Job Opportunities

Empowering Malawian Women Farmers through Precision Agriculture and Market E-Linkages EMPOWER-ME is an interdisciplinary research project supported by the Research Ireland and Irish Aid SFI Future Innovator Prize: 24 FIP SDG 13388. The project tackles gender disparities in agricultural productivity by designing and piloting gender-responsive, site-specific digital agricultural technologies DATs tailored for smallholder women farmers in Malawi. Through a mixed-methods research design-combining household surveys, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and on-farm agronomic trials-the project aims to deliver scalable solutions that enhance women's access to agronomic advice, soil testing, and market linkages. EMPOWER-ME is jointly led by University College Dublin UCD, the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture IITA-Malawi, and NASFAM, Malawi's largest farmer organisation, with support from other strategic partners in Ireland and Malawi. 
 
Postdoctoral Researcher 2017 Level I - 7097 - €45,847 - €52,339 per annum
Appointment on the above range will be dependent upon qualifications and experience. 
 
Postdoctoral Researcher 2017 Level II - 7098 Fixed Salary: €53,770 per annum 
 
Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 06th June 2025 

For further information on the application process and to read the full Job Descriptions, please (opens in a new window)click here

_{The PD1 position is intended for early stage researchers, either just after completion of a PhD or for someone entering a new area for the first time. If you have already completed your PD1 stage in UCD or will soon complete a PD1, or you are an external applicant whose total Postdoctoral experience, inclusive of the duration of the advertised post, would exceed 4 years, you should not apply and should refer to PD2 posts instead. 
 
The PD2 post is intended for researchers that have completed PD1. As with the PD1, if you have already completed your PD2 stage in UCD or will soon complete a PD2, or your total Postdoctoral experience, inclusive of the duration of the advertised post, would exceed 6 years, you should not apply and should refer to Research Fellow posts instead.}

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2) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Level 1
Research Project: Moral Agency in Election Campaigns 

Applications are invited for a temporary post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 within UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

The ELECT project aims to understand the normative attitudes of key actors in the electoral process and the values that play a role in their decision-making processes, how those attitudes and values are shaped by different institutional and regulatory contexts, and the consequences of this for democratic norms and political trust. To this end, four agents in the electoral context are studied in four countries: candidates, campaign professionals, journalists and citizens in Germany, Italy, the UK and the USA. Surveys, interviews and focus groups are central to the data collection.
 
The postdoctoral researcher will join the project team in its third year, after most of the empirical data has been collected. Their central role will be to help analyse the qualitative data from the perspective of key themes in moral and political philosophy or other relevant normative lenses, identify normative issues that arise and prescribe normative solutions that are responsive to how the electoral actors experience their moral agency. The researcher will also be involved in the design and delivery of other data yet to be collected, such as citizen focus groups, as well as the analysis of this data.
 
Application materials: 
- Cover letter (max 2 pages), Including Writing sample (publication or work in progress, max 12,000 words) 
- CV (max 2 pages)
 
Fixed Salary: €45,847 Per Annum
 
Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on the 9th of June 2025.

For further information on the application process and to read the full Job Descriptions, please (opens in a new window)click here