The Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) is hiring a quantitative postdoctoral researcher to join the ERC-funded project, ‘SINGLE – Understanding the Demography and Stratification of Singlehood in Europe’. This is a full-time position for three years, based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) campus, just outside of Barcelona.
They are looking for a motivated, curious quantitative social scientist whose work fits within or expands the project’s scope. Singlehood is an emerging area of social science research, and relevant expertise may take many forms that are not necessarily labeled as “singlehood research.” In addition to candidates studying singlehood directly, they welcome candidates whose research related to relevant demographic behaviors, populations, and life-course transitions, or the role of marriage/partnerships in shaping key social, economic, health, or interpersonal outcomes relevant to the project’s scope. They are particularly interested in researchers who could leverage the project’s comparative framework, secondary data infrastructure, and original survey to strengthen their own research agenda. The postdoc will be encouraged to develop innovative theoretical or methodological approaches to singlehood. The postdoc will also play a key role in the survey’s intellectual development and support its implementation, working with the PI, external survey methodology consultants, the survey company, and other research staff. Experience with original surveys and a professional interest in developing survey leadership experience is particularly valuable, but survey methodology expertise is not required.
You can find the full job description and more information here.