Description
We seek a postdoctoral scholar for a full-time, 3-year position working on a UKRI funded project (originally awarded as the ERC Consolidator Grant project SEXRATIO). This project seeks to understand variation in natural sex ratios at birth and their implications for measuring missing women and gender discrimination more broadly. The post holder will report directly to Dr. Joshua Wilde, and will form an integral part of the SEXRATIO project team consisting of another Postdoctoral/Senior Researcher and a network of collaborators across multiple institutions. The role will offer the opportunity to focus on research at the intersection of both social and biological determinants of fertility behavior, with a heavy emphasis on maternal and reproductive health. Particular importance will be placed on the link between maternal stress and sex-biased conception and fetal loss.
This position is based within the Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science, otherwise known as the Demographic Science Unit (DSU) within the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford. The DSU is an interdisciplinary research centre aiming to disrupt and realign how we measure and model populations, but infusing new types of data, methods and unconventional approaches to tackle the most challenging demographic problems of our time.
Requirements
To be considered you will hold or be close to completion of a PhD/DPhil in Demography, Sociology, Economics, Statistics, Public/Population Health, Geography, Global Affairs, or a related field, possess sufficient specialist knowledge in the discipline to work within established research programmes, experience writing computer code in Stata and/or R for data analysis and visualisation and have excellent communication skills.
The closing date for applications is noon on 25 April 2024.
Application URL:
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