Are you an enthusiastic researcher and inspiring teacher with expertise in interdisciplinary research on issues of migrant inclusion, social inequalities and governance of migration-related diversity in relation to digitalisation? Then you have a part to play as an assistant professor in our university-wide RUNOMI network that strives for academic excellence and societal impact.
This position contributes to the RUONOMI research agenda aimed at unravelling migrant poverty mechanisms and contributing to evidence-based policy interventions to alleviate poverty. Combining relevant disciplinary approaches from economics, behavioural science and geography, you will study how poverty affects the psychological functioning as well as decision-making of poor migrants and how targeted policies (e.g. in the domains of employment or housing) may help reduce poverty. With a better understanding of the psychological impact of poverty, policies may be structured to account for the behavioural tendencies induced by poverty in ways that encourage better decision-making among the poor. Relevant lines of research may focus on, for example, cash transfers policies to poor migrants, targeted youth poverty reduction programmes, housing policies fostering residential social mixing, or urban cultural policies geared towards inducing behavioural change in low SES urban neighbourhoods. Also, by means of field experiments, the role of digitalisation will be explored in this context to see for instance if online neighbourhood platforms affect social mixing, which may benefit migrant inclusion at the local level as well as reduction of xenophobic attitudes. More in general, the influence of digitalisation on poverty dynamics will be studied, for instance by exploring how digital technologies may, on the one hand, reduce poverty through technological empowerment of the poor, while, on the other hand, it may reinforce poverty through social isolation of disadvantaged members of society trapped in digital information and socialisation bubbles.
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Application deadline: 10 November 2024