GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

Scientific career at GESIS At GESIS, researchers work in various phases of their scientific careers: as student assistants, doctoral candidates, postdocs, senior researchers, team leaders, and department heads. The institute's goal is to provide its scientific staff with the best possible support in their various career phase

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy
Pursue your scientific career at GESIS!
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Apply now for a job as a #ResearchAssociate (#PhD Candidate) Cross-platform Social Media Mining
(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, limited to 36 months)

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#CEWSColloquium #Intersectionality #GenderEquality #Inclusion #HigherEducation #INSPIRE

CEWS Colloquium on 25 March, 2 pm (online, in English): Prof. Yvonne Benschop on opportunities for policies towards intersectional equality.

More info & registration: www.gesis.org/en/cew...

The conference invites researchers from all disciplines using data from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) and/or the German Family Panel (pairfam), the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), and the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany”.

#cfp #cfa #CallforAbstracts
Call for Abstracts for the 4th International #FReDA User Conference, which will take place on 26–27 November 2026 in #Cologne.

Submission #deadline: 10 May 2026

Further information: www.gesis.org/forsch...

A particular focus is placed on intersectional dimensions of political resentment.

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#EDGE – New project with #HorizonEurope funding – GESIS in a coordinating role
With Alexia Katsanidou from GESIS and Sofia Vasilopoulou from KCL in the coordinating role, the EDGE project investigates how economic inequalities influence democratic support in Europe.

Scientific career at GESIS At GESIS, researchers work in various phases of their scientific careers: as student assistants, doctoral candidates, postdocs, senior researchers, team leaders, and department heads. The institute's goal is to provide its scientific staff with the best possible support in their various career phase

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #ComputationalSocialScience
Pursue your scientific career at GESIS!
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We offer a job as a Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science
(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, limited until 31.03.2029):

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#MeetTheExperts #mte #KODAQS #Toolbox #TES
Don't miss the talk by our expert Leon Fröhling about the Total Error Sheets for Datasets (TES-D) which offer a structured, template-based tool for documenting datasets collected from online platforms.
Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meet...

This study examines long-term patterns of political trust in Southern Europe through a comparison of Greece, Portugal, and Spain— countries that led the third wave of democratisation. Drawing on data from 45 Eurobarometer surveys (1997–2022), it tests four explanations of political trust.

#PoliticalTrust #Greece #Portugal #Spain
Out now: Christmann, Magalhães, and Vasilopoulou: "Divergent Paths of Political Trust in Southern Europe: The Roles of Economic Performance, Corruption, Congruence, and Polarisation." South European Society and Politics online first:
doi.org/10.1080/1360...

#gesisreport #news
The current gesis #newsletter is out now: Just read it online...

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#eurobarometer #eu #attitudes #europe
European Parliament
New: Flash EB 3592 (EP) "Social Media Survey 2025". Example item: "How often do you think that you have been personally exposed to disinformation and fake news over the past 7 days?"

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#GOR26: Today GESIS researchers present their results on data donation, survey recruitment in different channels and #methodshub, our new hub for tools, methods and tutorials for online research.

#MeetTheExperts #mte
New #video on #YouTube: Meet our expert Yannik Peters who highlights #TextPrep, a tool designed to assess how preprocessing methods, such as automated translation, or stopword removal, can significantly improve the quality of social media data.

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#GOR26 – interesting presentations are waiting for you.

We greet our #GESIS researchers presenting their research about response behavior, mixed mode and sampling strategies. Have a good time!

#BlueShell #EarlyCareer #SpeedNetworking
#GOR26 – don’t miss the Early Career Speed Networking Event:
www.conftool.org/gor...

GESIS supports young scientists! Meet you in Blue Shell in Cologne!

#eu #attitudes
New: Special #Eurobarometer 99.3.
Incl.
*Digitalisation of travel documents and Facilitation of travel
*EU citizens and development cooperation
*Climate Change
*Attitudes of Europeans towards tobacco and related products
http://dx.doi.org/10...

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#GOR26 #OnlineResearch
We welcome the GOR26 workshop participants at #GESIS! We wish you helpful insights and interesting discussions in your workshop about #AI support for Online Research.

Check out the programme of the following GOR, starting tomorrow: www.conftool.org/gor...

The symposium is non-archival; submissions may present new or previously published work.

#Deadline: Submit a 1-page extended abstract (NetSci format) by March 6, 2026 to: cpin@gesis.org

The symposium takes place as an official satellite of NetSci 2026.
We invite empirical, theoretical, and modeling contributions from all disciplines studying complex networks. Submissions from physics, computer science, biology, social sciences, the humanities, and related areas are encouraged.

#cfp #callforpapers
Call for Contributions: #CPIN2: Critical Phenomena In Networks

Critical Phenomena in Networks (CPIN2) is the second edition of an interdisciplinary forum dedicated to advancing the study of criticality in adaptive, real-world networked systems.
NetSci 2026

Meet-the-Data: Das #PIAAC Scientific Use File 2023, 19. März 2026, 13:15 – 14:00 Uhr, Online
GESIS-Kollegin Dr. Débora Maehler zeigt die PIAAC-Daten, die präzise Analysen u.a. zu #Kompetenzverteilung Erwachsener und #Chancengerechtigkeit ermöglichen:

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GESIS hat seine #Zugangskategorien und #Nutzungsbedingungen für #Forschungsdaten überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Die Änderungen betreffen unter anderem die Nutzung von Cloud Services, von KI-Diensten, die kommerzielle Nutzung oder die Nutzung durch Studierende.
Alle Infos: www.gesis.org/gesis-...

#FIDELIS #mentoring and peer-to-peer support programme: 1st open call, 27 Feb from 11-12 CET
Register for an overview of the support programme you can apply to join as a mentor or mentee in the 1st open call for FIDELIS-project.eu mentoring and peer to peer support: eden-fidelis.eu/even...

GESIS Workshop Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R 13 to 15 April 2026 | Online Lea Kaftan (GESIS) & Jens Wäckerle (Cologne Center for Comparative Politics)

Ready to dive into the exciting world of computational text analysis? In this #GESISworkshop, @dielea.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social cover core concepts and methods – from preprocessing and dictionaries to topic models and classification (with and without LLMs).

Info ➡️ t1p.de/TextAnalysisR

Deutschland-Monitor 2025 Der Deutschland-Monitor ist eine jährliche Studie zu politischen Einstellungen und gesellschaftlichen Stimmungen in Deutschland

...Vertrauen in politische und gesellschaftliche Institutionen, wahrgenommene Rückkopplung („Responsivität“) der Politik, sozialer Zusammenhalt, Lebenszufriedenheit und heutige Bilanz der Wiedervereinigung.

Zum aktuellen Bericht:

#DeutschlandMonitor25
Deutschland-Monitor 2025 online - Themenschwerpunkt: Wie veränderungsbereit ist #Deutschland? - mit aktuellen Daten zu Einstellungen der Bevölkerung mit Blick auf Veränderungsbereitschaft, Demokratiezufriedenheit, Populismus...

GESIS als Berufseinstieg GESIS bietet ein spannendes Arbeitsumfeld im Bereich der interdisziplinären Forschung an der Schnittstelle von Informatik und Sozialwissenschaften. Mit uns gelingt Ihnen der Start ins Berufsleben. Wir unterstützen Sie dabei! Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.gesis.org/institut/karriere/karrie

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Ausbildung zum*zur Fachangestellten für Markt- und Sozialforschung (FAMS) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure that socially relevant questions can be answered based on reliable data, the latest scientific methods and research information. We help with study planning and data collection, provide high-quality research data, support with data preparation and analysis, and finally with data archiving.GESIS helps you gain further qualifications. We offer our employees a wide range of career opportunities in an appealing work environment with a high degree of personal responsibility and creative freedom. With us, you will work in an international environment in the heart of Mannheim and Cologne and benefit from a flexible work environment as well as internal and external networks.GESIS ensures compliance with the guidelines for the severely disabled and promotes professional equality between women and men. Full-time positions can also be filled on a part-time basis.As a family-friendly employer, we have been certified by the “berufundfamilie” audit since 2010.Further information on working at GESIS can be found here. 

Die Abteilung Data and Research on Society, Team National Election Studies sucht eine*n
👉 Auszubildende*n zum*zur Fachangestellten für Markt- und Sozialforschung (#FAMS)(Ausbildungsvergütung gem. TVA-L BBiG; 1236,82 € im 1. Ausbildungsjahr).

#Ausbildung #GESISbildetaus
Du möchtest wissen, wie man herausfindet, was die Menschen in Deutschland politisch bewegt? Wie man politische Einstellungen erforscht und wissenschaftliche Studien durchführt?
Wir bieten zum 1. Sept 2026 für den Standort #Mannheim einen spannenden #Ausbildungsplatz!