PhD student (75-100%) / Post-doc (80-100%) in political communication 75% - 100%

The Institute of Communication and Media Studies (icmb) at the University of Bern is part of the Department of Social Sciences. It focuses on political communication in all its dimensions, exploring, for example, how digitalization, algorithms, but also social and psychological mechanisms shape communication.

• (potential for) collaboration in an SNF-sponsored cross-national research project about how the feeling of being left-behind by society influences political information usage and effects. Our project draws on the role of social identity and identity threats for political information behavior.
• development and implementation of own research ideas
• teaching of courses in the BA Social Sciences and supervision of BA thesis
• contribution to the general tasks of the institute

• above-average degree in communication science, a related social science discipline and /or psychology
• strong interest in political communication
• very good skills in quantitative (surveys & experiments) and/or qualitative (interviews) methods of empirical social science
• willingness to present research at (inter-)national conferences and to publish in top journals
• ability to work in a team
• very good command in English (German and French is a plus)

Applications, should be mailed as a PDF file by July 7th, 2025, to Prof. Dr. Silke Adam at E-Mail schreiben

The application should include:

• letter of motivation including research interests and ideas
• CV including a list of publications
• certificates
• a central chapter of the thesis or another publication
• recommendation letter