Dear members of EPSA, Please see these two job postings (a PhD and a PostDoc) at the University of Copenhagen that may be relevant for your students and PhDs… All the best wishes, Wiebke Marie Junk Come to beautiful Copenhagen to research lobbying, informational quality, and public policy formulation at the Department of Political Science! The ERC-funded “Lobbying (A)symmetry: The Dynamics Behind Informed Policy” (LOBBYMETRY) project is hiring: A PostDoc (3 years)<https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger?show=163771> & a fully-funded PhD<https://employment.ku.dk/phd?show=163770> (typically 3 years) * Application Deadline: 5 June * Starting date: 1 February or as soon as possible by agreement * Applicant profile: Candidates from political science, sociology, or economics with aptitude for quantitative methods & an interest in lobbying, interest representation, and European public policy * Project description: The LOBBYMETRY project addresses two types of imbalances in lobbying: 1) mobilisation asymmetries, which exclude some actors from the policy debate, and 2) information asymmetries, which empower specific groups in their exchanges with policymakers. The project analyses these asymmetries and their relationship with each other, as well as their effects on the ways in which sectional and public interests feed into policymaking. The project studies these asymmetries across populations of interest organisations in twelve European countries and at European Union level, as well as within the climate and digital policy fields, which vary strongly in mobilisation asymmetries and constitute areas where well- or ill-informed policies have vast consequences for humanity at large. LOBBYMETRY strives to open the black-box of policymaker-lobbyist information exchange within these areas, develop measures of informational quality and accuracy in lobbying, and evaluate how and when lobbying pulls outcomes away from the public interest. Methodologically, the project combines cross-country surveys, cross-venue data on at least 100 issues in climate and digital policy, and different forms of participant observation of the information exchanges between policymakers and interest organisations in i) natural and ii) researcher-controlled settings. This combination of methods will generate unprecedented quantitative and qualitative evidence on lobbyist-policymaker information exchange in varying contexts. Find details about the Department here<https://politicalscience.ku.dk/> and all information relevant to apply via the following links: PostDoc <https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger?show=163771> PhD<https://employment.ku.dk/phd?show=163770> If you have questions about the positions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Wiebke Marie Junk (wiebke.junk@ifs.ku.dk<mailto:wiebke.junk@ifs.ku.dk>). The project is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. Wiebke Marie Junk Associate Professor University of Copenhagen Department of Political Science Øster Farimagsgade 5, Office: 18.2.11 DK-1353 København K Phone: +45 35 33 38 12 wiebke.junk@ifs.ku.dk<mailto:wiebke.junk@ifs.ku.dk> https://polsci.ku.dk/ansatte/PHD/?pure=da/persons/526719 Latest Publications: Hanegraaff, Marcel, Wiebke Marie Junk and Michele Crepaz (2025). Structural Lobbying Power? An Exploration of Patterns in Preference Attainment at Varying Levels of Lobbying Activity. Policy Studies Journal. Online First. Junk, Wiebke Marie, Crepaz, Michele, Aizenberg, Ellis, Berkhout, Joost, and Hanegraaff, Marcel (2024). Understanding lobbying dynamics through survey research: An introduction to the InterCov dataset<https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165241274046>. European Union Politics. Online First. Junk, Wiebke Marie, Crepaz, Michele and Aizenberg, Ellis (2024) Fight or flight: How access barriers and interest disruption affect the activities of interest organizations. European Journal of Political Research. 63: 1062-1081. ​ Junk, Wiebke Marie, Berkhout, Joost, Crepaz, Michele, & Hanegraaff, Marcel (2024). Advocacy intelligence and competition: Assessing lobbyists' sharing of tactical knowledge in focus group interviews. Governance, 37(2), 355–373. [Logo for Københavns Universitet]