The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Research and Flagship Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term position of senior researcher from 01.03.2024 to 31.08.2027. Employment starts on 01.03.2024 or as agreed.
The goal of the CAUSALTIME project is to develop and apply new computational Bayesian methods for panel data causal inference especially in the context of social sciences. These methods allow us to assess the effects of interventions and learn causal mechanisms in an efficient, transparent, and interpretable way, accounting various sources of uncertainty in the modelling. The project shares research aims and works in close collaboration with the PREDLIFE project (https://sites.utu.fi/predlife/en/) and INVEST Flagship in general.
The senior researcher selected for the project can, based on their skills and interests, work either on methodological development for causal inference of longitudinal/panel data, or apply the methods developed in the project to sociological research questions. Possible application areas include, among others, assessing the impacts of family leave reforms and life course research in general. The tasks of the senior researcher may include applied research utilizing Finnish population register data, statistical and computational method development for causal inference and longitudinal models, as well as planning and writing scientific articles within a multidisciplinary research group
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