Research Assistant in Deep Geothermal Energy, Participation and Energy Transition Research Ruhr University Bochum in Germany

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...

Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning is recruiting a PhD student for a fully funded graduate research assistantship on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-funded project Shadow Grids: Gas, fuel deliveries, and backup generation in an electrifying US . The project examines how natural gas, deliverable fuel, and backup generator networks persist and expand alongside efforts to decarbonize US homes. The student will conduct field-based research in Arizona and pol...

The IRI THESys Graduate Programme at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin invites doctoral applicants to join a structured research environment focused on the transformations of human-environment systems. The programme is based in Berlin and is developed in cooperation with leading research partners including the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, the...

The University of Lapland’s Faculty of Law is recruiting one funded PhD Junior Researcher for the Arctic Transitions (AT) project, “Arctic Transitions, Energy and Climate Governance Horizons in the Far North.” The full-time position is based in Rovaniemi, Finland, with remote working possible within Finland. The project investigates how climate change and demand for rare and valuable earth materials are reshaping extraction activities, infrastructures, security configurations, governance arrange...