Two Doctoral Positions in "Inequality Discourse Observatory" - Project at the Cluster "The Politics of Inequality"

Universität Konstanz

Two Doctoral Positions in “Inequality Discourse Observatory” - Project at the Cluster “The Politics of Inequality” (part-time 75 %, salary scale E13 TV-L)

Reference no.: 2025/218.

Applications are invited for the following: Two 4-year, part-time 75 % doctoral research positions as part of the project "ln-equality Discourse Observatory" led by Miriam Butt and David Garcia. The project is part of the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/). The positions are available as of January 1,2026 and involve the automatic identification, analysis and automatic extraction of linguistic cues for NLP applications that detect topics and framing with respect to political discourse about inequality. We will be looking at a number of different situations (climate change and economic Investment policies) across a number of different languages and are searching in particular for competence in the following languages: English, German, Swedish, Spanish, Urdu/Hindi, Tamil or any other South Asian language. The researchers will work closely with researchers from both Computational Social Science and Computational Linguistics in an international and interdisciplinary environment, including political science and economics. Contacts for questions about this position: miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de and david.garcia@uni-konstanz.de. We look forward to receiving your application documents (cover letter, a full CV and one writing sample (paper or thesis) via our Online Application Portal by November 15th, 2025. The deadline for applications remains open until the position is filled. The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity, as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our dual career programme. Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact sbv@uni-konstanz.de, +49 7531 88-4016).