Jobs

– Assistant Professor (postdoc) in Sociology, non-tenure track at University of Klagenfurt 

The position is attached to the Professorship of General Sociology (Allgemeine Soziologie) in the Department of Society, Knowledge and Politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Klagenfurt (Austria). Further details are available in the official job advertisement.

Preferred starting date: 1 September 2026
Level of employment: 100% (40 hours/week)
Minimum salary: €70,200.20 per annum gross; classification according to collective agreement: B1 lit. b
Fixed-term: 6 years

Application deadline: 8 July 2026
For further information, see the official job advertisement

– Senior Research Officer Sociology, Economic and Social Research Institute Dublin  

The ESRI is recruiting an experienced quantitative sociologist with a strong background in social stratification, educational inequality, social inclusion/ equality, or migrant integration research. The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary team working on policy-relevant research and will contribute to intellectual and project leadership. The position is tenure track, with a starting salary of €93,162 per annum (of which €7,298 is non-pensionable).

Candidates must have a PhD in Sociology, very strong quantitative skills, a record of securing research funding,  excellent communication skills and will typically have 8 years’ post-doctoral research experience.

Application deadline: 17 July 2026 5pm (Irish time)
Further details on the position and the institute are available on our website.

– Postdoctoral research position (100%) at ESPOL, Université Catholique de Lille

At the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL), Prof. Dr. Ilze Plavgo is offering a postdoctoral research position in within the UNEQUALCAREERS project. The project examines unequal career trajectories following the transition to parenthood, their impact on skill downgrading and income inequalities, and the ways in which family policy constellations shape and mitigate these dynamics.

Position: a post-doctoral research position (100%). Monthly gross salary €2,689. Duration 16 months.
Starting date: September 1, 2026.

Application deadline: 22 July 2026
More information and how to apply, see here.
Further information can be obtained by email from Professor Ilze Plavgo (ilze.plavgo@univ-catholille.fr).

– Postdoc in sociology of intergroup relations – University of Bern

The Institute of Sociology (IFS) at the University of Bern has a vacancy for a postdoc position with an employment rate of 80% starting January 1, 2027, or by arrangement. The postdoc’s main responsibilities will be to pursue research on intergroup relations, social networks, deviance, and related topics, and to contribute to research projects at the IFS and the department. Contributions to teaching activities in the Bachelor and Master curricula of the department are also expected. The salary ranges from CHF 91,000 to 108,000 depending on work experience (annual gross salary, excluding social security contributions by the employer, calculated on a full-time basis).

Application deadline: 11 August 2026
For further information, see the official job advertisement.

– Postdoc in digital demography – University of Bern

The Institute of Sociology (IFS) at the University of Bern has a vacancy for a postdoc position with an employment rate of 80% starting January 1, 2027, or by arrangement. The position is part of the Digital Society Lab initiative at the IFS. The postdoc’s main responsibilities will be to pursue research on the interrelations between demographic and digital transformations and to contribute to the development of a social science data platform together with a team of collaborators. Contributions to teaching activities in the Bachelor and Master curricula of the department are also expected. The salary ranges from CHF 91,000 to 108,000, depending on work experience (annual gross salary, excluding social security contributions by the employer, calculated on a full-time basis).

Application deadline: 11 August 2026
For further information, see the official job advertisement. 

– Researcher in Social Sciences at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University is currently accepting applications for a researcher position. The position is linked to the project, Making Time: Organised Labour and the Politics of Care Leave, funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The project combines social movement and welfare state development research and examines the role of trade unions and organized labour in advocating and shaping care leave policies. MakingTime is a mixed-method project that includes case studies of leave policy development in Ireland, France and the Netherlands. Process-tracing techniques will be used to examine the introduction and movement of leave legislation through the policy-making process. The researcher will therefore collect and analyze archival government documents and news media reports and identify and interview key political actors. Additional trade union leaders will be interviewed regardless of their involvement in leave policy advocacy.

The MakingTime project will hire one researcher for the French case study and one researcher for the Dutch case study. The current call is open for the applicant to select their preference for researching either France or the Netherlands. A PhD in sociology, political science or related discipline is required. The position will be devoted to the case study part of the project, which runs for a full-time equivalent of two years. Work in France/the Netherlands may be required.

Application deadline: 13 August 2026
For more information and to apply, please see here.
Further information can be obtained by email from Cassandra Engeman, cassandra.engeman@sofi.su.se

– Full-time postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) at the University of Potsdam

A full-time postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) is available at the University of Potsdam. I am seeking a candidate with a background in sociology, educational science, political science, psychology, or related disciplines. The successful candidate will contribute to research on education and the life course and to teaching.

Application deadline: 15 August 2026
For more information, see here.

– Director position at the WZB

The WZB Berlin Social Science Center seeks to establish a new research department and to fill the permanent full-time position of Director for the study of international relations, broadly understood, at the earliest possible date.

Application deadline: 20 September 2026
For more information see here.