Dear colleagues, We are searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher (80-100%, three years) who works in our team to study the experiences, struggles, and policy demands of non-healthcare urban essential workers during the pandemic (such as bus drivers, day care personnel, waste collection workers, or delivery workers). This position is financed within the National Research Program 80 "Covid-19 in Society" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The candidate should have a PhD degree (or near completion) in human geography, urban sociology, public policy, planning or related social science disciplines. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been unequal depending on the resources and opportunities people have to cope with the multiple consequences of the pandemic. While some workers could continue their work from home, others had to step out and up, becoming or being identified as what we call now 'essential'. Intersectional burdens, expressed in the overlapping of race, class, and gender, have been reproduced throughout the pandemic, as care and maintenance work have fallen disproportionately on the shoulders of women, people of color, and migrants. We are going to study the experiences, struggles, and policy demands of urban essential workers with qualitative and quantitative social science methods in the five biggest Swiss cities. The main goals are to understand the effects of the pandemic on so-called essential workers in order to contribute towards the creation of policy measures that allows protecting vulnerable workers and to better respond to future crises. Please share and consider applying: https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_uwUYEjFs0cPGDlBNA5 Deadline for applications is 20 November 2022 --------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann Assistant Professor of Spatial Development and Urban Policy ETH Zürich Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development HIL H 29.3, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland Tel.: +41 44 633 94 84 kadavid@ethz.ch<mailto:kadavid@ethz.ch> https://spur.ethz.ch/ https://david-kaufmann.org/