[voew-listserver] post-doc opportunity at CDCA
- From: "Andreas Thiel" <a.thiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ress@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <ak-umwelt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <voew-listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:09:23 +0200
Von: lucie greyl [mailto:lucie.cdca@xxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. Juni 2012 18:51
An: lucie greyl
Betreff: post-doc opportunity at CDCA
The European Network for Political Ecology (ENTITLE) offers 4 post-doc
fellowships available to candidates from all over the world. ENTITLE is an
EU-funded Initial Training Network whose aim is to promote European research
and advanced training on the field of political ecology, including the study of
the commons, environmental conflicts, movements, disasters, ecological
democracy and environmental justice. One applicant will be hosted in the
coordinating unit at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (
<http://www.eco2bcn.es/> www.eco2bcn.es) and one in each of the non-academic
partners of the network in Rome ( <http://www.cdca.it/> www.cdca.it), in
Bethelem-Palestine ( <http://wedo-pal.org/> http://wedo-pal.org/) and Barcelona
(ent.cat). For information on eligibility criteria, conditions and application
procedures visit <http://www.politicalecology.eu/> www.politicalecology.eu; or
email for further information entitle2012@xxxxxxxxxx Deadline for applications:
4th of July 2012.
This is a call for 4 experienced researcher positions (post-doc level), which
will work alongside our 12 recruited early stage (PhD level) researchers.
Experienced researchers are expected: i) to participate and contribute to the
training activities of the network (intensive courses on political ecology and
theory, and Summer School on Environmental Conflicts), ii) develop their
research and publish in one of the core research areas of the network
(conflict, commons, movements, disasters, justice) ideally in collaboration
with other partners of the network, iii) contribute to project and other
related activities of the host organization. In general, fellows are expected
to devote 50% of their time on research and publication and 50% in management,
training and collaboration activities with their host.
Successful applicants will be given a contract with a salary, mobility
allowance and additional funds for research-related costs. The salary includes
a living allowance (58500 € annually -/+ a correction factor for each country
that can be checked at the Marie Curie website). This is a gross salary; net
salary will be derived after deductions that will apply in the host country,
such as taxes and social security. In addition, recruited researchers will
receive a mobility allowance (700 - 1000 euros per month, depending on country
correction factor and family situation); in some countries this mobility
allowance is subject to taxes, in others not.
About the ENTITLE project
ENTITLE is an EU-funded Initial Training Network under the Marie Curie actions
of FP7, coordinated by ICTA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (
<http://www.eco2.bcn/> www.eco2.bcn) and with the collaboration of 11 research
and NGO partners. ENTITLE will train 17 researchers in the emerging
supra-disciplinary field of Political Ecology, giving them the theoretical,
analytical and complementary skills that will make them employable in jobs
related to environmental policy analysis and advocacy. Research and training
are framed around five key cluster sub-programmes concerned with the analysis
of: environmental conflicts; environmental movements; natural disasters;
changes in the commons; and environmental justice and democracy. Research is
based on a series of empirically-based investigations of a geographically and
thematically diverse set of case-studies. The researchers of the network will
collaborate to offer a theoretical and methodological framework for the
empirical research and will synthesise the results of the individual cases in a
series of publishable outputs. Research will be action and policy-oriented
culminating in a series of Action and Policy Briefs targeting civil society
organizations and policy-makers.
Training includes an integrated curriculum of local and intensive network
courses, summer schools, secondments and training through work. Researchers
will be seconded to and recruited by one SME and two NGO partners of the
project, building bridges between academia and practice. ENTITLE builds on an
on-going collaboration in training between the participating institutions,
manifested in a series of successful summer schools (
<http://www.environmentalconflicts.com/> www.environmentalconflicts.com). It
brings together some of the world ́s top scholars in political ecology, and
overcomes the fragmentation of existing political ecological research in
Europe, offering a critical mass of research and training. The researchers
trained in the network will be employable in academia, public administration
and NGOs.
Post-doc at CDCA
Post 2
Duration: one year, starting October 2012
We are looking for a researcher with an activist profile who will support the
scientific activities and competences of the Documentation Centre on
Environmental Conflicts. Among the tasks of collaboration, these include
database and geo-referenciation work on environmental conflicts and
environmental justice; research development on local, national and/or
international dimensions, functional to social sectors; local action research;
communities and social sectors’ (social movements, associations, trade unions,
local authorities) capacity building. We will particularly value researchers
with expertise on: environmental conflicts and environmental justice; just
sustainability and climate change; environmental crime, institutions and
jurisprudence; - ecological conversion of the economy and energy conversion of
cities and industries; common goods, public basic services and privatization;
social movements and new political subjectivities. Valued skills include
experience with: advocacy and campaigning; work with communities and social
movements; capacity building; action research; cartography and related ICT
tools; participation methodologies and multi-stakeholder dialogue facilitation;
project development and management. Working knowledge of Italian will also be a
plus.
Eligibility criteria
Applicants:
1- should have a PhD, have filed their dissertation or be committed to file it
by October 2012. Applicants who plan to file their dissertation at a latter
date will not be considered.
2- should have less than 5 years of research experience counting from the date
of obtaining the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a
doctorate, either in the country in which the degree was obtained or in the
country in which the research training is provided.
The degree from which time counts is typically the Masters´ degree or its
equivalent in non-European countries. Only full-time research experience counts
(part-time counts as part-time, i.e. one year at 50% counts as half a year).
For example, a researcher who did a 3 years PhD after finishing the masters and
then a 1.5 years post-doc is eligible to apply for our network. A researcher
who did a 4.5 years PhD and then is unemployed, or worked in a non-research
job, is also eligible to apply. A researcher who did a 4-year PhD and has more
than one year of additional full-time research experience (defined as being
contracted by a research institution), either before the PhD (but after the
Masters), or after the PhD, is not eligible.
3- must not have resided or carried out their main activity in the country of
the host institution for more than 12 months in the 4 years between October
2008 - October 2012.
Application procedure
Applicants should submit by email:
(i) an application form that can be found here.
(ii) A max 2-page motivation statement explaining the reasons for their
interest in the position, their skills in relation to the profiles for the
posts, and the contribution of their past and future research to the field of
political ecology.
(iii) a curriculum vitae.
(iv) a published (or in press, or accepted) peer-review publication in an
English-speaking journal or if not available, a chapter from the dissertation,
together with its Table of Contents.
The application should be sent by email to entitle2012@xxxxxxxxxx The subject
of the email message should have the following structure <”Entitle
Application”> (e.g. Entitle Application, John Smith, Post 2). Attachments
should include: i) a single pdf document titled with the name of the applicant
and merging the application form, the motivation statement and a CV and ii) a
separate pdf with the publication.
In addition the applicants should ask an academic referee to send a reference
letter to entitle2012@xxxxxxxxx, email and attachment titled with the name of
the applicant.
The deadline for applications is the 4th of July 2012, 9pm Central European
Time (please take into account time differences). Decisions will be
communicated to applicants by the end of July. Fellowship contracts should
start by the 1st of October 2012.
Equal Opportunity
ENTITLE is an equal opportunity network.
All the info: <http://www.politicalecology.eu/> http://www.politicalecology.eu/
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Lucie Greyl
CDCA - Centro di Documentazione sui Conflitti Ambientali
www.cdca.it <http://www.cdca.it/>
lucie.cdca@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:luciegreyl@xxxxxxxx>
(+39) 345 101 72 32
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