Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Horizon Europe CCINDLE Project on Feminist Responses to Anti-Gender and Anti-Democratic Forces

Starting date:                     October/November 2022, exact date negotiable

Application deadline:        Review of applications will start 31 August 2022

Full- Or Part-Time:             Full-time for 36 months, possibility of extension for 10 more months, part-time

Location:                             Budapest

The Democracy Institute at CEU invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position within the framework of the Horizon Europe research project CCINDLE (Co-Creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe). The CEU team is led by Senior Research Fellow Andrea Krizsán (https://people.ceu.edu/andrea_krizsan ).

For more information about CCINDLE, please visit: https://democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/projects/co-creating-inclusive-intersectional-democratic-spaces-across-europe

Duties and responsibilities: 

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be expected to contribute to the development of the CCINDLE project’s methodological, theoretical, and empirical tasks. The researcher will engage in both collaborative and autonomous research work of collecting and analyzing data on anti-gender campaigns, and feminist movements and institutional actors’ responses to anti-gender and antidemocratic forces in Hungary and comparatively in Europe. The research work will be aimed at the preparation, drafting and submission of research reports to the European Commission, submission of high-quality publications, and organization of social impact activities in co-creation with civil society and institutional actors in Hungary.

Skills and qualifications:

• PhD in Political Science, Gender studies, Sociology, Human Rights or related discipline (to be defended within max 6 months after the application but no longer than 3 years before the application).
• Experience in qualitative (interviews, focus groups, policy frame analysis) research methodologies and analysis and preferably some knowledge of quantitative methodologies.
• Excellent written and spoken language skills in both English and Hungarian.
• Some background knowledge on the politics of inequality is required. Specific experience in gender and politics research is an asset.
• Strong interest in academic research, ideally proven through international publications.
• Ability to work effectively, both independently and collaboratively, in an international team.

What we offer

• A three-year full-time appointment based in the Budapest campus, with a possibility of extension for 10 months part-time.
• Integration in the CCINDLE research team, with excellent opportunities for international networking with top scholars on gender and politics in Europe and relevant civil society actors at national and European level.
• Integration in the Inequalities and Democracy research group of the Democracy Institute in Budapest, including professional mentoring.
• Competitive salary with full benefit package depending on university personnel rules and research experience (employment contract).

How to apply:

Applicants need to submit:

• up-to-date CV
• motivation letter explaining how your research profile relates to the project and what could be your contribution to the CCINDLE team 
• a writing sample (preferably single-authored publications)
• names and contact details of two references

Please send your complete application package as one single pdf file to: [email protected] - including the job code in the subject line: 2022/055.

Informal inquiries can be addressed to Andrea Krizsan at [email protected] .

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CEU is an equal opportunity employer.

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