Sigrid Weber

🚨Jobs!🚨

3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!

Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

New meta-analysis by @swebera.bsky.social, Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt & Haoyu Zhai on attitudes toward migrants and displaced persons (based on 118 survey experiments with ~423k respondents). Saw the pre-print a while ago – great to see it in print 🔓

Really excited to share my new article published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!

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📣 Final Call for visiting fellowships for postdocs at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social! Great opportunity to spend 2-4 weeks in a fantastic academic environment! See 👇 for details!

We summarize the core drivers of attitudes towards migrants from the literature, we show differences in how forced vs economic migrants are perceived, and compare how respondents in developing and developed countries perceive migrants.

BJPolS abstract of a scientific study related to social science research on migration, cultural bias, and economic impacts from the 2010s, using survey data from 428,881 respondents globally. The text elaborates on the findings and mentions the influence of migrants on professional education, cultural concerns, and public perception.

NEW -

A Meta-Analysis of Attitudes Towards Migrants and Displaced Persons - https://cup.org/3K67rG6

- @swebera.bsky.social, Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt & Haoyu Zhai

#OpenAccess

Every year, there are more and more survey-experimental studies on attitudes towards migrants. We hope this article provides a robust summary of where we are and what is yet to explore!

Very happy that my meta-analysis with Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt and Haoyu Zhai has been published @bjpols.bsky.social ! We re-analyze *118* survey experimental studies on attitudes towards migrants in 53 countries. Huge thanks to all authors for sharing data files. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Every summer, parades in Northern Ireland bring tension. In our new study, we combine data on 55,000+ parades, surveys, & fieldwork to show how “contentious rituals” affect intergroup relations. All thanks to my amazing co-authors: Kit Rickard, Giovanni Hollenweger & @kristinmbakke.bsky.social

One week left to apply for the three tenure track positions at IE University (details below).

Come join a great department in a great city.

Deadline October 6th!

This is my first week at IE University as assistant professor but I can already tell you that @iepolisci.bsky.social provides a very warm welcome! We're hiring in 3 lines (in CP, IR/Security Studies, and IPE). Come join us in Madrid!

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨

We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.

We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

We are super excited that Catherine de Vries will join IE University as Full Professor of Political Science, Chair of our Department, and Vice Dean at IE's SPEGA in January.

We look forward to having her as a colleague and leader in our growing department!

www.catherinedevries.eu

Excited to begin a new chapter as Assistant Professor at IE University! Grateful to have found such a vibrant department - and an equally vibrant city. Let me know when you are in Madrid.

Apply to EuroWEPS 12/13! We're organizing the next EuroWEPS workshops at Bocconi (Nov 14) and EUI (Dec 15) to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 30

Vacancy — Postdoctoral Position with the Conflict & Society Team Are you a recent social sciences PhD who has conducted cutting-edge research on forced displacement and migration? Do you have experience conducting mixed-methods research? The “Conflict & Society” Re...

📣 excited to announce a 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @stephrschwartz.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Werken bij de UvA Werken bij de UvA betekent een creatieve, internationale omgeving met uitstekende arbeidsvoorwaarden, ruimte voor ontwikkeling en een goede werk-privébalans

GRIID is hiring! 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social
on government responses to displacement project w/ me,
@abbeyst.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl

I was just informed that our RCT in Bangladesh has been terminated mid-way. The project we were evaluating was helping to build resilience by forming farmer groups in 225 villages and transferring critical knowledge on smart agriculture practices in areas highly affected by climate change.

Wir haben gestern lange darüber gesprochen was wir tun würden wenn Autoritäre und Faschisten die Macht übernehmen. Behält man Stellen in Bürokratie und Wissenschaft, wandert man aus, wie würde man Widerstand organisieren? Als Deutscher kennt man diese Fragen. Man hat sie häufig rückblickend ... 1/

Professor Claire Adida named Faculty Co-Director of IPL at Stanford - Immigration Policy Lab Professor Claire Adida, a long-time faculty affiliate of IPL, will join the IPL team as a faculty co-director beginning in July.

We are thrilled to announce that @claireadida.bsky.social has been named an IPL Faculty Co-Director and will be joining the @stanforduniversity.bsky.social community in July following her appointment as an FSI Senior Fellow. Please join us in welcoming Claire!

immigrationlab.org/2025/02/12/p...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German CDU, just claimed in parliament that gang rapes are committed on a daily basis by asylum seekers in Germany. It is pure far right propaganda. The mainstreaming of the far right is happening on steroids in Germany right now.

Up next for #TBT, Alex Hartman w/ Ben S. Morse & @swebera.bsky.social discuss how experiences of violence can shape support for internally displaced people and refugees in conflict-affected areas: egap.org/resource/priority-theme-spotlight-alexandra-hartman-benjamin-s-morse-and-sigrid-weber/

CRS | Cedric Smith Prize The CRS welcomes submissions for the Cedric Smith Prize 2019 which is a peace research prize awarded for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a student

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025.

conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith...

Conflictsky

I haven't seen a starter pack with people doing research on migration related topics, so here it is!

Likely to be missing a bunch of folks. Feel free to create another list and add more scholars!

#sociology #polsky #socsky

go.bsky.app/2uhhmeA

PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change

The call for the Conflict & Change PhD Workshop at University College London is out! PhD students working on IR, conflict, contentious politics, apply by 8 December! It is a really nice crowd. Workshop is on 24-25 February, 2025. www.conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...

Polisky

PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change

The call for abstracts for the 6th Conflict & Change PhD Workshop on 11-12 March, 2024 is out! We invite early career researchers working on IR, conflict, contentious politics to apply by 8 December. We look forward to welcoming you to UCL in London! 🙂
conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...

Social scientist colleagues - more invite code donations welcome! Please send in text format via email or by DM at @brendannyhan at the old place. I've redistributed ~150+ thanks to many generous donations but I'm currently down to 4 codes.

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I've started a list of PoliSky Sub-feeds. If you know of one (or started one) that should be added, please re-skeet the feed announcement and @profruback.bsky.social when you do. I'll add it ASAP.

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