Academic, Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow
Area of Research: Political Behavior and Political Communication
Description of duties: The postdoctoral fellow will be mainly responsible for designing and executing surveys and experiments and writing collaborative papers.
Salary: $45,000 per year, plus standard benefits
Required qualifications:
- A completed PhD in political science or a related field (e.g., public policy or economics)
- Experience programming and fielding online surveys using Qualtrics
- Experience designing and programming survey experiments
- Experience with quantitative analysis — including the analysis of observational and experimental data — using either R or Stata
- Substantive expertise in the study of political behavior and political communication (country area open)
- An interest in — and a willingness to learn about — Canadian politics
- Strong interpersonal skills and enthusiasm for collaborative research
Who we are:
The Policy, Elections, and Representation Lab (PEARL) (https://www.pearlmunk.com/) is hiring a postdoctoral fellow in political behaviour and political communication.
Led by Professor Peter Loewen, PEARL is a team of postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and master’s students located in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/) at the University of Toronto (https://www.utoronto.ca/).
PEARL’s mission is to deliver timely, academically rigorous, and publicly relevant research that answers three big questions: How do individuals make decisions about politics? How do politicians make policy and represent citizens? And how is technology changing governance and politics?
We offer a welcoming and supportive work environment with significant opportunities for collaboration, learning, academic publication, and publicly-engaged research.
Application instructions:
All individuals interested in the position must submit the following documents by the closing date to john.mcandrews@utoronto.ca using the subject line “PEARL Postdoc —
[Your Name]
- A covering letter outlining how you meet the qualifications for the position
- Your CV
- A research sample that showcases your skills (e.g., a dissertation chapter, a conference paper, or a published article)
- The names of two academic referees
Closing date: January 15, 2021
Supervisor: Professor Peter Loewen
Expected start date: As soon as possible
Term: 12 months
Location: Initially remote, but transitioning to in-person work at the University’s downtown Toronto campus when circumstances permit
FTE: This is a full-time position. The normal hours of work are 40 hours per week for a full-time postdoctoral fellow, recognizing that the needs of the employee’s research and training and the needs of the supervisor’s research program may require flexibility in the performance of the employee’s duties and hours of work.
Employment as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto is covered by the terms of the CUPE 3902 Unit 5 Collective Agreement.
This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 5 Collective Agreement.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
Deadline: January 15, 2021