The Hot Politics Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher who works on the broad theme of emotions and politics. We are specifically looking for a researcher who can extend our existing projects and who brings new expertise and new insights to the team. We are particularly thinking of candidates with expertise in quantitative text analysis, multimodal emotion recognition, physiology or survey experiments, but are also open to other expertise. The candidate also has a proven track-record with emotion research. Finally, we are looking for someone with an open science mentality and a willingness to collaborate.

Please check our website for more information on the Hot Politics Lab.

What will you be doing?

The postdoctoral researcher may propose an independent line of research within the broader context of the theme of emotions and politics. This may or may not be in collaboration with other researchers in the lab. We offer access to research facilities both offline (lab equipment) and online (large scale data collection). There is also a, limited, budget to facilitate this line of research. We expect the postdoctoral researcher to play an active role in the lab in terms of attending meetings, organizing meetings and supporting PhD students and interns.

You have:

• obtained – or are close to - a PhD diploma in political science, psychology, communication science or a dissertation on the topic of emotions and politics. You need to have defended your dissertation prior to your starting date;
• a demonstrated ability to work on the topic of emotions and politics;
• a demonstrated ability to work with a range of relevant techniques;
• a demonstrated ability to work with an open science workflow;
• experience with interdisciplinary exchanges.

You are:

• interested in working in an interdisciplinary lab;
• open to engaging with new approaches and working with people with various backgrounds.

Our offer

The position concerns a temporary employment of 38 hours per week for a term of approximately 16 months in total. The intended starting date of the position will be in consultation, but no later than 1 April 2021, and not earlier than 1 December 2020.

Salary depends on past education and relevant work experience, with a salary of €3,746 gross per month based on full-time employment for a 38-hour working week, in keeping with scale 11.0 from the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. We additionally offer an extensive package of secondary employee benefits, including a generous holiday scheme and year-end bonus. Because we value your continued personal development and professionalisation, we also offer excellent opportunities for study and development.

What else can we offer you?

A challenging work environment with a variety of duties and ample scope for individual initiative and development within an inspiring organisation. The social and behavioural sciences play a leading role in addressing the major societal challenges faced by the world, the Netherlands and Amsterdam, now and in the future.

To work at the University of Amsterdam is to work in a discerning, independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.