TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research at The Department of Economics and Business Economics offers several short-term and longer-term positions as student programmers for students who want to engage in an academic environment and support researchers at the department with data work. An important part of your tasks will be empirical analyses, and during the employment, you will obtain access to the Danish register data. The positions are relevant for students with few years of enrollment as well as students who are about to start working on their master’s dissertations.

TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research do research in the following research areas: family interventions (with emphasis on improving school readiness and educational achievement of children of immigrants), teacher-child interactions (e.g. teacher-student matching, teacher working conditions, importance of teachers for student learning), development of math skills (e.g. impact of teacher gender on math skills or studies of gender gap in math skills across the distribution), politico-economic governance of the early childhood educational system (e.g. effects of the child-staff ratio or skilled teachers on child skills), and the general effect of educational interventions (e.g. comparison of effect sizes across age, time and type of intervention).

Who can apply?

Students with

• Flair for data work (experience with SAS, Stata, Python or R constitute an advantage)
• Excellent academic qualifications (as documented by the grade transcript)
• Experience from study programs within economics, math-econ, public policy, political science or similar

Your application (in Danish or English) should include: your motivation for applying to TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research, a confirmation of enrolment (including grade transcript) and a CV.

Additional information about the positions

Applications must be submitted online and received by 25 November 2025.
Start-up is 1 January 2026 or as soon as possible by agreement.

Place of work and area of employment

The place of work is Universitetsbyen 51, 8000 Aarhus C, and the area of employment is Aarhus University with related departments.

Requirements and terms

You are employed as student programmer with salary and other terms of employment in accordance with the organizational agreement between the Ministry of Finance and PROSA / Stat. The position is expected to include 2-14 working hours per week, and workloads may vary in periods. Employment is a fixed-term appointment, but there is an option of a short-term appointment (one semester) or a longer-term appointment (several years).

Working hours and term of appointment to be agreed with the employed candidates.

Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.

The application must be submitted via Aarhus University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aarhus University's website.

If you are interested in hearing more about the position, you are welcome to contact Malte Kloster Pihl at malte@econ.au.dk

If you need assistance uploading your application or have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact office trainee Femke Wiltink at fw@au.dk

Krav og vilkår

Løn- og ansættelsesvilkår i henhold til overenskomst mellem Finansministeriet og den relevante organisation.

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Ansøgning sendes via Aarhus Universitets rekrutteringssystem, som kan tilgås under stillingsopslaget på Aarhus Universitets hjemmeside.

Om Aarhus Universitet

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