[Commlist] Senior Research Associate: Social Constructions of Climate Futures at University of Hamburg

Senior Research Associate: Social Constructions of Climate Futures at 
University of Hamburg

Universität Hamburg invites applications for a position as a Senior 
Research Associate in the field of Journalism and Media Studies (or 
related social sciences) with a strong expertise in the analysis of 
journalistic and social media content for the project “Social 
Constructions of Climate Futures” within the framework of the DFG 
Cluster of Excellence ‘CliCCS – Climate, Climatic Change and Society’, 
in accordance with Section 28 subsection 3 of the Hamburg higher 
education act (Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz, HmbHG). The position 
commences on the 1st of April 2019.

CliCCS is an ambitious research program at Universität Hamburg and its 
partner institutions. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), it 
is part of Germany’s Excellence Strategy. CliCCS’ overarching research 
question reads: Which climate futures are possible, and which are 
plausible? The project “Social Constructions of Climate Futures” 
explores how journalistic and social media, local discourses, scientists 
and stakeholders debate and imagine the future in the context of a 
changing climate - comparing debates in German speaking countries, the 
United States, India and Southern Africa.

The position is remunerated at the salary level TV-L 13 and calls for 39 
hours per week.

The fixed-term nature of this contract is based upon Section 2 of the 
academic fixed-term labor contract act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, 
WissZeitVG) and will end on December 31st 2025.

The University aims to increase the number of women in research and 
teaching and explicitly encourages women to apply. Equally qualified 
female applicants will receive preference in ac-cordance with the 
Hamburg act on gender equality (Hamburgisches Gleichstellungsgesetz, 
HmbGleiG).

CliCCS offers accompanying measures to help scientists thrive through 
all stages of their careers.

Responsibilities:

Conducting journalism and media studies on the construction of climate 
futures

Coordination and management of the project “Social Constructions of 
Climate Futures”

Contribution to project development under supervision of project leaders

Contribution to overall interdisciplinary synthesis of the Cluster of 
Excellence CliCCS

Specific Duties:

Conducting and combining automated and manual quantitative and 
qualitative content analysis

Developing and (co-)authoring articles to be published in international 
academic journals

Presenting research at international conferences

Science Management tasks (e.g. oversight of budget, organisation of 
cooperation between PhD researchers, workshop organisation)

Contribute to synthesis papers of the overall CliCCS project

Requirements:

Demonstrated interest in the field of climate, risk, science and 
environmental communication

Expertise in automated and manual content analysis

Good knowledge of multi-variate statistics

Basic knowledge of R or other programming skills

Basic knowledge of qualitative research or network analysis

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Native or advanced knowledge in English and German

Demonstrated experience and interest in project management

Ability to work proactively in an interdisciplinary team

An excellent university degree in media and journalism studies, related 
social sciences or neighboring disciplines (such as corpus linguistics), 
plus a very good or excellent doctorate in any of these fields.

Severely disabled applicants will receive preference over equally 
qualified non-disabled applicants.

For further information, please contact 
(michael.brueggemann /at/ uni-hamburg.de) or consult our website at 
https://www.cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/.

Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and copies 
of degree certificate(s) submitted as one single PDF file. The 
application deadline is 31.01.2019. Please send applications to: 
(christiane.krueger /at/ uni-hamburg.de).


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