Organisation/Company Universitat Pompeu Fabra Department Political and Social Sciences Research Field Other Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Bachelor Positions Country Spain Application Deadline 26 Jun 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Horizon Europe - ERC Reference Number Grant agreement No. 849165 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
The junior researcher will work in the project titled “New opportunities to enhance or extend (mobile) web survey data and get better insights
The main goal of this project is to investigate how four new measurement opportunities that the growing presence of mobile devices made possible (namely voice input, visual data, metered data, and in-the-moment surveys) can help scientists and practitioners to get more accurate and/or more complete insights. More information about the project is available on its webpage: https://www.upf.edu/web/webdataopp
The research team has offices in the UPF Ciutadella Campus (building Mercè Rodoreda 24) in Barcelona.
Maintasks : The main tasks for the junior researcher can include:
* To help reviewing the literature on specific topics and write the corresponding introduction and background sections for the papers.
* To help in designing, pretesting, or analyzing surveys and experiments.
* To code the answers to open questions (usually in Spanish) according to predefined guidelines.
* To classify images (i.e., extract the information of interest from images) according to predefined guidelines.
The junior researcher may also be asked to support other project-related tasks as needed, such as assisting with administrative work (e.g., booking travel), helping to organize events (e.g., workshops, webinars), translating documents (e.g., from Spanish to English), disseminating results, preparing code in R, or performing other small tasks required for the project. All tasks will be supervised by Dr. Melanie Revilla and possibly other team members.
Deadline to submit applications: 26/06/2025
Financing source:
The WEB DATA OPP(PREUR00120 - EC-H2020-StG-849165-WEB DATA OPP-Revilla) project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Grant agreement No. 849165
Research line of the contract: Survey Methodology
1. Some knowledge and previous experience with data collection and in particular survey data.
2. High motivation to learn and adaptability.
Specific Requirements
1. Bachelor degree (or equivalent) in any field (preference for social sciences).
2. High level of fluency in written and spoken Spanish and English.
3. Sufficient knowledge of Excel, Power Point and R.
4. Be meticulous and able to work in a quite autonomous way.
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