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Postdoc in Public Administration; AI & Citizen Engagement - DTU Management

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Posted 14 Sept 2026 DTU CareersTemporaryProfessionalEnglish
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The postdoc will study whether AI-based perspectival models can support citizen engagement and democratic decision-making on sustainability transitions. The role includes qualitative fieldwork, organizational ethnography, and collaboration with municipal partners.

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If you would like to contribute to knowledge creation at the intersection of public administration, democratic governance, and artificial intelligence, this position offers a unique opportunity. Public administrations are increasingly adopting digital technologies and artificial intelligence to understand citizens, design policy interventions, and address complex societal challenges.

This position offers a unique opportunity to investigate and controbute to this development through the research project STÅSTEDER.

Funded by the VELUX foundations initiative for democratic sustainability and conducted in collaboration with Aarhus municipality, STÅSTEDER explores whether large language models can be used to represent citizen perpectives and how they can potentially complement established approaches to citizen engagement in sustainability transitions.

In collaboration with project partners, the candidate will contribute to the development and empirical evaluation of perspectival models designed to represent different cultural standpoints in public debates concerning sustainability transitions. Through organizational ethnography and qualitative fiel1 …

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