Postdoctoral Researcher in "Applied Social Sciences": Adolescents’ Digital Lives, Online Engagement...

The Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) seeks to appoint an outstanding and strongly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher in Applied Social Sciences. We are searching for a researcher with excellent skills in quantitative analysis and/or mixed methods to contribute to an innovative research project on young people’s digital lives and well-being in Ireland.

The successful applicant will join Dr Pablo Gracia’s research team at TCD to work on an exciting project examining how teenagers’ digital engagement and online experiences impact their well-being across demographic and socioeconomic groups in Ireland. You will work as part of a vibrant multi-disciplinary group of social scientists and contribute to the project by doing fieldwork with Irish schools, helping to design questionnaires, arranging the data validity, conducting analyses, and writing and submitting scientific papers and reports together with the team members.

As part of the team led by Dr Gracia at TCD, you will join DIGYMATEX, a €3.5 million project on digitalisation and young people’s well-being funded by the European Commission (H2020). As a DIGYMATEX researcher, you will join an international network of 12 EU partners, collaborating with leading psychologists, sociologists, health researchers, economists, business scholars, and computational scientists. You will additionally join a highly stimulating academic community at the Department of Sociology (School of Social Sciences and Philosophy) of TCD.