University of Bern, Institute of Sociology
Start of employment: March 1, 2025 or by arrangement
The employment is limited to four years.
The Institute of Sociology (IfS) at the University of Bern is looking to fill a position as a doctoral student with an employment rate of 75% – 100% starting March 1st or by arrangement. The position is part of an international project that examines the influence of work-related gender norms on women’s participation in the labor market.
The IfS is part of the Department of Social Sciences (consisting of sociology, political science and media studies) at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. The IfS is jointly managed and brings together a dynamic team of researchers with expertise in, among others, social structure analysis, sociological theory, environmental, organizational and economic sociology, methods of empirical social research, and computational social science.
- Research activity for further scientific qualification (doctorate)
- Collaboration on the above-mentioned research project
- Further training as part of the doctoral program
- Support for IfS courses
- Participation in academic activities of the IfS
- Interest in answering social science questions
- Very good degree in sociology or a related discipline
- Very good knowledge of analytical sociology and empirical social research
- Very good knowledge of statistical data analysis with R, Stata, or similar software
- Experience in dealing with survey and register data
- Very good knowledge of German and English
- research activities on current and socially relevant topics
- scope to design your own research project
- Further training opportunities within the doctoral program
- Close and individual supervision of the doctoral thesis
- Integration into a friendly and cooperative team at the IfS
- Excellent working conditions at the University of Bern
- Salary according to the regulations of the Swiss National Science Foundation for doctoral students (average gross salary of approx. CHF 50,000 pa)
A first round of online interviews with selected candidates is expected to take place on January 15, 2025.
