**The EUI has an open vacancy for a**
**Research Fellow in the**
**Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies**
**Florence, 19 November 2024**
**Reference: V/RF/RSC/97/2024**
**Who we are
**The **European University Institute** (EUI) at a glance:
- an **international organisation** set up in 1972;
- a research university focusing exclusively on **postgraduate**, **doctoral** and **post-doctoral studies**, and
advanced research;
- located in the hills overlooking the city of Florence, Italy.
The Institute also hosts the Historical Archives of the European Union.
The **Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies** (RSCAS) is an inter-disciplinary research centre at the
heart of the European University Institute (EUI). It was established in 1992 to complement the four EUI
disciplinary departments (Economics, History and Civilization, Law, Political and Social Sciences) with the aim
to be involved in both basic and policy research, collaborate with other centres of excellence in Europe, provide
opportunities for young scholars and promote dialogue with the world of practice. The Centre's goal is to maintain
an environment and support structure that fosters intellectual curiosity and excellent research.
**Employment details**
**Contract type **Full-time (30/30, 40 hours/week)
**Length of contract **34 months. Start date: September 2025 (or earlier if possible)
This contract may be further renewed (several times and conditional to the
availability of funds), leading to an extension of the period of service up to a total of
5 years, including the first contract period.
**Salary indication and **Grade: CDR3 step 1
**grade**
The basic net monthly salary after taxes is approximately 3,750 Euro, plus
allowances if applicable.
More information about conditions of employment is available here.***
**Place of work **Florence, Italy
**About the project**
**Project Director **Prof Daniele Caramani
GLOBAL is a macro project that investigates the dimensionality of global politics. It **Project details**
analyses the cleavages that structure world politics and asks whether conflicts are
shaped territorially or along functional dimensions cutting across world regions.
Global cleavages are addressed in a long-term empirical analysis from the 19th
century to the present. The goal is to establish if, and under what conditions,
international divisions opposing world regions - core periphery, North South, or
civilizational contrasts -increasingly blur giving way to conflict lines that oppose
groups functionally. This is done at the level of citizens, actors and institutions.
GLOBAL combines a comparative approach (between the largest world polities)
and supranational one (global actors, attitudes, discourse and institutions). The
project categorizes cleavages according to three types of inequality: economic,
political-military and socio-cultural. It focuses on how actors compete to politicize
different inequalities.
A multi-pronged research strategy based on statistical, scaling and network
methods is used to analyse electoral, socio-economic, roll-call, text, survey and
organizational data. The project is organized in 4 work packages based on methods
and data: (1) voting, organizational and network analysis (2) discourse and text
analysis (3) scaling techniques with roll-call data (4) survey analysis. Each post
- doctoral research fellow takes responsibility for a work package.
GLOBAL will lead to an authored book by the PI that follows work on the
nationalization and Europeanization of politics, as well as a special issue, an edited
volume, and 11 journal articles by the research team.
The position is 1 of 4 post-doctoral positions in the ERC Advanced Grant project **Job description**
"Global Cleavages: The Shape of Political Conflict across World Regions in
Historical Perspective" (GLOBAL, 2023-28, 2.5 million Euro) led by PI Daniele
Caramani and hosted by the Robert Schuman Centre (EUI).
The position is focused on **dimensionality analysis with roll-call votes**.
The Research Fellow will carry out research work in an independent manner and
collaborate on the research work of the project. Main tasks include:
- Leading the work package devoted to voting, organizational and network
analysis;
- Carrying out high-quality research toward the goals of the project, in an
independent and collaborative manner;
- Engaging in data collection, management and analysis, working
theoretically and producing literature reviews, producing graphs and
tables;
- Authoring and co-authoring papers and publications in the frame of the
project and with project members;
- Presenting research results and output at international conferences
worldwide;
- Working in a team together with PI Daniele Caramani, 3 other post
- doctoral fellow, and various research assistants, as well as members of an
international research network on the topics of the project;
- Collaborating in disseminating research results through the