Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
- Department
- Research Institute IN3
- Research Field
- All
- Researcher Profile
- Recognised Researcher (R2)
- Country
- Spain
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Part-time
- Hours Per Week
- 20
- Offer Starting Date
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- Not funded by an EU programme
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
We are seeking to recruit a Research Assistant for three projects that are carried out within the Communication Networks & Social Change (CNSC) research group of the University's IN3: DISSIMILAR, DEMOC2023 and SGR-Cat-2021, who will contribute to the tasks of group research.
Functions:
-Contribution to CNSC group projects and publications
-Detection of subsidies and calls for funding and preparation of calendar
-Contribute to the writing and presentation of competitive projects and the preparation of research reports and reports
-Collection of data and elaboration of BBDD
-Data analysis, use of statistical techniques and packages such as R, STATA
-Elaboration of questionnaires for surveys
-Conducting in-depth interviews, participant observation and other qualitative methodology activities
- Contribution to research articles in English
-Organization of presentations and conferences
- Maintenance, updating and creation of content for websites and Twitter
-Zotero and Mendeley bibliographic management
Requirements
- Research Field
- All
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
Master's or Doctorate in Sociology, Political Science, Political Communication, Economics, Philosophy or other areas of the social sciences.
Master's or Doctorate in Computer Science, Data Science, Social Computing Science, which are related to social and political aspects.
With a Doctorate or not and a Master's degree and research experience (more than 5 years)
Quantitative and qualitative social research techniques
Bibliographic management
Good level of Catalan, Spanish and English
Office software: Excel, Word, PPT...
Wordpress and social networks
Experience in scientific writing and reports
Know how to make presentations in public
- Languages
- CATALAN
- Level
- Good
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Good
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Level
- Good
- Research Field
- All
- Years of Research Experience
- 4 - 10
Additional Information
24 working days of holidays + 9 days of conciliation, flexibility in working hours, eWork
We also value...
Research interest and experience in CNSC fields of study: participatory platforms, participatory budgeting, datafication, Aging, digital divide, algorithmic consciousness, Artificial Intelligence (AI), technopolitics, social networks, democratic innovations, digitization of political parties and online deliberation.
Having collaborated with research groups on projects and publications
Knowledge of social media analytics (Gephi, Phyton, etc.)
DIFFERENT: Contract funded by the State Research Agency (PCI2020-120689-2 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033)
DEMOC: Contract in charge of the project 'Citizen Evaluation of participatory budgets in Catalonia: satisfaction, problems and effects on political trust and legitimacy.' of the call 'Subsidies for research projects in the field of democratic quality', with external reference EXI/100/22/000007.
SGR: Contract in charge of the Communication Networks & Social Change project - SGR with external reference 2021 SGR 01397, from the call Aids to support the scientific activity of research groups in Catalonia (SGR-Cat 2021), financed by the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
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Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
- Country
- Spain
- State/Province
- Catalonia
- City
- Barcelona
- Postal Code
- 08018
- Street
- Rbla. del Poblenou, 156
Where to apply
- Website
Contact
- State/Province
- Catalonia
- City
- Barcelona
- Website
- Street
- Av.Tibidabo, 39-4308035 BarcelonaSPAIN
- Postal Code
- 08035