Early PostDoc in Governance of Climate Extremes and Water Conflicts in Agriculture University of Bern in Switzerland

Early PostDoc Position on the Governance of Climate Extremes at the University of Bern, affiliated with NCCR CLIM+ in Bern, Switzerland. The project sits in a new Switzerland-wide, fully interdisciplinary climate research community focused on climate extremes such as heatwaves, floods, heavy rainfalls, droughts, wildfires, and compound events. The postdoc will work closely with Prof. Karin Ingold at the Institute of Political Science and with the Uni Bern Management Center of NCCR CLIM+. Researc...

PhD position at the University of Zurich within the MINARET Doctoral Network: A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Cultures , with a regional focus on Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. The position is based at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), University of Zurich, and is part of a European doctoral network funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions under Horizon Europe. The DC7 project examines how religious, customary, and...

Wageningen University & Research is advertising a Postdoc in Governance and Sustainability Transitions in Farming Systems at the Animal Production Systems group . The project focuses on the governance of transitions toward more sustainable and regenerative farming systems, with particular attention to livestock farming systems , public-private governance , certification schemes, private standards, policy incentives, sustainability indicators, and the perceptions of those affected by sustainabili...

University of Amsterdam (UvA) is offering two PhD positions in the project “Why Are the Super-Rich So Tax-Averse?” within the Department of Political Science and the AISSR PhD programme in the Netherlands. The project examines why super-rich individuals avoid and evade personal taxation, with two possible research directions: (1) legal tax avoidance through relocation and the political/media discourses around tax flight, and (2) tax evasion through tax havens using the Offshore Leaks Database. T...

PhD position at the Institute of Law and Economics (ILE-HSG), University of St. Gallen, in AI governance and regulatory foresight . The project examines national AI regulatory portfolios, instrument mixes, predictability of regulatory environments, and early warnings of policy misfit. The doctoral researcher will help develop an openly available dataset, codebook, and an LLM-assisted methodology for analysing EU and national regulation. The position is embedded in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Acti...