The desired start date is 1 October 2024. The research assistant will support research projects on European and parliamentary politics.

Tasks:

• Support of research projects conducted at the Chair
• Collecting and managing data on elections, cabinets, political parties, and members of parliament
• Support in validating political speech data, including hand coding and text annotation
• Support in pre-testing of surveys and survey experiments

Prerequisites:

• Enrollment in the political science BA or MA or a related social science program
• Strong motivation and commitment to support the Chair in producing high-quality scientific research and data
• Ability to work in teams as well as independently
• Interest in working with quantitative political data
• Experience with or strong motivation to learn data management procedures in R
• Good oral and written English skills
• Additional language skills are an asset

We offer:

• Pay according to standards of the University of Cologne for research assistants (13,25 Euro/hour for BA students, 14,80 Euro/hour for students with a Bachelor degree)
• Opportunity to gain first-hand experience in working in a research team, ongoing research at the Chair, and applied text and survey data analysis
• Flexible work hours that suit your weekly course schedule
• Ability to work remotely or in the Chair’s office spaces
• Opportunity to write BA or MA thesis supervised by members of the Chair Application

Please submit your application in English (letter of motivation, CV, grade transcript, and possibly additional evidence of qualifications) as a single PDF file to paula.hoffmeyerwiso.uni-koeln.de. Application deadline is 14 July 2024. Interviews will probably be held on 18/19 July 2024.

Read full announcement here.