Experience

1 – 4

Additional Information
Benefits

Gross monthly salary: 3 700 euros

Selection process

• Candidates wishing to apply for the position should send a full CV, a motivation letter of maximum 2 pages and the copy of their PhD diploma in PDF format to Ms. Roxana Vermel ([email protected])
• The email should indicate “NUCLEAR postdoctoral position (survey)” in the object.

Additional comments

• Sciences Po is an equal opportunity employer.
• The successful candidate will work on CERI’s premises located at 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris and will have to reside in Paris for the duration of the contract (4 months).

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

CERI

Country

France

City

Paris

Postal Code

75007

Street

28 rue des Saints Pères

Geofield

Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

City

Paris Cedex 07

Website

https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr/content/les-choix-en-matiere-d-armes-nucleaires-gouverner-les-vulnerabilites-nucleaires-entre-le-pas.html
https://www.sciencespo.fr/nk/en

Street

27, Rue saint-Guillaume

Postal Code

75337

STATUS: EXPIRED