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2 Postdoctoral & 2 PhD positions on new ERC project IMBRACE
Applications are invited for two ERC (European Research Council) funded postdoctoral fellowships (4 and 5 years) and two 4-year doctoral fellowships, under the supervision of Dr. Panagiota Kotsila, as part of the 2 Million Euros ERC-CoG project IMBRACE: Embracing Immigrant Knowledges for Just Climate Health Adaptation.
The successful applicants will become core members of the IMBRACE team (which will include the Principal Investigator, 3 postdoctoral researchers, 2 PhD students, a Research Assistant, and a Communication Assistant), will be based at ICTA-UAB and work within the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability group (BCNUEJ). Candidates are expected to live and work in the Barcelona area.
2 Postdoctoral positions
Offer description - summary
- Two postdoctoral positions at ICTA-UAB
- 4 or 5 year contract depending on the position, with a 6 month probational period.
- Salary: 35,000 € gross annual salary, flexible work-time, 37,5h/week
- Starting date: Sept 2024 – March 2025
Requirements
Both positions require a PhD in human geography, political ecology, medical anthropology, urban studies, or related fields, with a strong background in environmental and/or health justice. Previous work with immigrants or racialized communities will be considered a plus. Expertise in systematic literature review methodology and participatory research methodologies will also be highly valued.
We seek candidates with at least 3 years after their PhD, with a track record of research publications in high quality international academic journals and press, and with a strong commitment to collaborative, supportive, inclusive and equity-based work ethics.
For both positions, excellent knowledge of English is required. Knowledge of German, French, Greek and/or Spanish or Catalan will be highly valued.
Job description
The postdoctoral researchers will participate at a senior level in the project’s conceptual and analytical development (see abstract below), co-supervise doctoral students, and contribute to coordinating the implementation of the project’s core outcomes.
Postdoctoral research will include qualitative and participatory research methods, including participatory photography (Photovoice), Body Maps, and Climate Relief Maps, and in-depth interviews, as well as qualitative systematic literature reviews, to explore how climate-related health vulnerabilities intersect with immigration in at-risk urban areas, and how embodied knowledges and situated practices of immigrants can inform adaptation to climate related risks (see project abstract below). Successful candidates will be fully supported in their fieldwork expenses, and travel to conferences and other related events.
Specifically, for position 1 (5 years), research will focus on the impacts of heatwaves/extended heat, while for position 2 (4 years) research will focus on the impacts of flooding/extreme percipitation on health and well-being. The theme of vector-borne and water-borne disease transmission will be common and transversal for both postdocs. For each position, a 3- to 6-month fieldwork will be conducted in one of the project’s case studies (Barcelona, Athens, Dublin, Berlin, Antwerp, Marseilles). Last, selected candidates will lead the development of social vulnerability indicators, and the organization of knowledge co-production and dessimination events engaging a transdisciplinary taskforce of experts.
We encourage applications from women researchers, and researchers from under-represented backgrounds.
- Deadline for applications: April 26th 2024
- Interviews: 3rd week of May 2024
- Start date: Sept 2024 – March 2025
- Salary: Approximately €35,000 per year
How to apply
Please submit your CV, transcripts from previous degrees, and a motivation letter to PI Panagiota Kotsila (panagiota.kotsila@uab.cat) by April 26th 2024, 23:59 CET. The subject of your email should be: “Application for a postdoctoral position on Urban Climate Justice”. The motivation letter should have a of maximum 1000 words.
Online interviews of shortlisted candidates will be held during the third week of May 2024.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked for two reference letters.
2 PhD positions
Offer description - summary
- Two PhD positions at ICTA-UAB
- 4-year contracts
- Salary: 20.000€ gross annual salary
- Starting date: Oct 2024
Requirements
Both PhD positions require a first-class BSc and MSc degree (by Sept 2024) are required, in the fields of Enviornmental Studies, Public Health, Political Ecology, Urban Studies, Migration Studies, or related fields, with a strong interest and background in Environmental
and Climate justice. Previous work with immigrants or otherwise racialized communities will be considered a plus. Knowledge of methods such as literature review, interviews, focus-group discussions, participatory and visual methodologies will be highly valued.
We seek outstanding candidates with a strong academic background, willingness to work in an interdisciplinary vibrant enviornment and conduct in depth research in cities in Europe, and a strong commitment to collaborative, supportive, inclusive and equity-based work ethics.
For both positions, excellent knowledge of English is required. Knowledge of German, French, Greek and/or Spanish or Catalan will be highly valued.
Job description
PhD research will include working with qualitative and participatory research methods, including participatory photography (Photovoice), Body Maps, and Climate Relief Maps, and in-depth interviews, to explore how climate-related health vulnerabilities intersect with immigration in at-risk urban areas, and how embodied knowledges and situated practices of immigrants can inform adaptation to climate related risks (see project abstract below).
Specifically, for PhD 1, research will focus on the impacts of heatwaves/extended heat, while for PhD 2 on the impacts of flooding/extreme percipitation, on health and well-being. The theme of vector-borne and water-borne disease transmission will be common and transversal for both PhDs.
For each position, a 3- to 6-month fieldwork will be conducted in two of the project’s case studies (Barcelona, Athens, Dublin, Berlin, Antwerp, Marseilles). Selected candidates will work closely and collaborate with other team members to develop social (health) vulnerability indicators, organize knowledge co-production and dessimination events, and produce audio-visual materials for dessimination of results.
Sucessful candidates will enroll to ICTA’s excellent PhD program in Environmental Science and Technology, and will be fully supported in their fieldwork expenses, and travel to conferences and other related events.
We encourage applications from women researchers, and researchers from under-represented backgrounds.
- Deadline for applications: April 26th 2024
- Interviews: 3rd week of May 2024
- Start date: Oct 2024
- Salary: Approximately €20,000 per year
How to apply
Please submit your CV, transcripts from previous degrees, and a motivation letter where you statr why you are interested and what experience you have to address the various aspects of the project, to PI Panagiota Kotsila (panagiota.kotsila@uab.cat) by April 26th 2024, 23:59 CET. The subject of your email should be: “Application for a PhD position on Urban Climate Justice”. The motivation letter should have a of maximum 1000 words.
Online interviews of shortlisted candidates will be held during the third week of May 2024. Shortlisted candidates will be asked for two reference letters.
IMBRACE Project Abstract
Climate change, human health and immigration are arguably the most prominent, enduring, and challenging issues of our times, with important implications for justice. Studies on the nexus of these issues have largely focused on climate change as posing challenges to health and thus acting as a push-factor for migration. However, our understanding of how climate is impacting the health of immigrants in places of migration destination is still poor. Further limiting our understanding of potential climate and health injustices, immigrant communities in Europe are far from homogenous, and are often racialized groups of great ethnic diversity. In IMBRACE, we will examine what shapes immigrants’ climate health vulnerability and how their situated knowledges and practices can inform both their own response capacities and urban climate adaptation more broadly, towards more effective and just approaches. We will focus on two types of climate impacts, chosen as most relevant for urban areas in Europe and with important implications for health: (a) increased and prolonged heat, and (b) intense rainfall and flooding. We will employ a pioneering feminist political ecology approach that combines participatory ethnography, critical discourse and policy analysis, and transdisciplinary knowledge production. Focusing on 6 case-study cities in Europe we will systematically explore tangible and intangible factors and structural drivers of immigrants’ climate health vulnerability, centering and engaging with immigrants as expert knowledge-holders. Mobilizing knowledge that comes with and through immigration, we will offer an intersectional justice perspective that considers class, gender, race, ethnicity, and other axes of power and oppression when designing and assessing urban climate and health adaptation policy. This novel, comparative, and in-depth study will open new paths for research at the nexus of climate, health, and immigration, leading to a shift in how we conceptualize and research climate justice.
Please also see this publication as reference:
Kotsila, Panagiota. "9. Immigrant communities in Europe as situated knowledge holders for postcolonial and feminist urban adaptation to climate health risks". Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation, edited by Marco Armiero, Salvatore Paolo Rosa and Ethemcan Turhan, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023, pp. 183-206. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554805-012
Postdoctoral positions on Post-growth
Offer description
- Two postdoctoral positions at ICTA-UAB
- 3 or 4 year contract depending on the position, with a 6 month probational period.
- Salary: 35.000€ gross annual salary
- Starting date: June-September of 2024.
Positions
We are seeking applications for outstanding postdoctoral researchers to work with us in two exciting international collaboration projects.
Position 1.
This position is with the MAPS project (Models, Assessment & Policies for Sustainability). It is a four-year position and requires knowledge of Integrated Assessment Modelling. The MAPS project focuses on broadening the range of scenarios to achieve high levels of human wellbeing while limiting climate change and protecting biodiversity. The position will be under the supervision of Dr Aljosa Slamersak, supported by Dr Jason Hickel.
Expected tasks:
- Contribute to the design of post-growth scenarios of climate mitigation and energy transition that will be submitted for inclusion in the next IPCC and IPBES assessment reports.
- Collaborate in the development of an IAM that can represent relationships between economic output, human development, energy and resource use, and environmental impacts, and which can integrate policy interventions that can deliver equitable access to essential goods and services for all.
- Contribute to the development of pathways for North-South convergence, enabling the attainment of high levels of human wellbeing for everyone within the planetary boundaries.
Position 2.
This position is with the REAL project (A Post-Growth Deal), and will collaborate with the MAPS project. It is a three-year position and requires advanced modelling skills. The REAL project explores the pathways, policies and politics that can enable a successful post-growth transition. Previous modelling experience in the field of ecological economics is desirable. Experience with stock-flow consistent models, agent-based modelling, social metabolism, or input-output models will be valued. The position will be under the supervision of Dr Jason Hickel.
Expected tasks:
- Collaborate in the design of policies for a post-growth deal (such as a job guarantee, universal public services, working-time reduction, ending unequal exchange).
- Contribute to the development of an ecological macro-economic model, with the objective of assessing the impact of post-growth policies both nationally and internationally.
- Collaborate in other modelling projects in the REAL team, including the IAM modelling of climate mitigation scenarios.
For both positions, excellent knowledge of English is required. Knowledge of Spanish or Catalan will be valued. Expertise in quantitative research methods and programming is required.
Both positions will be hosted at ICTA-UAB. The candidates will work in close collaboration with the REAL project teams at ICTA-UAB and the University of Lausanne (led by Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis and Julia Steinberger), and in collaboration with the MAPS project team at the University of Barcelona (led by Daniel W. O’Neill and Federico Demaria). Candidates are expected to live and work in the Barcelona area. They will be primarily based at UAB, but also spend some time working with the modelling team at UB (e.g. one day per week). Successful candidates will also be supported in conducting a research stay at one of the other leading modelling teams in Europe.
Application requirements
The successful candidates will hold a PhD in Ecological/Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, or another field involving the modelling of environment and society. We seek candidates who have previous experience with Integrated Assessment Models, or heterodox economic models (e.g., ecological macro-economic models, models of social metabolism, agent-based models, and stock-flow consistent models); who have a good grounding in post-growth and degrowth scholarship, and who are prepared to work on climate mitigation scenarios and modelling post-growth policy implementation. Experience with programming is required. Experience with Input-Output modelling techniques is desirable but not required. Expertise related to the climate and land-use impacts associated with economic production, inequalities, and different lifestyles is also desirable but not required.
- Fluency in English is required. Fluency in Spanish or Catalan will be valued but is not required.
- Track record of research publications.
- The successful candidate will have ability and commitment to work both independently and collaboratively as part of the interdisciplinary teams of the REAL and MAPS projects.
- The full-time positions will be based in Barcelona. Successful candidates will be supported in their travel to conferences and presentations.
- Ability to create and contribute to a well-functioning, inclusive and productive research environment.
- The REAL and MAPS projects are committed to advancing the careers of junior women researchers, and researchers from under-represented backgrounds, who are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: March 18th 2024
Start date: June-September 2024 (Successful candidates are expected to take part in the kick-off of the MAPS project that will take place in Pontevedra, Spain between June 14th and June 17th.
Salary: Approximately €35,000 per year
How to apply
Please submit your CV, transcripts from previous degrees, and a motivation letter to Dr Aljoša Slameršak at postgrowth.call@gmail.com by March 18th 2024, 23:59 CET. The subject of your email should be: “Application for a postdoctoral position on Post-growth scenarios”. In your motivation letter, identify one of the major research gaps in existing sustainability literature, and include a brief research outline of a post-growth IAM (MAPS post-doctoral position) or an ecological macro-economic model (REAL post-doc position) that could address this gap. The proposal should have a of maximum 1000 words.
Online interviews of shortlisted candidates will be held in the first week of April 2024. Shortlisted candidates will be asked for two reference letters.
Postdoctoral position on Nature Based Solutions
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) is looking for a dedicated Post-Doctoral researcher to join our team for a 12-month+ position.
This role is an incredible opportunity to engage in transformative projects focused on Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), such as https://lnkd.in/dvcp3E4J & https://niches-project.eu/, across diverse landscapes from rural to urban settings in Europe and Latin America.
What You Will Do:
- Support co-creation, conduct interviews, and facilitate workshops aimed at implementing and critically evaluating NBS.
- Dive into projects like with a critical lens, contributing to vital discourse on how NBS can address global challenges like climate change, urban resilience, and societal well-being.
- Collaborate with leading researchers and contribute to scientific publications, joining a dynamic team at the forefront of environmental science.
Who We Are Looking For:
- A proactive researcher with a Ph.D. in Environmental Science or related fields, experienced in social-environmental research methodologies.
- A team player who is fluent in Catalan, Spanish, and English, capable of navigating international collaborations and contributing to interdisciplinary discussions.
- An individual driven by a passion for creating just, sustainable, and resilient environments through innovative research and practice.
Join Us:
This position is based in the vibrant city of Barcelona, a hub for environmental research and innovation. At ICTA-UAB, you’ll have the chance to make a significant impact on our understanding and implementation of NBS, working towards a sustainable future.
Interested candidates should send their CV and a cover letter to johannes.langemeyer@uab.cat by February 29, 2024. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful change and advance your research career in a supportive and dynamic environment.
3 Postdoctoral researchers - ERC CLIMGROW
Climate change has revived the limits-to-growth debate. Current research on support for climate policy neglects the role of this debate and associated opinion dynamics.
This ERC Advanced Grant project CLIMGROW studies to what extent concerns about economic growth, ranging from pro- to anti-growth, hamper social-political support for ambitious climate policy, and how this can be amended. The project covers 4 PhD students and 3 postdocs. We are now looking for candidates for the 3 postdoc positions. Using surveys, experiments and interviews, part I of the project assesses whether beliefs about growth-vs-environment affect opinions of stakeholders (voters, experts, policy-makers, NGOs, etc.) about climate policy, and if this is moderated by their preferences regarding instruments. It further tests the role of information by comparing the communicative appeal of distinct beyond-GDP metrics in experiments. In addition, it studies how growth concerns have affected the design of pledges in the Paris Agreement, as these demarcate national climate policies. Based on collected data and insights, part II of the project undertakes system dynamics and agent-based modelling to study co-dynamics of climate-policy design and support. It involves the comparison of growth strategies and climate policies under distinct beyond-GDP metrics, connecting this to stakeholder opinion dynamics, to assess which dynamic policy paths can count on stable and sufficient support under diverse economic and climate scenarios. Informed by results of parts I & II, part III explores strategies, including agrowth and post-growth, that can increase support for ambitious climate policy. Given stakeholder diversity, this involves interviews to formulate tailored strategies.
We are now inviting applications by 3 postdoc candidates or senior level researchers with one or more of the following skills (associated with parts I-III mentioned above):
- experience with questionnaire surveys and/or experiments, knowledge of applied statistics/econometrics, or experience with economic modelling (market/equilibrium, agent-based or network modelling).
- Publications on climate policy or economic growth are appreciated but not required.
- While the project has pre-defined tasks, there is also room for personal initiative. In addition, postdocs may – depending on their interest and expertise – co-supervise PhD students.
Conditions of employment
- Dedication: 4 years; 37,5 working hours/week. Monday-Friday, 9-17.30h
- Salary: 40.000-47.000 €, depending on the experience and skillset of the successful candidate.
Skills/languages/required experience
- Phd in Economics, Modelling, Statistics/econometrics, Psychology, Social sciences, Environmental sciences
- Excel, statistics software, modelling software (e.g., Python)
- English
- Finished PhD research, a previous postdoc position is appreciated but not required, publications in English language journals Knowledge of theory and practice of environmental/climate policy is appreciated.
More information: https://tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do?idEdicte=450926&idens=11
Applications: https://seleccio.uab.cat
Tècnic mitjà de Suport a la Recerca en economia circular - 2023PILIFRUA172
La persona escollida donarà suport a la línia de recerca en gestió de recursos per a una economia circular del grup Sostenipra, a través, principalment, del projecte BIDEKO.
Funcions
L'objectiu del projecte BIDEKO (PLEC2021-007801) és desenvolupar una nova generació de bateries primàries a petita escala que siguin capaços de satisfer les necessitats energètiques dels futurs dispositius electrònics d'una manera sostenible.
El projecte se centrarà en el desenvolupament de models de bateries basats en principis d'economia circular i sostenibilitat. Les funcions específiques a desenvolupar són:
- Proposar prototips de bateries utilitzant els principis d'Ecodisseny
- Crear inventaris de cicle de vida de diversos materials relacionats amb les bateries • Desenvolupar avaluacions del cicle de vida de les bateries i els seus materials relacionats
- Assistir a reunions i/o sessions formatives relacionades amb els projectes actius del grup i/o rellevants per a les funcions del lloc de treball.
- Elaborar informes i altres documents necessaris en el projecte o dins del grup de recerca
- Escriure articles de revisió entre iguals amb les principals conclusions
- Participar en la difusió de l'activitat científica en el seu àmbit de treball, si escau.
- Treballar de manera coordinada entre els membres del projecte.
Durada del contracte
En aplicació a la disposició addicional quarta del Reial decret llei 32/2021, de 28 de desembre, de mesures urgents per a la reforma laboral, la garantia de l’estabilitat en l’ocupació i la transformació del mercat de treball aquest contracte serà indefinit. La durada prevista inicialment a aquesta contractació està vinculada a la durada del finançament del projecte per a aquesta finalitat, preveient-se que aquest finançament tingui una durada de 12 mesos
Categoria: Tècnic mitjà de suport a la recerca LG2O
Dedicació: 28 hores / setmana
Horari específic: De dilluns a dijous, de 9 a 14:30 hores i els divendres de 8 a 14 hores
Retribució anual bruta (sou sense quota patronal): 27.089,09 € més la quantitat corresponent al Plus Campus i la resta de complements salarials que pertoquin.
Estudis
- Universitària de grau mitjà o Grau Universitari.
- Es valorarà Grau en Enginyeria, Ciències Ambientals, Nanociències o equivalent.
Informàtica: Bons coneixements de programari i bases de dades d'avaluació del cicle de vida.
Altres requisits valorables
- Màster en Estudis Ambientals, Energia i Sostenibilitat, o equivalent
- Coneixement de metodologies d'avaluació d'impacte ambiental, com ara Simapro i GaBi
- Coneixement de bases de dades
- Coneixements sobre bioplàstics i altres materials de base biològica com Ecoinvent, Gabi, GLAD entre d'altres
- Coneixement dels processos de producció industrial
- Capacitat de treballar en equip• Capacitat de comunicació
- NO es valora experiència en tècniques d'anàlisi química o anàlisi biològica
Termini de presentació de candidats: 42 dies naturals
Presentació de sol·licituds: https://seleccio.uab.cat
Més informació: https://tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do?idEdicte=444076&idens=11
Post-Doctoral Researcher (Ref 2023DILIFRUA76)
Job position requirements (skills/languages/required experience)
Achieving climate neutrality in the EU and globally requires ambitious policies that are cost-effective, fair, and politically feasible. The proposed project aims to improve the analysis of climate policy by improving our understanding of the relationship between effectiveness (emissions reduction) and support (political and social) through better accounting for the policy preferences and knowledge of voters and policymakers. This will draw on economic methods to study decision-making and policy evaluation. While the project has some pre-defined tasks, there is also a lot of freedom for personal initiative and interest.
We are looking for a postdoc or senior level researcher with a strong background in the assessment of climate policy, to contribute to the following tasks: review empirical and modelling studies of climate policy to examine how various types of heterogeneity (income, wealth, preferences, social networking) affect policy effectiveness; examine the consistency and complementarity of ex-ante and ex-post climate-policy evaluation; Investigate how policymakers employ scientific evidence, including ex-ante and ex-post studies, on climate change. Good journal publications in environmental and/or climate economics are required.
(Skills/languages/required experience)
- (Applied) economics, (applied) econometrics, environmental/climate economics
- Excel, statistics software
- English – (publications in English Language journals) Experience with data and statistics is valued Good knowledge of theory and practice of environmental and climate policy is appreciated as well.
- Finished PhD research, previous experience in a postdoc position is appreciated but not required
Benefits
Annual gross salary: €28.000 - €33.000-, depending on the experience
Postdoctoral researcher - ERC CONDJUST (Position 3)
We welcome applications to a post-doctoral research fellowship that will work on the ERC Advanced Grant “Conservation Data Justice (CONDJUST)” which is led by Dan Brockington. This fellowship lasts for 3.5 years and cannot be extended. Conservation Data Justice is an emerging research field that explores the data justice implications of data used in conservation decision-making, particularly in spatial prioritization exercises. Questions of data justice pertain to recognition – who is excluded from the data; procedure – how the data are compiled and distributed – what the consequences of different plans might be.
CONDJUST will interrogate conservation data and models and explore the epistemic communities producing them, to develop new theories of socially just, data-driven conservation. It will challenge the colonising tendencies of prioritisation work and seek decolonising alternatives.
The project is split into different work packages and four fellowships will be advertised for this project to work on them. An outline of all four positions and how they fit with each other is available here: https://danielbrockington.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/post-doc-advetisement-final-for-website-ii.pdf
Each appointed researcher will develop their own plan of research for their role. This advertisement is for the position available in work package 2.
Work Package 2
This work package looks for the positive outliers of effective conservation prioritisation. Through a collaborative process of codesign, in the first instance working with the ICCA consortium, the post-holder in this work package will explore cases of progressive and effective conservation that participants feel best address the challenges of conservation prioritisation. These are likely to be cases where ICCA members have themselves set the agenda of conservation prioritisation, and identified and mobilised their own priorities in ways which other conservationists can appreciate and support. This component will seek ways in which we can learn from more positive examples, where data, and diverse forms of data, are being used justly in conservation prioritisation.
This work package is highly likely to include work with communities and partners in the global south. Applicants are strongly encouraged to consider how this position fits with the others advertised by studying the description of all positions here: https://danielbrockington.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/post-doc-advetisement-final-for-website-ii.pdf
Skills, Attributes and Expected Activities
All applicants must be fully independent researchers who are able to devise their own research questions, methodologies, protocols, preparation for ethical review, writing, publication strategies, network building, and diverse forms of public engagement including social, media, film, and policy briefs.
Successful applicants will work as a team that will include PhD students who are working on CONDJUST´s fourth work package (https://tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do?idEdicte=435150&idens=11).
The post-holder must be ready to listen to advice, edits, and their peers, and present their work in diverse academic and practitioner fora. Their project needs to be able to function individually, if necessary, without being dependent on the success of other work packages. At the same time, they will be expected to work convivially to realise the synergies and possibilities of collaborative work across the CONDJUST project and with other research labs working in this area.
They are expected fully to participate in the intellectual life of ICTA by physically attending workshops, seminars, reading groups and away days. They are also expected to contribute material to the project website and companion sites about conservation data justice.
Applicants will need to prepare a planned research programme that responds to the tasks identified in the work packages above. Within that constraint, post-holders will enjoy considerable freedom as to how, precisely, they will fulfil those tasks. There are no constraints as to where they work, and there is good provision in the project budget for research placements and activities anywhere in the world. In your application you will need to explain what that proposed research programme is in a four-page document. This needs to be provided along with the other documents requested below.
Appointments Procedure
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted within a month of the closing date of these positions with instructions for interview procedures. There is some flexibility as to when appointments are taken up. We can wait for good people to be free.
More information on the UAB website
Further Enquiries
Dan Brockington would welcome further enquiries, for which please write to him directly at his UAB email address
Postdoctoral researcher - ERC CONDJUST (Position 4)
We welcome applications to a post-doctoral research fellowship that will work on the ERC Advanced Grant “Conservation Data Justice (CONDJUST)” which is led by Dan Brockington. This fellowship lasts for 3.5 years and cannot be extended. Conservation Data Justice is an emerging research field that explores the data justice implications of data used in conservation decision-making, particularly in spatial prioritization exercises. Questions of data justice pertain to recognition – who is excluded from the data; procedure – how the data are compiled and distributed – what the consequences of different plans might be.
CONDJUST will interrogate conservation data and models and explore the epistemic communities producing them, to develop new theories of socially just, data-driven conservation. It will challenge the colonising tendencies of prioritisation work and seek decolonising alternatives.
The project is split into different work packages and four fellowships will be advertised for this project to work on them. An outline of all four positions and how they fit with each other is available here: https://danielbrockington.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/post-doc-advetisement-final-for-website-ii.pdf
Each appointed researcher will develop their own plan of research for their role. This advertisement is for the position available in work package 3.
Work Package 3
This work package explores debates about conservation prioritisation and data justice as issues of (mis)communication between different epistemic communities. These debates can be seen as the continuation of long-standing differences between natural and social sciences in conservation and the different questions, values, ontologies, epistemologies, and practices that they entail. The post-holder will use social networking analysis to explore the construction and constitution of the epistemic communities at work. They will explore cases of effective and ineffective interactions between these disciplines and will develop opportunities of action research that builds bridges across communities. They will also examine how these epistemic communities are constituted geographically, exploring their construction and formation in different places in the global north and south.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to consider how this position fits with the others advertised by studying the description of all positions here: https://danielbrockington.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/post-doc-advetisement-final-for-website-ii.pdf
Skills, Attributes and Expected Activities
All applicants must be fully independent researchers who are able to devise their own research questions, methodologies, protocols, preparation for ethical review, writing, publication strategies, network building, and diverse forms of public engagement including social, media, film, and policy briefs.
Successful applicants will work as a team that will include PhD students who are working on CONDJUST´s fourth work package (https://tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do?idEdicte=435166&idens=11).
The post-holder must be ready to listen to advice, edits, and their peers, and present their work in diverse academic and practitioner fora. Their project needs to be able to function individually, if necessary, without being dependent on the success of other work packages. At the same time, they will be expected to work convivially to realise the synergies and possibilities of collaborative work across the CONDJUST project and with other research labs working in this area.
They are expected fully to participate in the intellectual life of ICTA by physically attending workshops, seminars, reading groups and away days. They are also expected to contribute material to the project website and companion sites about conservation data justice.
Applicants will need to prepare a planned research programme that responds to the tasks identified in the work packages above. Within that constraint, post-holders will enjoy considerable freedom as to how, precisely, they will fulfil those tasks. There are no constraints as to where they work, and there is good provision in the project budget for research placements and activities anywhere in the world. In your application you will need to explain what that proposed research programme is in a four-page document. This needs to be provided along with the other documents requested below.
Appointments Procedure
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted within a month of the closing date of these positions with instructions for interview procedures. There is some flexibility as to when appointments are taken up. We can wait for good people to be free.
More information on the UAB website
Further Enquiries
Dan Brockington would welcome further enquiries, for which please write to him directly at his UAB email address