Postdoc Position at the Chair of Sociology of Migration and Integration in the Project "Political and Religious Extremism"

The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim offers a Postdoc position at the Chair of Sociology of Migration and Integration in the project Political and Religious Extremism.

The MZES is an interdisciplinary research institute of the University of Mannheim dedicated to comparative European social research and the analysis of European integration processes. It is Germany’s largest university‐based social‐science research centre. In addition to the resources of the University, MZES supports its postdocs with a dedicated IT department, an internal Data and Methods Unit, an extensive Centre library, support from project management offices, and a public relations officer.

The Centre seeks to recruit an outstanding Postdoc in the project “Political and Religious Extremism. Measuring and Explaining Explicit and Implicit Attitudes”. The project is financed by the German Research Foundation for three years and led by Prof. Marc Helbling at the MZES Chair of Sociology of Migration and Integrationand by Dr. Sebastian Jungkunz at the University of Duisburg Essen. The aim of this project is to develop a survey‐based instrument that allows to measure various forms of political and religious extremism, to compare explanatory factors of extremist views and to study the relationship between extremist and non‐extremist groups. The Postdoc will be responsible to design and conduct two surveys in Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain.

Candidates should have completed their PhD with an excellent dissertation in Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Economics or a related discipline. We expect very advanced quantitative methodological skills and publications, particularly in peer‐reviewed journals as well as experience with survey research, scale development and ideally also Implicit Association Tests. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications and will be public sector pay scheme (100%, TV‐L E13), with additional employer benefits. The contract is limited to three years starting preferably 1 September 2020 subject to final approval of the project.

As an equal opportunity employer, the University of Mannheim particularly encourages applications from women and persons with disabilities.

Applications may be submitted in German or English. They should include a cover letter, a CV (with a list of publications), copies of academic degrees (including the doctoral degree certificate).
The deadline for applications is 29 June 2020. Applications can be sent electronically as one pdf to the following address: sek‐a@mzes.uni‐mannheim.de

For further information about the Centre, please visit the MZES website: https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en

For more information about the position, please contact Professor Marc Helbling at marchelbling@hotmail.com