The 2nd Workshop for Early Career Women in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics takes place on 16–17 March 2026. The workshop aims to support women-led research by bringing together advanced PhD students, fellows, and postdoctoral researchers working in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics. Participants will present their work, receive feedback from an LSE faculty discussant, […]
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) “Entanglements of Migration and Time in Post-Industrial Urban Europe (MITIME)” is seeking 15 doctoral candidates for its PhD training programme. MSCA-DNs are European Union–funded initiatives that train PhD students through international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral doctoral projects aimed at fostering scientific excellence and enhancing researchers’ career development. These positions […]
Research Positions at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society FCT 2025/26 Scientific Employment Stimulus, 8th Edition Call for expression of interests The Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho (CEPS UMinho) invites expressions of interest from highly qualified candidates to apply for a fixed-term research position for 3 years*, under the […]
The successful candidate will join our research activities within the Islands Centre for Net Zero (ICNZ), with the project based at Heriot-Watt University’s Orkney campus (ICIT). About the project This PhD project delves into the dynamics of residential energy consumption, system flexibility, and employs the systems transition engineering processes (STEPs) to tackle energy poverty with […]
Details and how to apply here: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swansea/current-vacancies/details/?opening-id=11064 The post is for both Physical and Human Geography applicants. See the post advert (the link above) for who to contact with informal enquiries about the job. The closing Date is 2nd January 2026.
As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from those of Minority Ethnic backgrounds as they are currently under-represented at this level in this area. All appointments will be made on merit or skill and experience relative to the role. Department of Geography and Environment Assistant Professor (Education) in Economic […]
Kellogg College, Oxford University’s largest graduate college is seeking a dynamic Postdoctoral Researcher who will work with the Global Centre of Healthcare and Urbanisation and form part of the research team, focusing on healthy urbanism. This role is fixed term for six months. The Role The Postdoctoral Researcher will co-develop a research proposal with the […]
At the University of Twente, section of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM), we are looking for suitable candidates for a PhD position in the field of social dynamics in the energy transition, specifically energy communities. This PhD position is about research into social dynamics of energy communities and their stakeholder ecosystem. Research involves case […]
Are you a UK student interested in supporting the transition to net zero, systems level thinking and learning from the lessons of the past? An interdisciplinary PhD position is available through the School of Engineering and School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham. Building on previous work, this project will decipher the […]
One position for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate as part of the ESRC-funded project The Peripheralisation of Asylum Accommodation, which investigates the evolution of contemporary asylum accommodation policy in England, as well as the conflicts it creates between different institutional and non-institutional actors and the experiences of people living in accommodation provided by the Home Office. If […]
The Gran Sasso Science Institute is organising SPACERAISE, an international summer school designed to equip international students (Bachelor, Master, and PhD levels) with theoretical insights and practical skills for working with non-traditional and geospatial observational data in applied economics and quantitative geography. The summer school will take place 18–22 May 2026, during the thematic week on […]
Advances in Spatial and Network Modelling for Policymaking – 2nd Edition Join us in May 2026 in Sevilla for the second edition of this workshop, hosted by the JRC. The call for papers is open until 15 February 2026. The workshop aims to promote scientific exchange among researchers, academics, and practitioners working on Spatial Econometrics […]
The Henley International Business Masterclasses are offered by Henley Business School to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers studying international business in business management, economic geography, and economics. The 2026 Spring Session consists of the following courses: 13 – 14 April 2026 International Business, Development and Policy by Rajneesh Narula with guest speakers Ganeshan Wignaraja and Chie […]
David Bassens is Professor of Economic Geography and Director of Cosmopolis: Centre for Urban Research at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). He is Deputy-in-Chief of Finance and Space and one of the founding members of the Global Network on Financial Geography. His earlier work on financial geography has dealt with the geographies of Islamic Finance and […]
Our reliance on cars is one reason why domestic transport is the UK’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2024). Using alternatives, like walking and cycling, can cut these emissions quickly (Brand et al., 2021), much quicker than even the quickest shift towards electric vehicles. Yet we continue […]
Vacancy: Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology – SOFI, Stockholm University The Postdoctoral position is part of the research programme “Sustainable synergies” (www.su.se/english/research/research-projects/sustainable-synergies). The aim of the programme, which is based on both internationally comparative research and in-depth analyses of Sweden and the Nordic countries, is to study how social policy and the welfare state can be […]
We are currently recruiting an assistant professor in the subject area of Sustainability Transitions at Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Technology Management and Economics. The position is connected to Mistra’s Environmental Research Leaders programme, which aims at enabling the funding of attractive and long-term associate senior lecturer positions within the field of environment and […]
University College Dublin is recruiting an Ad Astra PhD fellowship, with a starting date of September 2026. This position offers a 4-year scholarship and a research fund to support the PhD student’s research activities. The successful candidate will join the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice and will work under the supervision […]
PhD project: Just Tourism Tourism is an integral part of many economic strategies and is bound up with diverse economic, social, ecological and political injustices. The concept Just Tourism examines the ethical considerations of promoting different forms of tourism and their politics and policies, amongst operators, government and publics. Under the supervision of Prof. Brockington and […]
Loughborough University’s Department of Geography and Environment is pleased to invite applications for PhD studentships through the Midlands Graduate School (MGS) ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership — an accredited Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) DTP (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mgsdtp/). As part of this prestigious network, successful candidates will join a vibrant research community and receive world-class training and […]
Regional studies often treat the region as a sub‑national unit, and it spans from neighbourhoods to cross‑border macro‑regions. In Asia, this elasticity is intensified by language. Words that look equivalent on paper rarely carry identical histories, politics, or scales. This short piece reflects on the Chinese notion of quyu (区域) and how it travels between […]