Philadelphia Urban Research Project Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2025-2026
Philadelphia Urban Research Project Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2025-2026
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The Philadelphia Urban Research Project at the University of Pennsylvania directed by Professor Michael JonesCorrea seeks to appoint up a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for theacademic year. This opportunity is for a oneyear fulltime residential postdoctoral research fellowship with potential to renew for one year conditional on successful performance and availability of funding. The appointment will begin on July 1 2025.
Housed in the Department of Political Science the Philadelphia Urban Research Project will focus on questions around urban space and politics. The postdoctoral researcher will 1 conduct geospatial analyses of urban demographic trends land use service provision civic engagement and voting and 2 aid in the design and fielding of a new survey of residents in metropolitan Philadelphia. The postdoctoral fellow may also be asked to contribute to projects in other areas/ongoing projects on a variety of different topics related to the broad theme of urban space and politics.
Job responsibilities may include the following: Collect and clean voting and other public use data; program complex surveys in Qualtrics; prepare IRB applications; manage logistical details of field projects; prepare scripts and dofiles for statistical analysis in Stata and R; prepare visualizations of quantitative data/results; draft short reports with project results; review/comment on research and working papers; and coauthor papers and reports with the project director. The postdoctoral fellow may also be asked to assist with preparing replication files for published studies to manage with the Director a team of undergraduate and postbaccalaureate researchers and to help design/manage the projects website.
The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to work three days/week on Philadelphia Urban Research projects under the direction of Professor Michael JonesCorrea and can pursue their own research for the remainder of their work time. There is no formal teaching postdoctoral fellow will also have the opportunity to engage with research by other faculty and graduate students at Penn.
The salary for this position is commensurate with experience and complies with the University of Pennsylvanias policies on postdoctoral fellows seekcandidates who share our strong commitment to research teaching and mentoring and to a scholarly community shaped by values of inclusive excellence. The
The successful applicant will have excellent training in quantitative methods with an emphasis on one or more of the following: statistical analysis geospatial analysis and/or survey design and methods. Excellent knowledge of the statistical software Stata and R experience in programming surveys in Qualtrics and/or experience with geospatial programming with . Applicants should have outstanding organizational skills should be intellectually curious ambitious energetic and selfmotivated; they should be able to work independently but also as part of a team and be sensitive to the demands of multiple simultaneously ongoing projects; they should be able to multitask and respond to feedback quickly. Training in a social science field such as political science sociology urban planning or criminology is desirable.
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