Research Associate (PostDoc) - 0.5 working time - salary grade E 13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen

The ZTG of the TU Berlin is looking for a research assistant for the project “Assessing and strengthening the impact of social innovations (SozImpact), which is an accompanying research project to the programme “Transformation Cluster Social Innovations for Sustainable Cities”. The project is funded as part of the BMBF's socio-ecological research programme. The job advertisement is subject to the authorisation of funds. This is a position with 50% of the regular working hours (an increase in the course of the project maybe possible).
The accompanying research supports the funded projects in this programme in reflecting on and documenting their effects in the form of a formative evaluation (including support for assessing achievable effects, development of a monitoring concept, see Schäfer et al. 2024).
In addition, various social innovations resulting from the alliances and their impacts are to be compared and typified. The aim is to come to comparative results on the effectiveness of different types of social innovations for sustainable urban development. Among other things, favourable and hindering framework conditions and actor constellations will be analysed.

Tasks:

• Organisation and evaluation of inter- and transdisciplinary impact workshops
• Supporting the projects in the development of monitoring concepts
• Designing, conducting and analysing interviews with researchers of the accompanied projects
• Comparing different social innovations regarding their origin and the type of change they aim for
• Analysing the effects of social innovations for transformations in urban areas
• Writing scientific publications (peer reviewed articles) and presenting results at conferences
• Creating presentations of results for research and practice partners

• Successfully completed university degree (Diplom, Master or equivalent) and PhD in a social science research field, e.g. on sustainability transformations, sustainable development in urban areas, social innovations
• Experience with the design and implementation of qualitative social research methods
• Experience with inter- and transdisciplinary research and reflecting on this type of research
• Experience with methods for inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration
• Experience with writing peer reviewed articles in English
• Very good spoken and written German and English skills

Desired:

• Experience with the accompanying evaluation of (inter- and transdisciplinary) research
• Experience in the development of monitoring concepts

Please send your application with the reference number and the usual documents only by email (single pdf file; max. 5 MB) to Prof. Dr. Dr. Martina Schäfer via schaefer@ztg.tu-berlin.de.

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To ensure equal opportunities between women and men, applications by women with the required qualifications are explicitly desired. Qualified individuals with disabilities will be favored. The TU Berlin values the diversity of its members and is committed to the goals of equal opportunities. Applications from people of all nationalities and with a migration background are very welcome.

Technische Universität Berlin - Die Präsidentin - Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft, Prof. Dr. Dr. Martina Schäfer, Sekr. KAI 3-2, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 104, 10553 Berlin