Jobs & bourses

15./19.02.25

3 positions for the project: “Whose sustainability? Understanding and redefining just sustainability transformations from disability and queer perspectives” (WEIRD)

University of Helsinki

With an intersectional approach that foregrounds and leverages disability and queer perspectives around environmental sustainability, WEIRD aims to (a) critically appraise the way in which we usually think about sustainability transformations, (b) empirically understand how people with disability and from gender and sexual minorities are enacting and prefiguring alternative, just, and more environmentally sustainable futures, and (b) creatively redefine and generate new theories of justice in sustainability transformations. The research design of the project is organized in two main tracks: the first looking at the intersection of environmental sustainability and disability and the second investigating the intersection of environmental sustainability and queer.

PD position (3 years): Understanding and redefining just sustainability transformations from disability perspectives 

PhD position (4 years): Understanding just sustainability transformations from disability perspectives 

PhD position (4 years): Understanding just sustainability transformations from queer perspectives 

Appliaction Deadline: 15/19 February 2025

21.03.25

PostDoc position 2 years in the project “INSIGHTS – Lessons learned for engaging at science-society interfaces”

eawag

The ‘accompanying research’ (‘Begleitforschung’) project INSIGHTS carried out jointly by Eawag and EPFL will derive overarching lessons learned and best practices on how to engage with different societal actors at science-practice and science-policy interfaces, using four Joint Initiative Projects as empirical case studies. Joint initiatives (JIs) are large-scale inter- and transdisciplinary projects co-funded by the ETH Board and conducted by the institutions of the ETH Domain (ETHZ, EPFL, WSL, EAWAG, PSI, EMPA) and external partners.
 

The project will be part of a broader effort within Eawag to foster systematic learning across larger inter- and transdisciplinary research projects, programs or initiatives (Wings, Trapego, Trebridge, BGB) with a view to developing ‘how to’ practical knowledge for strengthening dialogue processes at these interfaces. In particular, the project will address the following research questions:

• How are dialogue processes in JIs structured and developed over time?
• What challenges and opportunities do project members (researchers and societal actors) experience? What strategies do they employ to overcome challenges and leverage opportunities? 
• What contributions do JIs make to science and society? 
• What lessons learned and best practices can be derived for future initiatives aiming at engaging with different societal actors at science-society interfaces? 

Appliaciton Deadline: 21 March 2025

28.02.25

Post-Doctoral Researcher | Research Group Migration and Health Inequalities

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is seeking to appoint a full-time post-doctoral researcher to join the ERC-funded Research Group on Migration and Health Inequalities. The group, led by Silvia Loi, brings together experts from Demography, Quantitative Sociology, and Social Epidemiology to address the pressing scientific and societal question: Why do immigrants age in poorer health compared to non-immigrants?

The research group agenda builds up on these three research areas:

1.    quantify the gaps in healthy ageing trajectories between immigrants and non-immigrants by age, gender, socioeconomic status, and their interactions;

2.    identify the critical events and circumstances in immigrants’ lives that put them on a different healthy ageing trajectory from non-immigrants;

3.    study the impact of family composition and family ties in mitigating health inequalities by migration background.

Application Deadline: 28 February 2025

15.02.25

Early-Career Fellowship 2025–2026

Collegium Helveticum

The Collegium is calling for submissions from all disciplines for 10-month residential early-career fellowships in Zurich. Apply until February 15, 2025. Early-career fellows are free to pursue their individual projects as outlined in their application and receive support from the Collegium’s team. Projects carried out at the Collegium may convince both by their relevance and originality, spanning from applied science to blue-sky research, as well as from fine arts to artistic research. The Collegium also encourages small interdisciplinary teams of up to three people to apply with a joint project.

Application Deadline: 15 Feburary 2025

20.02.25

PhD: Interdisciplinary Co-Supervisor

University of Copenhagen

The PhD candidate will be part of a longitudinal study, following the new INTERACT programme, where they'll get to follow and study a large cohort of interdisciplinary PhD fellows while being part of the programme themselves. Although the application process is quite fixed, there is ample opportunity to influence and design the study. As their main supervisor, I'm looking for candidates from any academic background - the key requirements are a genuine interest in interdisciplinary higher education research and experience with qualitative methods.

The call is here and potential candidates are welcome to contact for further details. The deadline for application is February 20.

Key details:

• Fully funded 36-month fellowship in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Focus on interdisciplinary higher education research
• Part of a major EU-funded initiative
• International candidates required (must have worked outside Denmark for 2+ years of the last 3 years)

01.03.25

Research Position in Computational and Climate Archaeology

University of Bern

The Prehistory Department of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences, associated at the Oeschger Centre of Climate Change (OCCR) at the University of Bern, Switzerland, is searching for an outstanding and motivated Computational Archaeologists to explore the response of prehistoric communities to climate-driven hazards and environmental changes. The aim is to research how cultural, economic and social diversities in space and time led to specific vulnerabilities and resilience strategies, from foragers to farming communities. The position provides an excellent opportunity to specialize in the dynamically evolving and impactful field of climate archaeology, computational archaeology, archaeological and paleoclimatic data modelling as well as time series statistics in an international and interdisciplinary research environment in the scope of the HORIZON-project “Past-to-Future: Towards fully Paleo-informed Future Climate Projections” of the Cluster 5 “Climate, Energy, Mobility” funding programme. The Swiss part of the project is funded by the SERI (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation).

Start of employment: 01.03.25