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The Eui Has An Open Vacancy For A
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Toscana, Firenze

The EUI has an open vacancy for a

**Research Fellow in the

**Department of Political and Social Sciences

**Florence, 05 September 2024

**Reference**:V/RF/SPS/8/2024

**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 Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) is one of Europe's leading centres for research on

comparative politics, political behaviour and political sociology, the sociology of inequality, analytic sociology,

and international relations and security and is European and international in character.

**Employment details

**Contract type **Full-time (30/30, 40 hours/week).

A part-time employment at 80% (24/30=32

hours/week) can also be agreed with the Project Director.

**Length of contract **24 months (in case of full-time employment) or up to 30 months (in case of part

- time employment at 80%)

Start date **1 December 2024 **(negotiable)

Academic contracts at the EUI 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 3750 Euro,

plus allowances if applicable (for a full-time employment).

More information about conditions of employment is available here.

**Place of work **To be agreed with Project Director (salary simulation based on place of work

Florence, Italy)

**About the project

**Project Director **Prof. Valentina Di Stasio

**Project details **For an ERC-funded project ('TARGETS'), we conduct research on ethnic

discrimination in the labour market.

Combining insights from sociology, sociolegal

and organizational studies, social and organizational psychology, we study how

workplace discrimination is established in the courts and by equality bodies.

Although victims of discrimination can seek redress through the legal system, very

few turn to legal authorities.

Barriers to legal rights mobilization are both structural

(e. g. , the cost of litigation, limited legal consciousness, the complexity of the

litigation process) and psychological (e. g.

fear of retaliation or the social cost of

being seen as troublemakers).

Moreover, research has shown that organizational

policies and structures - such as diversity management, formalized personnel

practices or internal grievance procedures - may paradoxically weaken the

credibility of discrimination claims.

The postdoc will conduct expert interviews to

probe whether organizational structures and policies are taken into account in

discrimination cases.

The qualitative analysis will be supplemented with a detailed

coding of discrimination jurisprudence.

We will code the structures and policies of

the organizations, and trace how employers' compliance with non-discrimination

law is established in litigation (preferably, the research will focus on the Dutch

to apply).

**Job** **description** The research fellow will carry out research work in an independent manner and

collaborate on the research work of the project.

The research assistant will provide

research assistance to the Project Director(s).

Main tasks include:

- Conducting expert interviews;

- Analyzing relevant legal frameworks and case studies;

- Coding decisions on relevant discrimination cases;

- Analyzing data and disseminating results at conferences and impact

events with stakeholders;

- Writing peer-reviewed scientific articles;

- Assisting the Project Director with project management tasks including

attending project meetings;

- Taking part in activities (such as attending seminars) of the Comparative

Life Course and Inequality Centre CLIC, at the EUI.

**Qualifications and experience

**Qualifications and Essential**:

**Experience

- PhD in Sociology, Law or a related discipline, with a profile in socio-legal

studies and/or legal sociology and demonstrated expertise relevant to the

current project (PhD students about to defend their thesis are eligible

conditional on the successful thesis defence by the contract start date);

- Demonstrated experience with socio-legal research methods and empirical

research.

**Desirable**:

- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with qualitative and

quantitative research;

- Proven knowledge of the equality and non-discrimination legislative

frameworks of specific countries (knowledge of the Dutch context is an

asset).

**Languages **Excellent knowledge of English, both spoken and written (CEFR level: C1 or

above).

Knowledge of other languages (especially Dutch) constitutes an

advantage.

**How to ap