Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Business Power, Wage Inequality, and Climate Change Regulation, Department of Sociology/Political Science, University of Copenhagen

The Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, invites applications for a fixed-term postdoctoral researcher position (2 years) starting 1 October 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter.

This position is part of the BIZPOWER (Business Power in the Politics of Wage Inequality and Climate Change) project, which investigates how businesses use self-regulation (S-R) to influence public policy and preempt statutory regulation. The postdoctoral researcher will primarily contribute to Work Package 2 (WP2) and Work Package 3 (WP3), which focus on comparative case studies of how businesses engage in regulatory strategies in Denmark and Germany. The postdoctoral research will focus mainly on Germany.

The project is led by Associate Professor Christian Lyhne Ibsen (PI) and is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The research team consists of another postdoctoral researcher who will conduct survey ex...