Luxembourg: Postdoc position in Sociology
| The University of Luxembourg invites applications for the following vacancy in its Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education |
Post-doctoral position in Sociology (M/F)
- Ref : F3R_INS_PFN_12PSOC
- Full-time/40 hrs
- Fixed term contract 3 years, renewable 2 years
- Employee status
The post doc researcher will be a member of the INSIDE research unit (Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development) within the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education at the University of Luxembourg.
More specifically he /she will work within the PROSOCIAL research programme: a comparative stratification research project in the sociology of inequalities funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR). The PROSOCIAL programme analyses the dynamics of stratification and inequalities in the context of the transformations of welfare regimes. The intensification of economic inequalities of income and wealth, the development of new social cleavages between gender, age groups, ethnic minorities, etc. and the accumulation of concrete social tensions, are leading factors of the transformation of social categories and social inequalities in the Western World. The institutional answers and the crises of welfare regimes foster the development of new dimensions of inequalities in the distribution of economic and social resources. Deepening the descriptive knowledge of these inequalities and their dynamics, developing new cross-sectional and longitudinal analytic tools, understanding better the interactions between social structures and institutional transformations are the main dimensions of the PROSOCIAL program. This programme is developed in close cooperation with the Luxembourg research actors, including the LIS (Luxembourg Income Study).
Vos tāches
The post doc researcher will be member of the PROSOCIAL team. In collaboration with the principal investigator (Prof. Louis Chauvel), he/she will:
- Develop research in the sociology of comparative inequality and stratification;
- Participate in the editing of scientific publications;
- Cooperate in preparing research proposals
Votre profil
- Doctoral Degree in the social sciences;
- Publications in academic journals;
- Large experience in quantitative research (Stata, R, etc.);
- Interest and experience of comparative research;
- Good communication skills that enable him/her to support the supervision of students;
- Excellent level in English. French and/or German would be useful assets.
Application Deadline: 26 June 2012