The Sustainability Research Group at the University of Basel, led by Prof. Dr. Janina Grabs, is looking for one postdoctoral researcher to investigate the governance of sustainable agri-food systems, with a particular focus on the implementation of mandatory sustainability legislation in tropical agri-food commodity chains. Your position The production of agricultural commodities such as coffee, cocoa, […]
Full-time PhD researcher (4 years): East Asia case-study Social Ocean Energy A Social Learning Approach to Global Marine Renewable Infrastructures Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), a full doctoral position is available from June 2024 in an international team studying environmental justice issues around wave and tidal power in East Asia, Southeast Asia […]
Doctoral candidate in Social Geography and Urban Studies We are looking for a Doctoral candidate to contribute to the project “The Home-Debt Nexus: Feminist perspectives on housing, gender, and everyday life”, starting in September 2024. The project addresses the nexus of indebtedness and making home. It explores women’s everyday responses to these challenges, and the […]
As part of the Flex-Mediation project, funded by ANR PEPR-TASE, we are offering a doctoral (36 months) or post-doctoral (24 to 30 months) contract at the Pacte Social Sciences Laboratory, Université Grenoble Alpes, starting in autumn 2024. The research will focus on “Energy communities and consumption adjustments” and will be supervised by Gilles Debizet (Pacte, […]
We are looking a highly motivated and research-driven Ph.D. candidate to join our dynamic team in exploring the intersection of skill formation and social policy. The position is part of a larger project on the governance of vocational training (GOVPET), financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Research and Innovation. It offers a unique […]
Heike Mayer is professor of economic geography at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Her research is in local and regional economic development with a focus on dynamics of innovation and entrepreneurship, place making and sustainability. Heike started her academic career in the United States, where she completed a Ph.D. in Urban Studies (Portland State […]
Dr. Huiwen Gong is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Environmental Social Sciences Department at Eawag and an affiliated member of Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sweden.
Tanya is a PhD candidate at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich. She is part of the Urban-Rural Systems team at Future Cities Laboratory, focused on capturing the different territorial transformation taking place across Monsoon Asia. Her doctoral work focuses on translating the territorial transformation unfolding in India’s Bengal region into policy evaluation tools by […]
A welcome message from the RSA Ambassador to Switzerland, Hugues Jeannerat Chers et chères membres de la RSA en Suisse, Au cœur de l’Europe, la Suisse est, à de nombreux égards, un laboratoire économique, social, politique et environnemental du développement régional et urbain. N’hésitez pas à me contacter si vous souhaitez bénéficier du soutien […]