RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

The department of Sociology seeks to fill a position for a post-doctoral researcher in the field of social security systems and policy implementation, or in the field of socio-legal studies. The successful candidate will join the project team executing the EUR Research Excellence Initiative (REI) Program Shifting from Welfare to Social Investment States: Privatization of Work-Related Risk Control (2015-2019) awarded by the board of the Erasmus University. The project concerns a collaboration between a sociological and a legal research program. The postdoc candidate will be researching the institutional work of state and private actors (i.e. employers and employees) that is related to the shift in the allocation of responsibilities from public to private actors.