Place leadership has come to be seen as the ‘missing factor of the regional development puzzle’ (Sotarauta et al, 2017), but how such leadership operates in environments of conflict and contestation is still poorly understood. Using Northern Ireland as an illustrative case, recent research has sought to better understand how place leadership dynamics manifest when […]
About the Project You will explore the transformative potential of social, solidarity, circular, and other grassroots economic initiatives such as repair cafés, community energy projects, alternative food networks, social enterprises, and transition towns to Just Sustainability Transformations in the North of England. As part of the JUST Centre team, your PhD will help marginalised communities […]
The FinGeo Seminar aims at debating on advances in financial geography within the following broad nexuses: (1) Geography, Finance, Development & Social Businesses (2) Geography, Finance & Environmental and Social Sustainability (3) Geography, Finance & Technology advances We will discuss, among others, about FinTech, AI-finance nexus, sustainable finance, biofianance, climate finance, finance for social business, […]
Dr. Lea Müller-Funk (Senior researcher (Elise Richter Fellow)) is looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join her ERC project RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement) as the main focus (85%) and my FWF project SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality) to a lesser extent (15%) starting preferably on 1 […]
The University of Barcelona is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for the Horizon Europe project CULTIVATE: Co-designing food sharing innovation for resilience. The position will begin in late October 2025 and is offered as a 12-month full-time contract, with potential extension until December 2026. About the Project: CULTIVATE is a Horizon Europe project advancing sustainability and […]
The Faculty of Science and Medicine of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, announces the opening of an open rank position of Professor in Human Geography in the Department of Geosciences. 1. GENERAL CONDITIONS We seek a colleague with an outstanding scientific track record in the field of human geography with a focus on environmental issues. […]
I’m reaching out to share a postdoctoral research opportunity at the University of Trento (Italy), which may be of interest to potential candidates in your network or institutions. The position is part of the EU Horizon-funded project PRUDENT and focuses on the topic: “Understanding farmer decision-making under risk and uncertainty from a behavioural economic perspective.” The postdoctoral fellow will […]
There are 4x 3-year postdoc positions available at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. These are part of our annual ‘HIPP’ scheme of postdoc fellowships to join thematic cohorts (https://hifmb.de/institute/hipp/). This year is focused on the topic of: The dilemma of the Southern Ocean: Ecosystems, sustainability and competing interests […]
We have an open PhD position at CICERO – Centre for International Climate Research in Oslo, Norway. CICERO is a globally leading center for interdisciplinary climate research, with a strong social science research environment focused on Norwegian and European energy policy. The position is for 4 years and consists of 75% work on the PhD […]
Our Horizon Europe project COAST-SCAPES at the Department of Geography, LMU Munich, is calling for applications for a research position on coastal resilience. Junior Researcher (doctoral student) on Coastal Resilience at LMU Munich (m/f/x) Work place: Department of Geography at LMU Munich, Germany Application deadline: Sunday, 24 August 2025 at Central Europe Time Application form: https://survey.ifkw.lmu.de/Coastalresilience/ […]
53 Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy Job vacancy starting: 01.10.2025 (MM-DD-YYYY) | Working hours: 40,00 | Classification CBA: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b (postdoc) Limited contract until: 30.09.2031 Job ID: 4259 Explore and teach at the University of Vienna, where over 7,500 brilliant minds have found a unique balance of freedom and support. Join us if you’re […]
Call for Applications 4th FinGeo School University of Bologna, Italy 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2026 The 4th FinGeo School will be held at University of Bologna (Italy) on the 31st January – 1st February 2026. A great weekend not to be missed! 👉 This edition will focus on inspiring in-field research methodologies in Financial […]
The 40th Anniversary of the miners’ strike has encouraged considerable academic and media attention on the nature and lessons of the strike (Hendy,2024), but less on the long-term economic and social consequences of Thatcher’s and subsequent Governments’ policies on the former Coalfields. Our report, on the impact of austerity on inequality and deprivation in the […]
Athens serves as a vital site of democratic heritage and urban evolution. Over the decades, its society and built environment have undergone a gradual but significant transformation. Like many historic cities, Athens faces complex challenges across social, economic, environmental, cultural, tourism, and security dimensions. This blog explores initiatives focused on the preservation and development of […]
The Department of Geography at King’s College London invites applications for a two-year (24 months), full-time (1.0 FTE) position as Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in Urban Studies. The post will be based in the research team of Professor Katie Meehan at KCL’s Strand Campus in central London. The Department of Geography at King’s College London invites applications for […]
Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued. We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Lecturer in Human Geography. The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research and […]
The Department of Human Geography at Lund University is hiring a PhD student in economic geography (4 years)! The student will also be affiliated with CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation Research). The research will be conducted within the field of economic geography and will focus on analysing global innovation dynamics in infrastructure sectors. The position is […]
We would like to draw your attention to a new call for visiting research fellows at Tema T – Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden, for the calendar year 2026. We would like to give both junior and senior researchers the opportunity to stay between one and two months at our department and engage with our vibrant […]
I would like to share a vacancy for a 2 year postdoc on the political ecology of construction materials and waste, at the University of Amsterdam, center for urban studies. Please share the vacancy to interested Phds searching for new opportunities to do critical empirical research on the urban metabolism. https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoc-on-the-political-ecology-of-construction-materials-and-demolition-waste-netherlands-14219 We are looking for […]
A PhD to Understand Complexity The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) announces the PhD in Contemporary Studies (DEC), which prepares a new generation of researchers to better understand and act on the uncertainties of contemporary complexity, in an intense environment of interdisciplinary knowledge creation. It brings together an ambitious, diverse and aggregating programme of different […]
I am pleased to announce a vacancy for a Professorship of Human Geography at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. We are looking for a scholar with proven expertise in the field of social and cultural geography with a particular emphasis on socio-spatial differences and/or (in)justice research. You can find more information here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/media/filer_public/f4/29/f42992a7-5daa-4186-966e-6f4e9c6b3709/ausschreibung_humangeographie_engl.pdf The application […]
The IDEES research centre at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is offering a postdoctoral position in population geography/spatial demography to work on the geographical analysis of population dynamics in France (full time, 2-year contract). The job description is attached. This post holder will be based in Rouen (Normandy), which is 90 minutes […]
I’m advertising two fully-funded 4-year PhD positions in Brussels: “Governing just transitions from the top: Barriers and levers to align urban polluter elites with sufficiency corridors”. Interested in doing a PhD on urban elites and just transitions, then get in touch! For one of the two PhDs, I would be particularly interested in seeing research […]