Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Business Power, Self-Regulation and Public Opinion at Departments of Sociology and Political Science, University of Copenhagen

The Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) at the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for a fixed-term postdoctoral researcher position (2 years) starting on 1 October 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter.

This position is part of the BIZPOWER (Business Power in the Politics of Wage Inequality and Climate Change) project, which investigates how businesses use self-regulation (S-R) to influence public opinion and preempt statutory regulation. The postdoctoral researcher will primarily contribute to Work Package 1 (WP1), which focuses on survey experiments measuring the impact of S-R on public support for wage and climate policies.

The project is led by Associate Professor Christian Lyhne Ibsen and is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The research team consists of another postdoctoral researcher who will conduct comparative case studies of Germany and Denmark (WP2-3) and the

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