PhD Research Associate in Plantationocene, Palm Oil Labour and Environmental Political Ecology University of Bonn in Germany

The Center for Engineering Smarter Product-Service Systems (ZESS), through its Participation and Transformation Research Group, is recruiting a part-time research assistant for the ZuDe project, “Future Dialogue Energy: Deep Geothermal Energy as an Impetus in Structural Change.” The project examines how deep geothermal energy may contribute to transformation in the Rhenish mining region. The research group studies societal transformation in the energy transition, with particular attention to cit...

The PhD programme in Geography at the University of Göttingen is built around the research focus “Resources and Sustainability” . It is centred on the interface of human-environment research and combines work in physical geography, human geography, cartography, GIS, and remote sensing. Doctoral researchers engage with topics such as process mapping and modelling, material balances involving water, air, sediment, carbon, nitrogen, and pollutants, and the reconstruction of past environmental condi...

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...

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...

Postdoctoral opportunity in Remote Sensing and Land Degradation at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) in Halle (Saale), Germany . The position is part of the TransMoP project and focuses on environmental change in Central Asia , making it a strong fit for candidates interested in environmental science , geography , earth science , and related spatial analysis of human–environment interactions. This is a 3-year postdoctoral position . The post does no...