Source: University of Minho (Portugal) From Plataforma 9 The Center for Ethics, Politics and Society - CEPS of the University of Minho opens a call for two (2) research grants, designated as Doctorate Research Grants, in the area of Ethics and Political Philosophy, under the FCT (RBI) Research Grant Regulations and the Research Grant Holder Statute (EBI). CEPS is an organic research unit of the Institute of Arts and Humanities of the University of Minho that aims at high-level scientific research in the area of Philosophy, especially in the fields of Political Theory and Applied Ethics. The scholarships will be funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the Collaboration Protocol for Funding the Multiannual Plan of Research Scholarships for PhD Students, signed between the FCT and CEPS under the reference UID/04952/2020.

Source: University of Amsterdam PhD's position at Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences – Amsterdam School of Communication Research The Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) is the research institute for the Communication Science department at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. We are seeking a PhD candidate with a background in communication science to join us in our lab to work on explainable AI in news and entertainment.

Source: University of Vienna (Austria) Post-doctoral position (4 years, full-time) (ERC-funded project ‘DEPART: The de-party-politicization of Europe’s political elites’, PI: Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik). The Department of Government at the University of Vienna invites applications for a 4-year postdoctoral position in the ERC Starting Grant project DEPART, headed by Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik. The project investigates how the careers of political elites in 30 European democracies have changed since 1945 and how this affects policy outcomes and political accountability. A more in-depth description of the project can be found here.

Source: Loughborough University The Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C) at Loughborough University is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to work with Professor Andrew Chadwick and Professor Cristian Vaccari on a new, Leverhulme-funded, research project, Understanding the Everyday Sharing of Misinformation on Private Social Media.