---------- 3yr PhD scholarship on Mapping & Harnessing Public Mistrust Griffith University, Australia Apply by Monday 30 June We are currently looking for a PhD candidate to join an Australian Research Council-funded team, which is mapping and studying public trust and mistrust in political institutions and systems in Australia<https://www.griffith.edu.au/research-study/scholarships/harnessing-public-mistrust>. The three-year scholarship will commence by December 2025. The award is for approximately AUD35,000 per year. The project involves a five-member senior multi-university research team, along with a post-doctoral fellow and three doctoral students. Successful candidates will have access to high quality, national, experimental data on citizen perceptions and attitudes, through new waves of the Australian Constitutional Values Survey. The Griffith University scholarship will be based in the School of Government and International Relations at the Nathan (Brisbane) campus, supervised by the project leader Professor A J Brown and Dr Max Grömping. Online applications are now open until 30 June 2025 on the Griffith University website: https://www.griffith.edu.au/research-study/scholarships/harnessing-public-mistrust. The successful candidate will need to be in Australia and able to take up the scholarship before 31 December 2025. ---------- -- Max Grömping (He/Him) Senior Lecturer | Director, Research School of Government and International Relations Griffith University | Nathan | QLD 4111 | Australia E m.groemping@griffith.edu.au<mailto:m.groemping@griffith.edu.au> | W www.maxgroemping.com<http://www.maxgroemping.com/> ORCID 0000-0003-1488-4436<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-4436> | bsky @maxgroemping.bsky.social<https://bsky.app/profile/maxgroemping.bsky.social> Selected recent publications: - 2025. The reliability of replications: A study in computational reproductions<https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241038>, Royal Society Open Science, 12(3), 241038. (w N Breznau et al.). - 2024. Alert, but not Alarmed: Electoral Disinformation and Trust During the 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum<https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.429>, Policy & Internet, 17, e429 (w A Carson et al.). - 2024. What Explains Interest Group Prominence in Parliamentary Speech? Policy Agenda, Partisanship, or Conflict Expansion<https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241232934>, Political Studies, 73(1), 196-217 (w D Halpin et al.). - 2023. Online Disinformation predicts Inaccurate Beliefs about Election Fairness among both Winners and Losers<https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231193008>, Comparative Political Studies, 57(6) 965-998 (w M Mauk). - 2023. Lobbying the Autocrat. The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies<https://www.press.umich.edu/12414985/lobbying_the_autocrat>. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press (edited w JC Teets). griffith.edu.au [cid:image001.jpg@01DBD205.83A85C40]<https://www.griffith.edu.au/> Griffith University acknowledges the people who are the traditional custodians of the land and pays respect to the Elders, past and present, and extends that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Brisbane South (Nathan) is situated on the land of the Yugarabul, Yuggera, Jagera and Turrbal peoples. Griffith University - CRICOS: 00233E | TEQSA: PRV12076 PRIVILEGED - PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this email and you are not the addressee or responsible for delivery of the email to the addressee(s), please disregard the contents of the email, delete the mail and notify the author immediately.