Vacancies for 6 Post-doctoral Research Fellows

Below you can find the core topics for each of the three calls:

• quantitative research of survey data, administrative data, or quasi-experiments,
• qualitative research techniques, and/or techniques for textual, narrative, data,
• computational/digital sociology and social network analysis.

Quantitative research of survey data, administrative data, and/or quasi-experiments

The Trento Center for Social Research Methods is seeking to appoint two post-doctoral research fellows with experience in quantitative research of survey data, administrative data, or quasi-experiments. This includes, among others:

• advanced analysis for longitudinal data (such as panel data, pseudo panel, time series cross-sectional data, sequence analysis, and event history),
• multilevel data analysis,
• SEM models,
• counterfactual analysis,
• spatial statistics techniques and quasi-experimental research.

For example, candidates might bring – theoretically guided – empirical research with emphasis on cross-contexts and cross-social groups comparisons, and/or their research will advance the study of consequences and mechanisms of relevant social and economic phenomena (for example, dynamics of differentiation, risk or stratification).

For more details, please see: https://www.unitn.it/ateneo/bando/61304/dipartimento-di-sociologia-e-ricerca-sociale-avviso-di-selezione-per-il-conferimento-di-n-2-assegni (a pdf with further information can be found at the bottom of that page, called “Avviso di Selezione”)

Qualitative research techniques, and/or techniques for textual, narrative, data

The Trento Center for Social Research Methods is seeking to appoint two post-doctoral research fellows with experience in qualitative research techniques, and/or in techniques for the analysis of textual, narrative, data (including video and audio). These include, among others:

• direct observation (participant observation, shadowing, digital ethnography, non-intrusive observations),
• collection of in-depth accounts (in-depth interviews, biographical interviews, collection of non-directive reports),
• focus groups,
• conversation analysis (CA),
• critical discourse analysis,
• event structure analysis (ESA), structural topic modelling and analysis of narrative networks,
• socio-semiotics, narratology, and sociological applications of formal or interpretative analysis of texts.

For more details, please see: https://www.unitn.it/ateneo/bando/61296/dipartimento-di-sociologia-e-ricerca-sociale-avviso-di-selezione-per-il-conferimento-di-n-2-assegni (a pdf with further information can be found at the bottom of that page, called “Avviso di Selezione”)

Computational/digital sociology and social network analysis

The Trento Center for Social Research Methods is seeking to appoint two post-doctoral research fellows with experience in computational/digital sociology and social network analysis. This includes, among others:

• computational methods for “statistical learning” using R or Python,
• design and analysis of experiments, including field and online experiments and use of digital devices (e.g. smartphones, wearables),
• advanced social network analysis and recent developments in ERGM, SAOM/SIENA, multilevel and multimodal networks, large-scale networks,
• the quantitative analysis of texts through text mining and the use of techniques such as LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation), CTM (correlated topic model) and LSA (latent semantic analysis)
• the simulation of social phenomena with agent-based modelling (ABM).

For more details, please see: https://www.unitn.it/ateneo/bando/61292/dipartimento-di-sociologia-e-ricerca-sociale-avviso-di-selezione-per-il-conferimento-di-n-2-assegni (a pdf with further information can be found at the bottom of that page, called “Avviso di Selezione”)

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