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Genf, Genf, Schweiz Graduate Institute in Geneva VollzeitJob Overview:The Graduate Institute in Geneva invites applications for a postdoctoral research position in political science. The successful candidate will contribute to the FamilEA project, exploring family transformation in East Africa.Main Tasks:Conduct Fieldwork: Carry out individual fieldwork in Nairobi and Kampala, collecting data to support the...
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Genf, Genf, Schweiz Graduate Institute in Geneva VollzeitAbout the Role:We are seeking a highly skilled postdoctoral researcher to contribute to the FamilEA project, focusing on family transformation in East Africa.Main Responsibilities:Support the Project Team: Collaborate with the FamilEA team to achieve the project's objectives, including conducting fieldwork and analyzing data.Develop Policy Insights: Analyze...
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Genf, Genf, Schweiz Graduate Institute in Geneva VollzeitProject Overview:FamilEA is a research project that explores family transformation in East Africa, aiming to improve our understanding of family dynamics and their impact on society.Main Objectives:Develop Conceptual Framework: Establish an interdisciplinary conceptual foundation to guide the research.Mixed-Methods Approach: Combine quantitative and...
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Postdoctoral contract/research fellowship in political science
vor 4 Wochen
Postdoctoral Researcher/Research Fellow in Political Science or Related Fields with Focus on East Africa (2 years, 50%)
Funded in the context of Project FamilEA: The Remaking of the Family in East Africa, a research project sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2023-2027, ref.CRSII5_213547).
Project FamilEA seeks to understand the dynamics of family transformation in East Africa (Kenya and Uganda) by combining four strategies:
- Building a common interdisciplinary conceptual foundation;
- Combining a range of methods from across the social sciences and the humanities to build a common core dataset;
- Implementing, in two neighbouring countries with distinct family patterns, a comparative study design involving men and women, younger and middle-aged adults, capital cities and countryside, and various socio-economic groups and life trajectories;
- Involving discipline-specific individual projects that will stand in close dialogue with one another and with the core theory and dataset.
FamilEA’s core data includes a quantitative-qualitative survey, conducted in the two East African capitals of Kampala and Nairobi, which documents the size and changing structure of families along a number of parameters: co-residence, kinship, subjective importance, frequency of contacts, and physical distance. The survey further documents exchanges, obligations, rights, and conflicts between family members.
The postdoctoral fellow will help to unravel the tensions between legal/policy dispositions, on the one hand, and social realities on the other hand. Their work, developed through the prism of an individual project, will synthesize major trends in existing family-related policies in East Africa and draw attention to entanglements between legislation, public policies, and on-the-ground actions that affect family arrangements and compositions. They will engage FamilEA’s qualitative-quantitative survey data and help to set the forms of observed family constellations against those recognized within political and policy discourse.
In addition to the scholarly input of their individual project, the postdoctoral fellow will work closely with the FamilEA team, help to advance the project’s practical objectives related to policy outreach, translating the project’s findings into concrete recommendations, for example, by drawing attention to under-recognized family vulnerabilities that could benefit from improved public policies/legal reforms. To this end, the fellow will be also be tasked with directly engaging policy stakeholders—with whom dialogue already commenced early on in the project—and to formulate evidence-based policy recommendations.
The successful candidate is expected to join the FamilEA team in Geneva on the 1st of June, to attend FamilEA’s upcoming workshop in Nairobi (8-10th July 2025), and to conduct individual fieldwork in Nairobi and Kampala.
Necessary requirements
- A doctoral degree in political science or another field relevant to the position
- Excellent knowledge of English
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team
- Willingness to relocate to Geneva and to conduct several rounds of fieldwork in Kenya and Uganda
Assets
- Established familiarity with East Africa, and especially with family-related public policies
- Experience with interdisciplinary research and with mixed methods
- Established experience with academic collaborations and with interdisciplinary research projects, including overseeing the work of junior researchers
- Experience publishing in reputed peer-reviewed academic outlets
- Knowledge of additional languages spoken in Uganda and Kenya, as well as French
Candidates have to submit their application through the website before the 20th of March 2025. The requested documents include:
- Letter of motivation (one page)
- Research proposal (three pages max)
- Complete academic CV (including academic outputs, if applicable)
- Two writing samples (e.g. PhD chapters, academic publications if applicable)
- Names and contact details of two referees
