Student Assistant Position in ERC Project on Social Media, AI and Politics

Student Assistant Position Open / ERC Project on Social Media, AI and Politics

We are pleased to invite expressions of interest for a student assistant position in the European Research Council funded project on social media, AI and politics, with a particular focus on extreme speech and small social media platforms.

Responsibilities include annotating content, doing interviews, transcribing interviews, and translations from German into English. Hands-on training can be offered in the initial days for data annotation. Experience with automated data gathering and data visualization is highly desired, but it is not a requirement to apply. Candidates will also support project management and other emerging needs.

An initial 6-month contract can go up to one year and more.

Send a one-page motivation letter and your CV by 15 May 2026 to sahana.udupa@lmu.de

Join an exciting international team of researchers across Germany, Kenya, India and the UK, and a wider global network of collaborators!

See more about the project here: https://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/2023-erc-consolidator-udupa/index.html