Interpersonal Conflicts and Violence, 3 Ph.D. Studentships, University of Leiden, Netherlands. Deadline: 18 July 2025
(If the topic interests you, but you already have a PHD, there is also a postdoctoral researcher position available with the same team.)
Why and how do interpersonal conflicts turn physically violent? What are the turning points towards the beginning and ending of violence in encounters between civilians and between police and civilians? If you want to work on these questions, have a master’s degree in communication science, social science, or psychology, and would like to conduct qualitative video analysis, this may be the position for you.
The main aim of this ERC TURNING VIOLENT research is to identify turning points towards one-sided violence in interpersonal conflicts. Projects will focus on conflicts between civilians or between police and civilians in Berlin, Paris, or London. The team will be using publicly available video data, complemented with video elicitation interviews. They are seeking candidates who are interested in learning or who are already experienced in video based ethnomethodological conversation analysis and multimodal analysis and who are comfortable working with qualitative research methods and video annotation tools (e.g. ELAN, NVivo, or similar).
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