PhD Candidate in Entangled with Seaweed: Ethnographic Research on Blue Economy and Coastal Communities in Scotland Leiden University in Netherlands

Leiden University is recruiting a PhD candidate for the research project Entangled with Seaweed , focusing on the economization of seaweed and blue economy strategies in South Africa. The project examines how seaweed-related development affects coastal communities, especially in contexts shaped by colonial and apartheid legacies and unequal access to coastal areas. The PhD researcher will be based at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behaviou...

PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, within the GID group and the broader Aquiverse project on groundwater care and governance. This project sits at the intersection of political ecology , development studies , environmental humanities , anthropology , geography , and earth science . It examines how irrigators and communities in Peru care for, protect, rejuvenate, and recharge groundwater, and how these practices relate to agrarian cha...

PhD position at the University of Amsterdam on Groundwater Care and the Politics of Transformation , focused on India and grounded in political ecology , development studies , environmental humanities , human geography , anthropology , and hydrogeology . The project examines how individuals and communities in India care for, protect, rejuvenate, and recharge the groundwater they rely on for irrigating crops. It is part of the ERC Advanced Grant project Aquiverse , which studies groundwater care ...

PhD position at the University of Amsterdam in the CERRADO Project (Conservation and Ecological Restoration for Resilient Agriculture and Development Outcomes), focused on environmental justice , agrarian justice , and sociobioeconomies in Brazil’s Cerrado , especially the MATOPIBA region. The project examines how agricultural development and biodiversity conservation can be better balanced amid agribusiness expansion, deforestation, land conflicts, and climate change. The PhD research will cont...

PhD Vacancy: Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Augmented Organisations at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) , Netherlands. This doctoral project is part of EMANAIRE (Empowering Human Agency in AI-Augmented Futures of Work), a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network . The research focuses on how generative AI is changing learning, expertise, responsibility, and relationships at work, especially in everyday organisational life. The position is based at Vrije Universiteit Ams...