Postdoctoral Researcher and PhD Openings in Public Participation, Sustainability Governance, Democracy, Justice, and Global Comparative Research Leuphana University of Lüneburg 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 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 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...

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden invites applications for a doctoral fellowship in International Politics within the interdisciplinary guiding theme “Energy Cultures in Transition.” The Lab brings together researchers from the social sciences and humanities, artists, and STEM partners to examine how technology, science, and society shape one another. The doctoral project will investigate energy as a cultural, political, ecological, economic, and socio-technological phenomenon. Potential research dir...

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...