Description of employer

Université Paris 8 is a central teaching and research centre for the humanities in the Île-de-France region.

Key figures:

• 23935 students
• A range of courses divided into 5 subject areas: Arts, Law, Economics and Management, Humanities and Languages, Science and Technology, promoting links between disciplines and cross-disciplinary issues.
• 11 UFR, 5 institutes including 2 IUT, an IED, the Institute of European Studies and the French Institute of Geopolitics
• 36 bachelor's degrees (including 11 vocational), 40 master's degrees, 8 DUTs, numerous university diplomas, 80 doctorates
• 4 doctoral schools, 33 research units including 9 UMRs, around 170 doctoral theses defended each year
• 870 teaching staff and 711 library, administrative and technical staff.

Université Paris 8 is a member of the COMUE Paris lumière with Université de Nanterre and is part of the Campus Condorcet.

Since 2020, it has been coordinator of a European university, the European Reform Universtiy Alliance (ERUA), in charge of education (Erasmus +) and research (H2020). ERUA brings together the University of Paris 8, the University of Constance, the University of Roskilde, the University of the Aegean and the New Bulgarian University. Drawing on the experimental approaches that are at the heart of each of the institutions brought together, ERUA promotes inclusive universities - and societies - that draw their strength from their diversity.

Description of the structure

Created on 1 January 2009, CRESPPA (Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research), UMR 7217 of the CNRS, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis and Université Paris Nanterre, brings together CSU (Cultures et Sociétés Urbaines), GTM (Genre, Travail, Mobilités) and LabTop (Laboratoire Théorie du politique). In addition to the desire for a collegial internal operation that includes all categories of staff as well as colleagues in training, the three teams share a strong interest in the study of different social forms of domination and mobilisation, as well as divisions and categorisations linked to social relations. The comparative perspective is strongly present in all our research programmes. Through the relativisation to which international comparison invites, it provides a more solid foundation for the explanatory models derived from field research.

Duties of the position

The post-doc will work with Jane Freedman on the ERC research project, GRABS- Growing Up Across Borders. The aim of this project is to produce knowledge and analysis on the experiences of young people aged 15-24 as they migrate across borders. Research will be carried out in 5 countries - France, Greece, the UK, Canada and South Africa. The project will employ innovative methodologies, including digital methodologies, and will emphasise participatory methods by building research with young refugees.

As part of this project, the person recruited will be involved in all aspects of the research - development of research methods and tools, preparation of dossiers for ethics committees, review of scientific literature, interviews with key informants, ethnographies and qualitative research with young refugees, development of digital tools, data analysis, presentations at seminars and colloquia, writing of articles, books and reports, contribution to the project website. Together with Jane Freedman, he/she will be responsible for developing digital tools (netnography, web-scraping, machine assisted learning), and for training other team members to work with these tools. He/she will also work with an external partner to develop an app for use in the project.

Activities

• Scientific research as part of the GRABS project
• Organisation of meetings and seminars
• Review of the scientific literature
• Development of digital tools and training for other project members
• Research using digital tools
• Work on developing an app for the project
• Field research in France and in one of the other project countries
• Interviews, focus groups
• Data analysis
• Research presentations
• Writing scientific articles
• Website contribution