Research Fellow in Religion and Extractive Industry Struggles (Brazil) University of Warwick in United Kingdom

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...

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 Zurich within the MINARET Doctoral Network: A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Cultures , with a regional focus on Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. The position is based at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), University of Zurich, and is part of a European doctoral network funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions under Horizon Europe. The DC7 project examines how religious, customary, and...

Funded PhD opportunity in Geography at Texas A&M University focused on environmental justice , environmental change , community resilience , and the social impacts of environmental crises and degradation. The project is part of a $4.7M foundation-funded initiative supporting a center of excellence for humanities-based and community-engaged research on environmental change and Latinx communities. The doctoral researcher will contribute to grant activities while developing an original dissertation...

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...