PhD Position in Groundwater Care, Political Ecology, and Agrarian Change University of Amsterdam in Netherlands

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...

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 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 opportunity in Political Ecology and Commons at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus , with supervision by Lavanya Suresh (Associate Professor). The project is open to candidates interested in Political Ecology , Commons , and related questions in water governance , forest governance , and broader environmental governance . The post emphasizes that strong proposals on adjacent themes are also welcome, as long as they are conceptually grounded and methodologically clear. This is a funded PhD positio...

Leiden University is recruiting a PhD candidate for the research project Entangled with Seaweed , focused on ethnographic research into the politics of valuing seaweed and the impacts of blue economy strategies in Scotland . The project sits in the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University and is part of a broader collaboration with the University of Edinburgh , the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) , and Stellenbosch University . The research...