The School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, in collaboration with the Jean Golding Institute for Data and AI, is seeking to appoint a Senior Research Associate to join the European Research Council-funded project Political Parties in Africa and Democracy (PPADEM). This international collaboration examines the role political parties play in democratic progress and decline across Africa through one of the largest empirical studies of political parties ever undertaken. The successful candidate will join a collaborative team of political scientists and data scientists, contributing to innovative interdisciplinary research at the intersection of computational methods and political analysis.

You will play a leading role in building and maintaining large-scale data infrastructure to support the project’s research objectives. This will include designing automated pipelines to collect, c...