Student Assistant (m/w/d)at the Professorship in the Politics of Finance

31.10.2022, Wissenschaftliches Personal

The Professorship in the Politics of Finance (Prof. Dr. Amy Pond) is looking to hire two student research assistants (m/w/d), for 6 to 9 hours per week each, to start as soon as possible.

The research assistants will have the opportunity to work on various different projects in political economy, focused on firm preferences and policy influence and the social media use of politicians. Ideally, one student should have interests and skills compiling and analyzing data; the other student should have interests and skills conducting historical research.

Qualifications
• Enrollment in a bachelor’s or master’s program in political science, economics, or computer science
(concentration in international political economy, comparative politics, international relations, or quantitative methods is desirable)
• Interest in social science research
• Reliability, commitment, and independence
• Excellent English skills (German is a plus but not necessary)
• Excellent software skills (in particular Stata or R)

Tasks
• Case study research and data coding
• Compiling, cleaning, and working with datasets
• Collecting/scraping text for analysis
• Data visualizations

Our offer
• Insights into research at the Professorship in the Politics of Finance
• Flexible working hours and workplace
• Salary according to standards at Technische Universität München reference will be given to disabled candidates with essentially the same qualifications. The Munich School of Politics and Public Policy strives to increase the employment of women, qualified women are therefore explicitly encouraged to apply.

Application
Your application should include a short cover letter (no more than one page), a CV, and a transcript of courses taken so far. Please send your application documents – exclusively per E-Mail and in one single PDF-Document – by November 30, 2022 (review of the applications will begin on November 15) to:

Prof. Dr. Amy Pond
Richard-Wagner-Straße 1, 80333 Munich
E-Mail: [email protected]

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