Dear colleagues, I am looking to hire PhD researcher for four-year positions within the CRC 1342 „Global Dynamics of Social Policy“ (more info here <https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/en/>), located at the University of Bremen and the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy. Specifically, I am seeking to fill _three positions_ at the earliest possible date: _One position_on Computational Social Sciences (75%) within the Information Infrastructure Project (INF, co-led with Andreas Breiter and Ivo Mossig). The project aims to establish innovative Computational Social Science (CSS) methods within Social Policy Research as part of the research data management for the CRC. For the call for applications, please see here <https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/the-university-as-an-employer/job-vacancies-1/job/4149?cHash=16b93522a21b525ebb3b11910212e5cb>. _Two positions_(70%) within the project „Welfare States and Protest: Understanding the Contentious Outcomes of Social Policy in Africa“ (co-led with Sebastian Haunss), which will investigate in a macro comparative perspective how social policy reforms and their generosity affect the occurrence of social policy related protests in a large sample of African states. Using LLMs and building on existing pipelines for the automation of protest event analysis, the project will build a protest event dataset for all countries in which English, French, or Arabic are one of the official languages (42 out of 54 countries). For the call for applications, please see here. <https://www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet/die-uni-als-arbeitgeber/offene-stellen/job/4157?cHash=3046de1c97a48fb97e206222a3b58db7> The deadlines are on January, 14^th . Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the positions. I would be grateful if you could circulate this to suitable candidates in your networks! Best wishes, Sophia -- Prof. Dr. Sophia Hunger Professor for Computational Social Science Institute for Sociology | SOCIUM University of Bremen