Post-doc position in Political Science with expertise in qualitative methods

POLINEQUAL (The Politicisaton of Economic Inequality: The Impact of Welfare Regimes, Elites’ Discourse and Media Frames on Citizens’ Perceptions, Justice Evaluations and Political Behaviour, www.polinequal.eu) is financed by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant 2019, 866340) and aims to study the causes and mechanisms that motivate citizens to respond to economic inequalities.

POLINEQUAL's research design is based on a mixed-method approach, organized in different stages and combining data from focus groups, analyses of political discourse and media content, online surveys and experimental studies. Pursuing a comparative perspective, POLINEQUAL data is being collected in France, Great Britain and Sweden.

The post-doc, alongside the project leader, is expected to coordinate and carry out analyses of political and media discourses on economic inequality using methods of critical discourse analysis, content analysis and framing analysis. He/she will also train POLINEQUAL team members in these methods.

Main activities

• Planning, coordination and execution with the project leader of critical discourse analyses, content analyses and framing analyses of political party programs, political speeches and interviews and media representations of economic inequality
• Analyses of data collected in POLINEQUAL
• Training of the POLINEQUAL team members in critical discourse, content and framing analysis
• Scientific publication activities, dissemination and valorisation of results
• Teaching activities possible, to be negotiated

Contract: 100 %, duration of contract 24 months (12 months + 12 months extension), post is vacant starting 15th May 2023