Student assistant position for coding and data analysis

Official occupation: Studentermedhjælp. Employment conditions: Almindelige vilkår. Employer CVR: 31119103.

Primary career market

Public Sector, Education & Impact (occupation evidence).

About the job

Within the ERC-funded research project STANDBY, “Standing by:

• Pro-social Bystander Reactions to Online Political Research”, we are looking to hire a student assistant to help with various data analysis tasks.
• Your work will focus on carrying out data preprocessing, data wrangling, and carrying out analyses using R (and sometimes Python).

An example project you could be working with is the preparation and exploration of data coming from a field experiment we ran on Facebook, aiming at reducing online incivility and increasing counterspeech. You could be responsible for data preparation of the. json data, as well as carrying out initial exploratory analyses of Facebook comments.

We also continuously need help with conducting statistical robustness analyses and preparing supplementary materials for manuscripts. Of course, in projects where you provide substantial work, co-authorship of manuscripts is possible. The position is scheduled for one year, with possibility of extension. The average workload will be 7 hours per week but can vary depending on your and the projects’ needs.

The position starts October 1, 2026, or as soon as possible hereafter1 …