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Welcome to our comprehensive list of current job openings in the field of social science. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting your career journey, our curated collection of social science job listings is designed to help you explore a wide range of exciting opportunities.

208 Social science jobs available to apply

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5 (5-year) PhD positions in the department Law, Society & Crime

IntroductionDriven by its ambition to expand its position as a leading research institute in Europe, Erasmus School of Law is recruiting PhD researchers (5-years), with 20% teaching tasks. Job descrip...

Listed: May 25, 2023
Deadline: Jun 21, 2023
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PhD position Exploring the carrying capacity of low-trophic aquaculture in the North sea

May 2, 2023Location- WageningenEnd date- Mon 12 June 2023Respond- Click here to respondYour jobAre you a theoretical ecologist, environmental engineer or applied mathematician with a strong interest i...

Listed: May 24, 2023
Deadline: Jun 12, 2023
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PhD Position in Nineteenth-Century War-as-Entertainment Culture (1.0 FTE)

HOURS PER WEEK: 38 to 40FACULTY: Faculty of HumanitiesDEPARTMENT: departement Media- en CultuurwetenschappenAPPLICATION DEADLINE: 12 June 2023Job descriptionWe are offering a fully-funded PhD position...

Listed: May 24, 2023
Deadline: Jun 12, 2023
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PhD position on the cultural and intersectional history of the Dutch gay and lesbian left of the 1970s and 1980s (1.0 FTE)

HOURS PER WEEK: 38 to 40FACULTY: Faculty of HumanitiesDEPARTMENT: departement Media- en CultuurwetenschappenAPPLICATION DEADLINE: 12 June 2023Job descriptionA growing body of scholarship in Queer Stud...

Listed: May 24, 2023
Deadline: Jun 12, 2023
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Junior Researcher on Climate Impacts of International Biomass Supply Chains (0.9 FTE)

HOURS PER WEEK: 32 to 36FACULTY: Faculty of GeosciencesDEPARTMENT: GEO / Dept SDAPPLICATION DEADLINE: 12 June 2023Job descriptionThe Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development external link is of...

Listed: May 24, 2023
Deadline: Jun 12, 2023
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four-year PhD position on technologies for AI in Education (1.0 FTE)

HOURS PER WEEK: 38 to 40FACULTY: Faculty of ScienceDEPARTMENT: Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Software Technology for Learning and TeachingAPPLICATION DEADLINE: 12 June 2023Job desc...

Listed: May 24, 2023
Deadline: Jun 12, 2023
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Postdoc Youth Empowerment | Strategic theme Dynamics of Youth (0.8 FTE)

HOURS PER WEEK: 30 to 32FACULTY: Faculty of Social and Behavioural SciencesDEPARTMENT: OT Individual DevelopmentAPPLICATION DEADLINE: 12 June 2023Job descriptionUtrecht University’s Strategic Theme Dy...

Listed: May 24, 2023
Deadline: Jun 12, 2023
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Job opening: PhD candidate: Human Resource Studies (21585)

Requisition ID 21585 - Posted 05/11/2023 - Job openings for academic staff - Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral SciencesDepartment: Human Resource StudiesLocation: Tilburg Full-time equivalent: 1...

Listed: May 24, 2023
Deadline: Jun 12, 2023
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PhD Position in Formal Methods and Machine Learning

Challenge: Reliability of systems controlled by neural networks. Change: Synergy between formal methods and machine learning. Impact: Novel formal methods for guaranteeing properties of neural-network...

Listed: May 24, 2023
Deadline: Jun 11, 2023
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5 (5-year) PhD positions in the department Law & Markets

IntroductionDriven by its ambition to expand its position as a leading research institute in Europe, Erasmus School of Law is recruiting PhD researchers (5-years), with 20% teaching tasks. Job descrip...

Listed: May 24, 2023
Deadline: Jun 21, 2023
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Social science is an academic and professional field that studies human behavior and relationships in societies, cultures, groups, workplaces, or organizations.

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World University Rankings for Social Science Subject

THE 2023 Social Sciences

Below are the top 10 World University Rankings 2023 by Subject Social Sciences published by Times Higher Education

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  2. Stanford University
  3. University of Oxford
  4. Harvard University
  5. University of California, Berkeley
  6. Princeton University
  7. University of Cambridge
  8. London School of Economics and Political Science
  9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  10. Yale University

QS 2022 Social Sciences & Management

Below are the top 10 QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022: Social Sciences & Management

  1. Harvard University
  2. University of Oxford
  3. London School of Economics and Political Science
  4. University of Cambridge
  5. Stanford University
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  7. National University of Singapore
  8. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
  9. Yale University
  10. Bocconi University

U.S. News 2022 Social Sciences and Public Health

Below are the top 10 Best Global Universities for Social Sciences and Public Health 2022 published by U.S. News.

  1. Harvard University
  2. University of Oxford
  3. Johns Hopkins University
  4. University College London
  5. Stanford University
  6. University of Michigan
  7. University of Washington Seattle
  8. Columbia University
  9. University of Toronto
  10. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine