Doctoral Researcher in Global Development Studies University of Helsinki in Finland

The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher in Global Development Studies for a fixed-term appointment of at least three years, starting on 1 March 2027 (or as agreed). The project is Forests At Tipping points in the Era of Post-truth and Polycrisis: Insights from Brazil and Finland (FATE) , funded by the Research Council of Finland (2024–2030). The project examines deforestation and clearcutting in Brazil and Finland as contributors to climat...

Open call for Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow positions in the ECOIP Project at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (National Institutes for the Humanities), Kyoto, Japan. The project, Toward an Ethical Economy: Addressing the Impacts of Commodity Trade and Consumption on Indigenous Lands and Survival , examines how global commodity production, trade, and consumption affect indigenous peoples, their territories, livelihoods, rights, and lifestyles. The research combines globa...

The University of Oulu is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Social Sciences and Digital Infrastructures to join the General Education Research Unit in the Faculty of Education and Psychology. The researcher will work on the Research Council of Finland-funded DATAVOID project, “From a Void to the Cloud? Data Centres in the Afterlives of Arctic Industries.” DATAVOID investigates how data centres emerging in post-industrial northern communities interact with the physical and social...

The Doctoral Programme in Environment and Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München focuses on the intertwined relationship between ecological change and human society. The programme is built around the idea that environmental transformation and societal power structures shape one another, and it invites doctoral research that engages this complexity from multiple disciplinary angles. The programme is explicitly interdisciplinary, bringing together perspectives from Human Geography , Env...

The University of Hamburg is seeking a postdoctoral research associate to work with Prof. Dr. Eray Çaylı’s professorship in Human Geography, focused on violence and security in the Anthropocene. The position is based in the Department of Earth System Sciences within the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences. The interdisciplinary research agenda examines how climate change and environmental disasters are shaped by, and produce, racialized, classed and gendered inequalities. Co...