Project: InCommon – Reconceptualizing Individual and Collective Housing Preferences Positions: 2 Full-Time PhD Researchers (1.0 FTE) Duration: 48 months, fixed-term Start date: 1 October 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter) Are you passionate about housing, sustainability, and social change? Join an international, interdisciplinary research team at TU Delft and explore how shared and collective […]
The Institute for Socioeconomics at the University of Duisburg-Essen is hiring a researcher at doctoral or postdoctoral level for 5 years from 1 October 2025. Application deadline is 5 July. Details can be found here: https://www.uni-due.de/karriere/stelle.php?kennziffer=249-25. Just to say that we are a diverse bunch of scholars, united by the desire to conduct critical/plural/heterodox social […]
The Department of Geography at Durham University seeks to appoint an outstanding individual to an Associate Professorship in Human Geography. The post is part of Durham University’s strategic Heritage 360 initiative and applicants must demonstrate research excellence in the field of Heritage Landscapes and/or Social Justice and Wellbeing in heritage, with the ability to teach […]
We are pleased to announce a vacancy for a W2-Professorship for Spatial Planning and Governance at Universität Trier, Germany. The post is a permanent civil service position, which involves leading a research group within the geography cluster in Faculty VI (Spatial and Environmental Sciences). We are looking for a scholar with proven expertise in the […]
The Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, invites applications for a fixed-term postdoctoral researcher position (2 years) starting 1 October 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. This position is part of the BIZPOWER (Business Power in the Politics of Wage Inequality and Climate Change) project, which investigates how […]
Child poverty is regarded as a multidimensional, yet heavily economically based phenomenon. Previous studies on the UK or OECD countries underline the role of low income, job insecurity and worklessness, especially in lone-parent and minority households (Bradshaw, 2002; Thevenon et al., 2018). Additionally, in-work poverty is rising, and other factors, like housing, parental health and […]
The Geography of Innovation Conference provides a forum for discussion to scholars interested in scientific, policy and strategic issues concerning the spatial dimension of innovation activities. In line with the seven previous editions of the conference, held in Saint Etienne (France) in 2012, Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2014, Toulouse (France) in 2016, in Barcelona (Spain) in […]
The first signs of a slowdown in residential address changing were identified towards the end of the last century, starting in the USA, as is so often the case with social trends and then being found to be particularly marked across the rest of the New World. But other countries, including the UK, have not […]
The Sir Terry Leahy Doctoral Scholarship in Urban and Regional Economics, Economic Geography, or Real Estate and Regeneration Analysis Register interest here About the Project Applications are invited for a fully-funded four-year doctoral scholarship in the fields of urban and regional economics and economic geography, with a particular focus on understanding of the economic, social, […]
The “advantage of backwardness”—the notion that low-income countries can grow faster by borrowing and adapting existing technology—has long been central to the theory of economic convergence. However, transition countries seeking European Union (EU) membership have been lagging behind. Despite some progress, the gap between them and the EU remains substantial. Why have these countries struggled […]
Call for Proposals for the Regional Studies Association’s Regions & Cities Book Series Published by Routledge Places, Networks, and Uneven Spatial Development Regions and cities develop unevenly, within and without, and value is created spatially across their unevenness through places and networks. Regions and cities are sub- and supra-national geographies, often with contested, overlapping boundaries, […]
The School of Governance, Law and Society at Tallinn University is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and talented PhD student to join the ERA Chair in Sustainable Futures project (SustainERA, DOI: 10.3030/101186958). The general PhD topic, “Policy Development for Governing Sustainability Transitions,” will be supervised by Prof. Leif Kalev (main supervisor) and Dr. Tarmo […]
We are looking for an ambitious PhD student to analyze the political ecology of coastal urbanization by developing a qualitative case study on the labour and workers behind dredging and land reclamation in Singapore, an often invisiblized labour that nevertheless laid the foundation for this global city of finance and trade. The focus is on […]
We are opening a call for applicants for a full-time two-year postdoctoral position at the Geography Research Unit of the University of Oulu, Finland. You will be working for the project “Militarised Indigenous Borderscapes: Reconfiguring geographies of war and borders,” funded by the Research Council of Finland. The project will study the impacts of militarisation […]
We are recruiting a PhD researcher for the project Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The PhD is planned as a joint degree with the University of Basel and University of Amsterdam, and is fully funded for 4 years. The ideal candidate is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese […]
Could you please circulate the information regarding the two following positions just opened at the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lausanne. Tenure-track assistant professor or Associate Professor in International relations in Environmental policies Senior Lecturer (type 1) in International Relations/International Political Economy Non-French speaking applicants may have a delay of […]
We have an open position for a research associate / PhD to join our project on contemporary manifestations of authoritarian urbanism in Hungary and Serbia, which is meant to start in September 2025. We are looking for people with an urban studies background (master in geography, sociology, urban planning, architecture and related fields) who are […]
The University of Reading is recruiting a Post-doctoral Research Associate into Just Energy Transitions. JUST-Systems is a £5.6 million research programme, funded by the UKRI call ‘Systems approaches to advance the UK’s transition to net zero’. As a postdoctoral fellow, you will join an inclusive environment supporting career development, management and transdisciplinary training on Just […]
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a substantial growth in the level of home-based and flexible working, and higher levels of such working have persisted in the post-Covid period. This shift in working patterns has had varied and wide-ranging impacts on both the mobility patterns of such workers and their mental and social wellbeing, which have […]
The Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), in partnership with the Institute of Geography at the University of Leipzig, the Sorbian Institute in Bautzen, and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, invites Papers for the international conference “Difference and Belonging: Indigenous and Autochthonous National Minorities in Europe’s Transforming Regions” (MINREG2025). Following the Charta of the […]
The Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations (ISSET) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business invites applications for two full-time, tenure track positions in the areas of “Social-Ecological Provisioning” (Job id: 2402) and “Multi-Level Transformations” (Job id: 2401). The link to the job advertisements can be found here. Post-doc-Level – Jobs – Jobportal<https://www.wu.ac.at/karriere/jobportal/jobs/auf-post-doc-level>. Knowledge […]
Postdoctoral position on measuring the long-term acceleration and crisis of industrial societies Expected starting date: 1 September 2025 Duration of employment: 36 months (until 30.08.2028), with a possibility of extension up to the end of the project (30.04.2030) Working time: 100% (40 hours per week) Application deadline: 15 June 2025 The purpose of the postdoctoral research project is to […]
The following piece is a brief extract from a more comprehensive study on the impact of two trends in the context of Cohesion Policy: hyper-Lisbonisation and re-nationalisation. The article investigates how these trends are intertwined with the reiterative resort to employing Cohesion Policies funds outside of their original objectives and legal provisions, particularly to counterbalance […]
Leaving No One Behind? Navigating Regional Socio-Economic and Employment Impacts in the Context of Just Transition Transitioning to a low-carbon economy is crucial for sustainability and climate resilience, but it requires significant transformation, particularly in vulnerable regions with economic and social disadvantages. The purpose of this project is to analyse the socio-economic impacts of transitioning […]