<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I wanted to send along this post-doc opportunity.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Jenn<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jennifer Oser</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:oser@post.bgu.ac.il">oser@post.bgu.ac.il</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, May 3, 2023 at 4:58 AM<br>Subject: Request to share this Postdoc Position Call on Participation and Representation<br>To: Jennifer Oser <<a href="mailto:oser@bgu.ac.il">oser@bgu.ac.il</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<br><br>I write with a personal request to share the Call for Applicants (below and attached) with relevant colleagues.<br><br>I know from my own experience that this kind of unusual postdoc research opportunity that is largely remote can be an excellent opportunity -- especially for highly motivated researchers who have excellent communication skills.<br><br>As noted in the formal call, I’ll emphasize that this is the first year of a 5-year project. I warmly welcome informal inquiries from relevant graduate students, postdocs, and senior researchers who may be interested to join the team in the future based on the website’s project description, even if this particular call isn’t the right fit for them.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><font color="#999999">Jenny</font><div><font color="#999999"><br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify;font-size:small">Prof. Jennifer Oser</b><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Associate Professor of Politics and Government</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ben-Gurion University, Israel</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://www.jenniferoser.com/" target="_blank">Academic website</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Subject:
Postdoctoral Position on Participation and Representation, ERC-funded</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear
Colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I welcome
applicants for a postdoctoral position (2-3 years) to join my European Research
Council (ERC) project (1.5 million Euro, 2023-2028) on “Participation and
Representation in the Digital Age,” hosted by Ben-Gurion University in Israel. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This postdoctoral
research position can be conducted largely remotely</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> for candidates
who prefer to be physically located in universities throughout the European
Union (EU), EU-affiliated countries, the United States, and Canada. <b>For
candidates who wish to be located in Israel</b>, office space can be arranged
at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/default.aspx" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ben-Gurion
University</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">—which is consistently highly ranked for student life by Israeli
students—as well as in other Israeli universities and institutions throughout
the country. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The project
investigates the implications of the global trend of the past few decades that
voting has declined, while non-electoral participation—like protest, and
digital activism—has increased. See additional information about this project (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.jenniferoser.com/erc-starting-project" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">) and its
international collaborators (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.jenniferoser.com/team-3" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
research-focused role of this full-time position is to produce high-impact
peer-reviewed research based on the construction of a harmonized dataset of
cross-national surveys on political participation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The salary is a
competitive ERC-funded position (approximately 65,000 Euro per year for a
full-time position).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Applications
submitted by <b>May 25, 2023 </b>are guaranteed full consideration. Applications
will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Further detail
is provided in the attached pdf, and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://70cc1775-9b97-4036-ac45-91567d5c5a5d.filesusr.com/ugd/8f5c33_e2cbbbb72297496db936cdb1b1b20f35.pdf" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I welcome
informal inquiries - including from current graduate students (MA, PhD) and
postdocs who may be interested to join the project’s multi-method team in the
coming 5 years of the project.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Best wishes, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray">Jenny</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray">Prof. Jennifer Oser</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray">Associate Professor of Politics
and Government</span></p>
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website</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:gray"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">***Recent
publications related to the ERC project***</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Oser, J.,
Grinson, A., Boulianne, S., & Halperin, E. (2022). How political efficacy
relates to online and offline political participation: A multi-level
meta-analysis. <b><i>Political Communication</i></b>. 39(5): 607-633. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2022.2086329" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2022.2086329</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Oser, J.
(2022). The effectiveness of different forms of participation. In M. Giugni
& M. Grasso (Eds.), <b><i>The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation</i></b>.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-political-participation-9780198861126?cc=uk&lang=en" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-political-participation-9780198861126?cc=uk&lang=en</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bakk, Z., Di
Mari, R., Oser, J., & Kuha, J. (2022). Two-stage multilevel latent class
analysis with co-variates in the presence of direct effects. <b><i>Structural
Equation Modeling</i></b>: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 29(2), 267-277. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2021.1980882" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2021.1980882</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Oser, J.
(2022). Protest as one political act in individuals’ participation repertoires:
Latent class analysis and political participant types. <b><i>American
Behavioral Scientist</i></b>, 66(4), 510-532. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211021633" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211021633</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dassonneville,
R., Feitosa, F., Hooghe, M., & Oser, J. (2021). Policy responsiveness to
all citizens or only to voters? A longitudinal analysis of policy
responsiveness in OECD countries. <b><i>European Journal of Political Research</i></b>,
60(3), 583-602. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12417" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12417</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="color:gray"></span></span></p><br><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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