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Postdoctoral Researcher about the situation of urban essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland

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22 de December de 2022

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Postdoctoral Researcher: The situation of urban essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

The research team “Spatial Development and Urban Policy – SPUR” led by Prof. Dr David Kaufmann and based at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher who examines the situation of urban essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The position is financed within the National Research Program 80 “Covid-19 in Society” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

They are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher who examines the experiences, struggles and policy demands of non-healthcare urban essential workers (such as bus drivers, day care personnel, waste collection workers, or delivery workers) during the pandemic. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been unequal depending on the resources and opportunities people have to cope with the multiple consequences of the pandemic. These inequalities have been exacerbated in cities, especially with regard to urban labour issues. While some workers could continue their work from home, others had to step out and up, becoming or being identified as what they call now ‘essential’. Intersectional burdens, expressed in the overlapping of race, class, and gender, have been reproduced throughout the pandemic, as care and maintenance work have fallen disproportionately on the shoulders of women, people of color, and migrants.

They are going to study the experiences, struggles and policy demands of non-healthcare urban essential workers with qualitative and quantitative social science methods in the five biggest Swiss cities. Furthermore, they will study how Swiss decision-makers and the wider population perceive and valuate these workers as well as policies in support of them. The main goals are to understand the effects of the pandemic on so-called essential workers, to contribute towards the creation of policy measure that allows protect vulnerable workers and to better respond to future crises.

Your profile

  • A PhD degree (or near completion) in human geography, urban sociology, public policy, planning or related social science disciplines
  • Strong interest and curiosity in labour and urban policy issues
  • Motivation to pursue an academic career
  • Good knowledge of the Swiss policy and labour market context
  • Demonstrated applications of qualitative and quantitative social science research methods on questions related to labour and urban policy issues
  • First publications or high-level papers on issues related to urban studies, urban policy, urban inequality, or urban labour issues
  • Very good active command of German, and English (oral and written) and a good passive command of French.

Organisation

ETH Zurich

Research Field

Geography » Human geography
Sociology » Other
Political sciences » Public policy

Country

Switzerland

Deadline

13th February 2023

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Euraxess

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