On 23 May 2024, the European Commission is launching the 2024 edition of the EU regional Social Progress Index (EU-SPI), with an event hosted by the Committee of the Regions, in Brussels. This is the third time the European Commission publishes the EU regional Social Progress Index, a composite indicator aiming at complementing GDP with […]
The research group Geopolitics of Energy and Industrial Transformation at the Research Institute for Sustainability, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam is looking for a researcher to work in our research project on the “Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: Sustainability Governance in the Hydrogen Sector”, funded by Germany’s Federal Foreign Office. The project will be analyzing the international […]
We are excited to announce two new PhD positions at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, as part of the NWO-funded ShaRepair project. These positions offer a unique opportunity to engage in pioneering co-creative social science research focused on analysing and scaling circular repairing and sharing practices in everyday urban life. More information can […]
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, […]
We are hiring a PhD candidate on ‘Market formation for sustainability innovations’ at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The PhD will investigate how markets for sustainable innovations have been created in the past, explore how technological, regulatory, and market-related factors contribute to market formations, and develop a future-oriented methodology to […]
STELLENAUSSCHREIBUNG In der Arbeitsgruppe „Wirtschaftsgeographie“ am Geographischen Institut der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, im Zuge des INTERREG Projekts „ClimatePol“ zum Thema Klimawandelanpassung in Kommunen in der Grenzregion Deutschland-Dänemark, ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt, spätestens aber zum 1. September 2024 eine Stelle als Wiss. Projektmitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) befristet bis zum 28. Februar 2027 zu besetzen. Die regelmäßige wöchentliche Arbeitszeit […]
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 […]
Three openings for postdoctoral researchers on the theme of environmental mobilities and migrations within the GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG project, please find more info in the attached pdfs and for direct links to the submission platform, see below. – Postdoctoral position “Environmental mobilities and migrations through the lens of gender with fieldwork in Malaysia“. – Postdoctoral position “Environmental mobilities […]
Call for Applications: 6 PhD candidates for the new CONNECT (“Transdisciplinary Research to Connect Conservation and Development through Basic Income Support”) research project Overview In accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the search is on for effective, scalable and sustainable approaches to improve the well-being and livelihoods of residents in lower-income countries. One option […]
The Master in Political Economy of European Integration offers an extraordinary, interdisciplinary Master programme, combining critical research in political sciences and sociology, law, and (heterodox) macroeconomics. The programme covers different dimensions of European integration such as environment and energy, labour and social reproduction, as well as money and trade, and offers several options for specialisation. […]
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 […]
The VID (ÖAW) is offering a PostDoc Position to join the Research Group Fertility and Family, headed by Tomáš Sobotka, to work on the project “Consequences of divorce: Heterogeneity by duration and gender” (CONDIV). The PostDoc position is offered in collaboration with the University of Vienna. The CONDIV project is led by Valeria Bordone and Caroline Berghammer. […]
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, […]
The Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp (Belgium) has the following full-time (100%) vacancy: Academic staff in the field of Socio-ecological inclusion and sustainability transitions. The new staff member will provide high-quality education in the new interuniversity MA in Sustainability Transitions and Socio-ecological Justice, a Dutch language master program organized by the University […]
Two funded phd-positions in research project: “Open geospatial data at the intersection of digital commoning, digital humanitarianism, and digital capitalism: Transformations and tensions in OpenStreetMap” @ Institutes for Geography @ University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) & @ University Halle/S. (Germany) Work tasks: The German Research Foundation funded research project “Open geospatial data at the intersection of […]
Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor (with tenure track) in sociology – organizations and inequalities, https://www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/news/recruitment-assistant-professor-tenure-track-sociology-organisations-and-inequalities.html GENERAL PROFILE The contemporary increase in inequalities requires studying the organisational fabric of classification, hierarchies, and subordination. The recruitment of an assistant professor specialising in organisational approaches to inequalities is intended to strengthen Science Po’s capacity to address these […]
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 […]
Imogen Liu is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Prior to joining the VU in 2023, she was a PhD candidate at Maastricht University where her dissertation focused on the transnational integration of Chinese state capital in Europe. Situated at the intersection of political economy, economic geography and development studies, […]
Kerstin J. Schaefer is an assistant professor in Economic Geography at Utrecht University (UU); a research fellow at the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography at Leibniz University Hanover (LUH) and a visting scholar at the Department of Geography & Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE). After finishing her PhD at LUH in […]
Ron Boschma is a Full Professor in Regional Economics at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. He also holds a Chair in Innovation Studies at the UiS Business School, Stavanger Centre for Innovation Research, at Stavanger University. He has widely published in international journals on Evolutionary Economic Geography, the spatial […]
Dimitri Corpakis, is an independent expert, writing and talking on innovation, growth and technological change. An engineer and planner by training, he has more than 30 years’ experience on the European integration process. Dimitri worked for the European Commission in Brussels as well as for the Greek civil service. Prior to retiring from the European […]
The OECD’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) helps national, regional and local governments unleash the potential of entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), promote inclusive and sustainable growth in regions and cities, boost local job creation and implement sound tourism policies. Our work helps shape public policies to support growth, resilience […]
This blog follows the recent release of the book Paradiplomacy in Europe. The cases of Galicia, Åland, Flanders and Greenland. The idea of the “Europe of the regions”, multilevel governance, and the so-called paradiplomacy (Aldecoa and Keating, 2000) of substate governments is something that has less of a shine than what was the case […]
Staying in or Moving out? – Quality of Life, Interregional Migration Decisions and Covid-19 Although COVID-19 is a global health emergency, it is experienced in local contexts, which may not all be equally equipped to offer good quality of life in pandemic conditions. Exogenous shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and associated “lockdown” policies, may […]