Job Rank: Post Doc
Salary: E13 Salary Scale

Description:

Applications are invited for one 4-year, full-time postdoctoral research position as part of the project "Inequality Discourse Observatory" led by Miriam Butt and David Garcia. The project is part of the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" ( https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/ ).

The position is available as of January 1, 2026 and focuses on the collection and processing of large-scale corpora with methods from linguistics, NLP and computational social science to identify and analyze political discourse about inequality. We will be looking at a number of different situations (climate change and economic investment policies) across a number of different languages, thus valuing competence in the following languages: English, German, Swedish, Spanish, Urdu/Hindi, Tamil or any other South Asian language. This work will be a close collaboration with researchers from both Computational Social Science and Computational Linguistics, with additional collaborations with political scientists, economists, and sociologists.

Applicants should have a PhD degree in computational linguistics, computational social science, or related areas
Previous work on issues of automated political text analysis is an advantage
Knowledge of Python programming is advantageous

Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2025

Web Address for Applications: https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7778a86851392ef312bd63af1c9e55cffb7012c70
Contact Information:

Email: miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de