Doctoral Researcher in the Social Sciences

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Doctoral Researcher in the Social Sciences Sintesi in italiano (traduzione automatica): La Scuola Svedese di Scienze Sociali dell'Università di Helsinki cerca un Ricercatore Dottorale in Scienze Sociali per un periodo fisso di 3,5 anni, a partire dal 1 ottobre 2026. Il ruolo è parte del progetto MAPS, che analizza l'impatto delle piattaforme digitali sul lavoro nei servizi attraverso la prospettiva dei migranti. Il candidato dovrà condurre ricerche indipendenti in studi critici sulla migrazione, sociologia del lavoro e studi sul lavoro delle piattaforme in Finlandia. È richiesta una laurea magistrale in un campo pertinente, come sociologia o antropologia culturale. Il ricercatore parteciperà anche alla comunicazione del progetto e all'organizzazione di eventi, con un massimo del 5% del tempo dedicato all'insegnamento. The Swedish School of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki invites applications for the position of DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES for a fixed term period of 3,5 years, starting on 1 October 2026. The position is part of the project MAPS: Mapping Fragmented Labour in the Platformised Service Sector through Migrant Epistemologies , funded by the Research Council of Finland and led by Dr. Olivia Maury . RESEARCH PROJECT MAPS aims to understand the pervasive influence of digital platforms in transforming service labour through a migration perspective. It stems from the need to better grasp how digital platforms seep into everyday life and reshape ways of working. Thus, the project is situated in a context of the transformation of work towards fragmented patterns of temporary employment, multiple job holding, ‘taskification’ of work into short gigs, and obscured lines between paid and unpaid labour. By highlighting migrants' experiences, the project challenges conventional, nationally circumscribed perspectives and the assumption of permanent employment, allowing for a renewed understanding of how platformisation plays out in the service sector. The research draws on ethnography among migrant workers and in the platform ecosystem in Finland to examine how labour evolves in a transformed landscape of data-driven realities, how hierarchical power structures influence labour agency and how platformisation engenders new forms of exploitation and extraction. ABOUT THE POST We are looking for a doctoral researcher who will undertake a doctoral project within the framework of the wider research project. While we expect the research plan to align with the key themes of the research project, applicants are encouraged to implement approaches to the topic relevant to their own expertise and scholarly interest. The main task of the appointed doctoral researcher is to conduct independent research at the intersection of critical migration studies, sociology of work and platform labour studies in Finland. The doctoral researcher will have the opportunity to be part of developing novel ethnographically oriented methods to study the platformisation of service labour in Finland from both the perspective of migrant workers’ lived experiences and from the perspective of the finance-technology nexus of platform companies The appointee will play a key role in project implementation and will be expected to complete an article-based PhD based on the empirical material produced, as well as to participating in project communications, organising project events and other tasks relating to the project. Duties will also include teaching (up to 5% of annual working time). QUALIFICATIONS AND SELECTION CRITERIA Applicants should hold a Master’s degree in a field that is relevant to the research topic (e.g. sociology, human geography, cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology). The candidate should have proven ability, motivation and independence, demonstrated through previous degree studies or otherwise, to pursue postgraduate studies. The appointee will need to have secured the right to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki by the start of the appointment, or must apply for the right and obtain it within the six-month probationary period. Further information can be obtained online . We appreciate expertise by the candidate in one or several of the following research fields: tech-finance, platformisation, and digitalisation critical migration studies and decolonial theory migration and labour from the perspective of legal theory/ law Applicants’ skills and motivation to conduct research on this project will be evaluated on the basis of their application documents and an interview. The successful candidate will have excellent analytic and writing skills in English and will be able and motivated to conduct independent work on the platformisation of service labour in Finland. The appointee will be expected to reside in Annuncio in inglese. Fonte: Euraxess (Commissione europea).