Postdoctoral Research Associate in Violence and Security in the Anthropocene University of Hamburg in Germany

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 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 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...

The University of Bonn is recruiting a Research Associate for a PhD position in the DFG project “Working the Plantationocene. Ecological Labour Regimes of the Palm Oil Value Chain (PALMWORK)” . The 65% position is part of the Department of Southeastasia and is based at the University of Bonn. PALMWORK investigates the relationship between labour and the environment along the palm oil value chain, with particular attention to plantations, oil mills and social reproduction. The project connects la...

The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies at Freie Universität Berlin is inviting applications for a doctoral (PhD) programme . The programme is designed for applicants interested in the systematic and comparative study of texts, objects, and practices understood as Islamic, with special attention to how diversity, difference, and distinction are negotiated among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims. This is a research-focused doctoral environment with a strong interdiscipl...