Weidenbaum Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Employer
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Location
- Saint Louis, Missouri
- Salary
- Up to $61,428 per year + benefits
- Closing date
- Feb 14, 2025
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- Position Type
- Fellowship, Postdoctoral
- Interest Area
- Behavioral & Social Science, Political Science
- Work Mode
- On-site
- Hours
- Full Time
- Employment Sector
- Academic
Job Details
We are pleased to announce a new Postdoctoral Fellowship in Survey Research through the Weidenbaum Center. This fellowship allows new Ph.D.s and early career scholars the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research using high-quality survey data collected by the Weidenbaum Center. This fellowship is uniquely situated at the intersection of academic and public-facing scholarship, allowing the fellow to pursue a multitude of career paths, contribute to research that directly affects important issues in American politics, and increase visibility of their research.
The Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications from recent Ph.D. graduates for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship. The fellowship will run for 12 months, starting on or around July 1, 2025, with the possibility of a one-year renewal.
The Weidenbaum Center has supported survey data collection efforts through The American Panel Survey (TAPS), The American Social Survey (TASS), and the Weidenbaum Center Survey (WCS). The Center’s most recent efforts have focused on the launch of the WCS, which is fielded three times each year, includes a sample of 3,000 respondents (2,000 general US adult population and oversample of 1,000 African Americans), with each survey paired with voter file data and web-tracking data for a subset of respondents. For more information on survey work supported by the Center, please visit: https://wc.wustl.edu/weidenbaum-center-survey-work.
The Fellow will work collaboratively with Taylor Carlson, graduate student fellows, and other Weidenbaum Center affiliates to support the launch of the Weidenbaum Center Survey and other data collection efforts through the Center. The Fellow will assist with the launch of an online dashboard that allows people to analyze and download the survey data, write public-facing reports describing key findings from the data, draft survey instruments, create publicly available data repositories, and conduct both coauthored and independent academic research.
We are seeking an individual with social science research interests who will advance the Center’s mission by engaging in collaborative and independent research and who will enjoy the opportunity to contribute to public scholarship (blog posts, reports, website graphics). We are especially interested in candidates with training in survey methodology and experience with public-facing scholarship (e.g., op-eds). Candidates should detail their experience in these areas in their cover letters and showcase any of these interests in the writing sample. We anticipate that the Fellow will spend most of their time working on Center-related and coauthored projects with Taylor Carlson and other Center affiliates.
Qualifications
We invite applications from qualified candidates who will have a PhD in hand by the time of the appointment, are no more than four years from the granting of their Ph.D. at the time of the submission, and who do not yet hold tenure-track academic positions.
Applications are evaluated against a broad set of criteria with special consideration given to contributions the candidate can make to academic diversity in our University community and more specifically to the study of survey methodology or addressing contemporary issues in American society with survey data.
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