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[Commlist] Job offers / Deadline for Applications are Dec 16, 2019 & Dec 12, 2019

Thu Nov 21 16:29:05 GMT 2019





*Research Associate (57 mos) -**Digital Campaigning and Electoral Democracy (DiCED)*

DiCED is a major new European Research Council funded comparative project that will study the drivers and effects of digital campaigning in 5 countries and 7 national elections during the period 2020-2024. It will use an exciting mix of established and innovative social and data science methods to investigate questions about the growth of ‘data-driven’ campaigning (DDC) within new and established democracies. Specifically, it will look at whether digital technologies and data are fundamentally changing how campaigns are run, who runs them, and their effects are on voters, parties and democratic systems more generally. DiCED is led by Professor Rachel Gibson at the University of Manchester and will be delivered by a team of country and methodological experts from the UK, Germany, France, Poland and the U.S. We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Research Associate with a PhD (or close to completion) in a relevant area with strong research skills to contribute to the conceptual and methodological development of the project. The RA will work with team members to design and conduct the fieldwork and play a key role in the data collection, curation, archiving and analysis phases of the project. The RA be involved in the co-production of research outputs from the project, and presentation of findings at national and international conferences, workshops, meetings and public engagements. Duration 57 months, tenable from February 1^st .

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*Closing Date*for applications*December 16^th 2019.*For further information contact: Professor Rachel (Gibsonrachel.gibson /at/ manchester.ac.uk) <mailto:(rachel.gibson /at/ manchester.ac.uk)>

Full details available herehttps://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/displayjob.aspx?jobid=18250 <https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/displayjob.aspx?jobid=18250>

*Research Associate (6mos) - Democracy@Risk Project*

Democracy@Risk examines the key threats that Digital Technologies pose to Democracy, and particularly free and fair elections. It is funded by the University of Manchester Research Institute.  The focus of the project is on identifying, measuring and responding to the new threats (and opportunities) that digital technologies and AI pose to the functioning of democratic institutions and the deeper cultural norms of trust that underpin them. We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Research Associate with a PhD or equivalent in a relevant area, with strong research skills, and experience of preparing literature reviews and syntheses of evidence.

Core responsibilities will include:

·Finding, reviewing, and synthesising existing research relevant to potential threats to democracy, including in the academic and grey literature;

·Contributing to workshops with UK and international researchers and policy makers, by identifying core themes and potential participants, participating in the meetings, and writing up findings;

·Co-writing a journal article and policy oriented report with the PI’s based on the literature synthesis and workshop outputs;

·Helping PIs in research roadmapping exercise and helping to identify sources of funding to implement the roadmap outcomes.

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*Closing Date*for applications*December 12^th 2019*For further information contact: Professor Rachel (Gibsonrachel.gibson /at/ manchester.ac.uk) <mailto:(rachel.gibson /at/ manchester.ac.uk)>

Full details available herehttps://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=18122 <https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=18122>

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