Dear all,

The newly established Leuphana Transformation Lab offers six fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for research projects studying democratic resilience in the field of Political Science, Legal Studies and Economics.
Deadline for application: 1 October 2025

More information on potential research areas, supervisors, the application process and scholarships can be found here:
https://www.leuphana.de/en/graduate-school/career-funding/scholarship/embracing-transformation-phd-and-scholarship-programme/democratic-resilience.html

Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the scholarships in the field of Political Science.

Best wishes,
Sarah

Sarah Engler
Professor in Comparative Politics
Leuphana University Lueneburg

Dear all,

I have a 5-year, research-focused postdoc position in my ERC project „The Politics of the Educational Cleavage“.

I am looking for someone with a strong social science background and strong state-of-the-art quantitative text analysis skills (e.g. LLM/NLP) to work with us to better understand how education increasingly structures politics and society.

The project is located on our beautiful campus in Frankfurt in the middle of Europe, which hosts one of the largest social science departments in Europe and a strong research focus in the Institute for Empirical-Analytical Research (InFER) https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/67725421/InFER___Institute_for_Empirical_Analytical_Research.

Here’s the call and more info:
in German: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/176630184.pdf
in English: https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/176631001.pdf

Looking forward to your applications, and of course happy to answer questions,
Julian

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Julian L. Garritzmann
Professor of Political Science
Goethe University Frankfurt
https://sites.google.com/site/juliangarritzmann/
https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/42422317/

check out my new paper: From Educational Conflicts to an Educational Cleavage? The Multiple Transformations of Educational Conflicts from Medieval to Post-industrial Times https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402382.2025.2512295#abstract. West European Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2512295