丹麦哥本哈根大学博士后职位招聘–计算社会科学、社会数据科学、心理学、其他社会科学学科或相邻学科
Who are we looking for?
The Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS; https://sodas.ku.dk/ ). Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, invites applications for a Post-doctoral position (100%, 36 months). Supported by the Tryg Foundation, the chosen candidate will primarily work in a project related to curiosity in children and adults, together with a PhD student at SODAS, a PhD student at the Department of Psychology, Guido Makransky (Department of Psychology), and Ingo Zettler (SODAS and Department of Psychology).
The position is available from 1 July 2024, but a sooner or later starting date is also possible.
The chosen candidate will be part of the research project “Shedding New Light on Curiosity in Children and Adults”. The main goal of this project is to generate new knowledge that can support children and adults in having a positive life both mentally and socially, by increasing the understanding of:
1) how to best conceptualize and measure curiosity in children and adults;
2) how interventions can foster individual’s curiosity levels;
3) the role of (different aspects of) curiosity for important outcomes.
The project has three intertwined work packages focusing on psychometrics; Virtual Reality (VR) measurement and interventions with children; as well as survey, experimental, and register data studies with adults.
The chosen candidate will be primarily responsible for the psychometrics and development of measurement instruments in the project. This includes using VR as a behavioral measurement instrument and the use of survey, experimental, and register data to establish sound measurements of curiosity in children and adults.
The chosen candidate is expected to publish scientific articles in international journals as well as to present findings at national and international conferences. In general, the position is research-focused, and funding is available for conducting studies, conference attendances, and a research visit such that the chosen candidate can maintain and increase their international network and research expertise. For the chosen candidate, there will be possibilities to influence the project and develop new project ideas within the project frame. In addition, the chosen candidate will also be asked to fulfill other work obligations (typically teaching or supervising thesis students) to a small degree in the overall period.
Applicants should have a master’s degree in computational social science, social data science, psychology, another social science discipline, or adjacent disciplines. At the latest when starting the position, applicants must also hold a PhD degree in one of these areas.
Next to interest in conducting research on curiosity, applicants should have experience with psychometric measurement, scale development, as well as conducting survey and/or experimental studies, including quantitative analyses. Having experience with register data and/or VR experiments is an additional strength, but no precondition. It is expected that applicants will publish in internationally recognized scientific journals in English, and that the chosen candidate will contribute continuously with their collaboration skills to the interdisciplinary, international research team. High proficiency in spoken and written English is thus a requirement.
What do we offer?
The successful candidate will become part of the SODAS research environment with around 40 researchers across different levels. SODAS is an interdisciplinary research, teaching, and impact center, combining traditional social science theories and methods with novel data science methods and paradigms. In collaboration with partners in Denmark and abroad, SODAS is home to research projects funded by, among others, the European Research Council (ERC) as well as both independent and private Danish research foundations. SODAS hosts the English-language Social Data Science (SDS) Master degree program at the Faculty of Social Sciences.