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A 5-year research fellowship based at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Although worded more broadly, the search manager is prioritizing applicants working at the intersection of biodiversity and the social sciences, especially nature-based economics and demography. Darwin-Hamied Senior Research Fellowship (stipendiary) in the Social Science of Biodiversity| Christs College Cambridge: https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-hamied-senior-research-fellowship-stipendiary-social-science-biodiversity Christ’s College invites applications for a […]

Interested in applying for a NINE DTP PhD studentship? Staff in the School of Geography and Natural Sciences at Northumbria University welcome expressions of interest for applications to the Environment, Climate and Sustainability and Human Geography pathways. Submission deadline in early January, with an earlier internal review. Find full details here: https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk/awards/

We’re inviting applications for a 3-year part-time (65%) Doctoral Research Associate position as part of the interdisciplinary project “Extreme Adaptation to Climate Change.” The project is based at the Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS) Cluster of Excellence, University of Hamburg. The application deadline is 4 November 2025 and the start date is 1 April 2026. The post will involve working […]

At the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT), we are working very actively to address all the dimensions of energy poverty in collaboration with the Chair of Energy and Poverty of Comillas Pontifical University (Madrid, Spain). To extend this work into the design, planning and evaluation of just energy efficiency and community energy policies, we […]

see ad for all the details: https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Two-PhDs-in-the-History-of-Migrant-Women's-Labour-in-Postwar-Europe/1329013757/    The Department of History is looking for two PhD candidates to undertake archival and oral history research on women’s migration and work. You will be part of a new European Research Council-funded project entitled FeMMiWork: Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe.   […]

The University of Greifswald’s Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences is seeking candidates for the position of Junior Professor (W1) of Geographies of Transformation and Spatial Justice  (no tenure track) for appointment by 1 October 2026. At the Institute of Geography and Geology, we conduct interdisciplinary research on the interactions between social change and geosystems […]

The SPARK project is hiring a new postdoctoral fellow to conduct empirical research on their choice of the parliaments of either UK/Scotland (mixed methods); Germany/Bavaria (mixed methods); UK, Scotland, Germany and Bavaria (quantitative methods); or another configuration. This full-time post is fixed term for a period of 30 months (i.e. 2.5 years) available from as […]

The International Conference on Urban e-Planning, the annual event of the Urban e-Planning Research Network (UEPNET), will mark its 10th edition in 2026. It is organized in collaboration with the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR). It will be held online from 8–10 April 2026. After nine successful conferences from 2016 to 2025, the 10th […]

Earlier in 2025, the UK government announced a commitment to reduce spending on disability benefits by restructuring entitlements and eligibility to various health-related benefits. It claims through its Pathways to Work, papers that it seeks to reduce economic inactivity across the UK ‘…[so] that everyone who can realise the benefits of work is expected and […]

In the UK, the Covid-19 pandemic was marked by strong spatial differences in the strictness and duration of government-mandated lockdowns. The average number of weeks spent in strict lockdown was 50% higher in urban local authorities than in rural ones. The marked increase in working from home that ensued, largely facilitated by the use of […]

A fully-funded 3.5 year ESRC PhD studentship on the topic “Climate urbanism: sustainability for the affluent?”. The studentship is part of the CAM-DTP (University of Cambridge/Anglia Ruskin University) and will sit primarily within the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, with a secondary affiliation to the Global Sustainability Institute at ARU (Cambridge campus) […]

This is to make you aware of an exciting opportunity at St John’s College, University of Oxford, for someone who has recently completed, or is about to complete, their doctorate in human geography (any area). Career Development Research Fellowships for full-time research offered by St John’s College to early career researchers who have recently completed […]

Department of Geography and Environment Assistant and Associate Professor in Urban Planning (2 Separate Posts) Assistant Professor salary is no less than £68,087 per annum Associate Professor salary is no less than £80,927 per annum The salary scale can be found on the LSE Website We are recruiting two positions: one Associate Professor and one Assistant […]

We are glad to announce the Winter School Geography of Innovation for doctoral students and junior researchers, jointly organized by the University of Pavia and Icrios-Bocconi University. It will be held at the University of Pavia on February 2-6 For information and registration please visit: https://tinyurl.com/paviawinterschool2026 Key features: 5 days intensive training programme  Participants present their research & discuss their publication strategies 10 speakers  Two […]

Devolution has been at the core of the UK government’s initiatives to reduce regional inequality across the country. The Conservatives’ ‘Levelling up’ agenda was built around it, and Labour’s plan to ‘Power Up Britain’ also relies on the empowerment of local and sub-regional authorities and communities, based upon an analysis that areas have been ‘held […]

Henley International Business Masterclasses – Autumn 2025 The Henley Business School offers the Henley International Business Masterclasses to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers who are studying International Business topics in the fields of business management, economic geography, and economics. The Autumn 2025 Session consists of the following courses: Strategy and International Business, by Alain Verbeke: […]

The UK government can meet some of its biggest challenges by combining mayoral devolution with its mission-led approach. Empowering local leaders to deliver on national missions will mean giving them greater control and bigger budgets. In the UK, Keir Starmer’s Labour government has had a rocky first year in office. With opinion polls tumbling and […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 UK has historically failed to learn important lessons from European countries on spatial rebalancing. It has recently acknowledged the need for effective local institutions and a long-term national strategy, but its asymmetric approach is unlikely to reduce geographic inequality. The failure of levelling up When the previous UK government launched its levelling up agenda […]