PhD Contract on Discrimination - Inequality cycle

The Centre for Research on Social Inequality (CRIS) at Sciences Po, Paris is seeking to appoint a PhD candidate to join the Research Team led by Prof. Mirna Safi working on the ERC-funded project “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces”.

Key responsibilities: In close collaboration with the Principal Investigator and other team members, the PhD candidate will develop their own doctoral research project and complete a PhD dissertation within three years. As a member of the research team, the PhD candidate will also contribute to the project’s activities, including:  

• Preparing complex data and conducting advanced quantitative analyses 
• Contributing to the design and collection of experimental data
• Drafting, submitting, and revising academic articles for publication in leading international journals in collaboration with other members of the research team
• Presenting and disseminating findings at international conferences, workshops, lectures, stakeholder meetings, and in public media outlets
• Contributing to the reporting and administrative activities of the research project

Key qualifications:

• Master degree in sociology or economics 
• Very strong quantitative methods skills including causal analyses and advanced programming. Relevant experience as a research assistant in data collection and analysis will be highly valued, as will a background or strong interest in research on social inequality and discrimination. 
• Strong ability to assume responsibility and work both independently and within a research project 
• Strong intrinsic motivation to contribute to DISEQUAL and develop own research  within the architecture of the project
• Fluency in English

DISEQUAL bridges the gap between research on discrimination (unequal treatment) and inequality (unequal outcomes) by exploring their mutually reinforcing relations – conceptualized as the Discrimination-Inequality Cycle. The project advances the field through three key objectives: 1) Assessing the relations between discrimination and inequality combining experimental and observational data; 2) Understanding how social-psychological mediators such as attitudes, beliefs and experiences perpetuate the Discrimination-Inequality Cycle; 3) Analyzing the role of policies in shaping and potentially breaking the cycle. DISEQUAL collects and harmonizes cross-national data encompassing various discrimination categories, with a focus on gender and ethnoracial groups, across multiple spheres of interactions, particularly hiring and rental housing. The project will combine insights from sociology, economics, political science and social psychology.
Please read carrefully the call for application here.