Offre d'emploi : SNSF Doctoral Researcher in Political Sociology -- Université de Lausanne, Lausanne. UNIL, institution de recherche de renom, recherche un doctorant.
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Contribuer aux activités de est a la recherche de et à l'analyse des données visuelles. •
Participer aux conférences et publier des résultats de recherche.
COMPETENCES
Méthodes de recherche qualitative et ethnographie requises. •
COMPETENCES
en analyse visuelle et architecture judiciaire appréciées. Introduction
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Presentation
As part of the research project “SPECTRE – Spatialized Ethnography of Crowds Through Reconstructed Ecologies”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, Division I), the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Lausanne invites applications for the following position:
SNSF Doctoral Researcher in Political Sociology
The successful candidate will contribute to the project “SPECTRE – Spatialized Ethnography of Crowds Through Reconstructed Ecologies” and will complete a doctoral dissertation within this framework. They will work under the supervision of Professor Olivier Fillieule (University of Lausanne – SSP) and in collaboration with Sélim Smaoui (University of Lausanne – SSP), Senior Researcher on the project. The doctoral thesis is expected to be conducted as a joint supervision with a specialist in forensic architecture and/or visual analysis. Below is a summary of the project:
This project aims to establish the protesting crowd as an object of knowledge in its own right within the social and political sciences. It posits, on the one hand, that crowds constitute a
sui generis
social space, generating their own constraints, behavioural norms and affects, and are not merely an aggregate of individuals. These dynamics express situated forms of political participation, through which ways of being together and self-organising emerge to challenge or contest the political order. On the other hand, it posits that the social morphology of a crowd is equally produced by power relations; crowds constitute spaces of political participation that are continuously regulated by mechanisms seeking to control their visibility, frame their forms and define their legitimacy. Crowds are thus both producers of their own logics of participation and simultaneously shaped by these mechanisms. As such, they appear as a key analytical lens on the situated relations between the governing and the governed. Approaching crowds as an analytical lens for studying power relations requires a method capable of making visible both the specific dynamics they generate and the mechanisms that frame them. This is why the project advocates a multi-level approach attentive to situated interactions (micro), collective assemblages (meso) and institutional frameworks (macro). To implement this approach, it will develop the Spectre-Tool, a visualisation device designed for ethnography. Inspired by visual methods developed in forensic architecture, the Spectre-Tool will adapt spatial visualisation techniques to the production of ethnographic evidence. It will exploit the abundance of contemporary images (citizen videos, drone footage, surveillance cameras and media) in order to reconstruct the multi-scalar dynamics of crowds, including situated interactions, spatial configurations and institutional mechanisms as they unfold in context. Based on a series of case studies, the project aims to analyse the governance of crowds in situ. More broadly, it seeks to go beyond the current state of the art by integrating fragmented approaches into a cumulative theoretical framework, while developing a transferable methodological instrument for visual ethnography. It will make a double contribution: producing original empirical data for the analysis of the governance of crowds, and equipping the social sciences with a tool that is both shareable and adaptable to other research contexts. Job information
Salary scale
Your responsibilities
In this position, you will:
For 80% of the workload :
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), including contributing to the formulation of technical requests and overseeing the production and processing of visual reconstructions;
Provide teaching support in political sociology (facilitating and supervising seminars, assisting with lectures, invigilation, oral examinations, and marking examinations, etc. For 20% of the workload:
Terms of reference
Your
QUALIFICATIONS
We are seeking to recruit a candidate with the following profile in order to complement the research team:
QUALIFICATIONS
). Advanced training in this area, or training enabling the rapid acquisition of the relevant skills, will be given priority consideration by the selection committee. The candidate is expected to demonstrate:
WE OFFER
a nice working place in a multicultural, diverse and dynamic academic environment. Opportunities for professional training, a lot of activities and other benefits to discover. ch/work
Contact for further information
Professor Olivier Fillieule,
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Researcher Sélim Smaoui
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Your application
Application deadline:
May 30, 2026
Applicants are requested to submit the following documents:
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