Postdoctoral Opportunities

Training
  • The Kansas Data Science Consortium (KDSC) is a project housed at the Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR), a faculty-driven research center supporting social scientists who focus on social problems and policy-relevant research questions. The KDSC at the University of Kansas invites candidates to apply for a Postdoctoral Researcher position for a 9-month appointment. The position is expected to begin as early as September 1, 2026. KDSC is particularly interested in candidates who aspire to become academic researchers in applied microeconomics (particularly labor and education), environmental economics, or international trade.
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong invites applicants for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to work with Professor Yue Qian in the Department of Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Applicants should have (i) a Ph.D. in Sociology, Demography, Family Studies, or other related disciplines; (ii) the ability to conduct independent research, with an outstanding track record of publications in English-language journals; (iii) proficiency in advanced quantitative data analysis, with excellent skills using Stata, R, Python, and/or other statistical software; and (iv) an excellent command of written and spoken English. Candidates who have experience with computational methods or computational approaches to family and gender research are welcome to apply.
  • The Education Policy Initiative (EPI) at the University of Michigan seeks candidates interested in deepening their knowledge of education research, policy topics, data, and quantitative methods for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. EPI will hire up to two postdoctoral fellows to begin as soon as possible, in the summer or fall 2026. Prospective fellows should be interested and have experience in applied education research. Fellows will work in the context of state research practice partnerships (RPP), utilize various programming languages to build and enhance administrative data sources, and conduct quantitative research in collaboration with scholars at EPI. Depending on the interests of those hired, fellows will receive close mentorship from professors Kevin Stange, Katherine Michelmore, and Natasha Pilkauskas. Fellows will also have the opportunity to work with and learn from other Ford School faculty, such as Brian Jacob, Christina Weiland, Sarah Cohodes, full-time EPI staff, and other EPI affiliate faculty.
  • The Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography to work in the area of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post holder will join the European Research Council-funded project DIVREP: Diverging Patterns of Reproductive Behaviour within Countries Across the Globe, led by Dr Ewa Batyra (ERC Starting Grant). DIVREP will be the most comprehensive global study of the patterns, trends, and determinants of growing within-country disparities in reproductive behaviour, with a focus on childbearing age and fertility levels. The Postdoctoral Researcher will be expected to engage in advanced independent research within the remit of the project. They will be expected to publish research of an internationally excellent standard and to participate in the academic life of the interdisciplinary research team and the Department of Sociology. The post is full-time, fixed term for a period of 3 years.

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