Convocatoria: 1-year postdoctoral contract on Sustainability Transformations in Rural Spain – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Plazo: 30 de septiembre de 2023)

1-year postdoctoral contract on Sustainability Transformations in Rural Spain – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Organismo: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Requisitos:
    A PhD in Environmental Science, Geography, Political Science, Economics, Sociology or similar.
    Accredited knowledge of sustainability transitions/transformations, social innovation, and/or collective entrepreneurship literature.
    Accredited experience with secondary literature review.
    Accredited experience with individual and group interviews.
    Good level of English (fluently spoken and written) and Spanish (fluently spoken).

Desirable skills (NO son imprescindibles): Knowledge of European rural development policy, and Experience with GIS

Solicitudes:

If interested, please send an email of interest before the 30 th of September:

• A 300-words max. statement of interest.
• A 4-page max. CV, including information about education, job posts, fieldwork experience, skills, and key achievements (publications, grants, research impact, etc.), particularly if they fit the position´s requirements.

Contact information Sergio Villamayor-Tomas: villamayortomas@gmail.com o sergio.villamayor@uab.cat

Comentarios:

Job Description

• We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead a study to on the transformative potential of social innovation projects in rural Spain. The postdoc will start as soon as possible, and work within the SUSTAIN project, hosted at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

The SUSTAIN project

• Spain is confronted with a sustainability transition paradox. On the one hand, many rural regions are highly vulnerable to interacting socio-demographic and environmental problems. On the other hand, such vulnerability makes of those regions a unique experimentation niche for new, alternative forms of sustainable development. These new development experiences could potentially reduce the vulnerability of rural regions, empower the elderly, immigrant, and women populations, and show the path for others to follow. SUSTAIN aims to better understand the conditions under which those experiences are more likely to emerge and thrive, as featured by local communities.

Tasks Primary

• Assist the completion of an ongoing meta-analysis of bottom-up, transformative projects in rural Europe and the write-up of a scientific article with the resulting data
• Lead a study of LEADER-funded projects and their transformative potential in rural Spain and the publication of a scientific article about it.

Secondary (optional)

• Co-write a newspaper article on sustainability transformations in rural Spain.
• Co-supervision of 1 Master’s student.

Conditions of employment

• Dedication: 100% for 1 year; 37,5 working hours/week.
• Salary: 32,000 gross/year (negotiable depending on responsibilities assumed).
• Holidays: 4 weeks per year.
  

Plazo de presentación: Hasta el 30/09/2023 (Susceptible a error de cálculo, comprobar siempre)

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