*Please circulate to excellent graduate students!* *Announcement: * *The University Carlos III Madrid (UC3M) and the Instituto Carlos III - Juan March invite applications for a doctoral researcher position in the ERC-funded project POLARCHATS (Prof. Simon Chauchard). * This is a four-year, fully funded PhD position on a project focused on misinformation and its consequences in the Global South. The deadline is April 29, 2022. If you qualify for the position, you will be part of an exciting, young, and dynamic department <https://www.uc3m.es/departamento-ciencias-sociales/inicio> connected to the IC3JM institute <https://ic3jm.es/>, in one of the best cities in the world <https://www.esmadrid.com/en>, in addition to the ability to complete a fully funded Ph.D. program (Pre-tax stipends ranges from 21,000 euros in the first year to 25,200 in the fourth year), As a member of the POLARCHATS team, you will be associated with several cutting-edge research projects on misinformation. You will also be able to receive additional skills training, to travel to India and/or Brazil, and to develop an independent research agenda. Applicants must have earned a recent Masters’ degree in political science, data science, computational social science, psychology, sociology, economics, or a cognate subject (feel free to consult with the PI at simon.chauchard@uc3m.es if you are not sure whether you are eligible). The successful applicant will be a core member of the POLARCHATS team, and they will contribute to some of the analyses at the core of the project. PhD research on the POLARCHATS project will focus on quantitative studies in India and Brazil and will involve the coordination of data collection in one or both of these countries, as well as their analyses. The selected researcher shall also develop an independent research agenda on themes related to the focus of the grant and/or to the research interests of the PI or other UC3M faculty, including (but not limited to) social media and politics, polarization, intergroup relations, social and political psychology, network analysis or other themes broadly related to political behavior.This is meant to allow candidates to build a profile beyond that of the grant and to encourage excellent candidates whose current work does not exactly focus on the cases or the topic of the grant (but is compatible with its focus) to apply. *Details about the position and the application process are available here:* https://ic3jm.es/phd-polarchats/ *(and in the attached document) * Best wishes, Simon Chauchard