24Feb 2015
Postdoctoral positions Leuphana University, Luneberg, Germany
13:28 - By Hal Colebatch
Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Faculty of Sustainability is advertising four postdoctoral positions in its interdisciplinary program on Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation, focusing on Institutions, People and Knowledge. Drawing on insights from systems thinking and solution-oriented transdisciplinary research, this project will focus on hitherto under-recognized leverage points – system properties where a small shift can lead to fundamental changes in the system as a whole. Leverage Points will focus on changes in relatively intractable, but potentially highly influential, system properties that could help to realign complex social-ecological systems to the normative goals of sustainability. For details on the project, see www.leveragepoints.org The deadline for all four positions is 10th March, 2015.
This position focuses on processes of institutional change for sustainability, with an empirical focus on restructuring food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE) and Transylvania (RO). RESTRUCTURE will address dynamics (transformations) in institutional arrangements, and the productive functions of institutional decline in particular. More information and how to apply here: https://leveragepointsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/pd1_job_description-1.pdf PD2: RECONNECT: Conceptualising and quantifying human-nature connections This position focuses on conceptualising and quantifying human-nature connections and how changes in such connections relate to sustainability outcomes, in food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE) and Transylvania (RO). More information and how to apply here: https://leveragepointsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/pd2_job_description-1.pdf PD3: RETHINK: Sustainability-related knowledge creation and use (Germany) This position focuses on consolidating conceptual foundations related to new forms of knowledge pro- duction and use, and will apply these to local transdisciplinary case studies. The themes of the case studies will revolve around the food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE) and Transylvania (RO). This position focuses on the Lower Saxony case, but contributes to the Transylvania case. More infor- mation and how to apply here: https://leveragepointsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/pd3_job_description-1.pdf PD4: RETHINK: Sustainability-related knowledge creation and use (Romania) This position focuses on consolidating conceptual foundations related to new forms of knowledge pro- duction and use, and will apply these to local transdisciplinary case studies. The themes of the case studies will revolve around the food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE) and Transylvania (RO). This position focuses on the Transylvania case, but contributes to the Lower Saxony case. More infor- mation and how to apply here: https://leveragepointsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/pd4_job_description-1.pdf  All positions are full time for a duration of up to 3.5 years, salary group E 13 TV-L Application deadline for all positions: 10th March, with an expected start date of 1st July, or as soon as possible thereafter.