Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, is a Swiss- based and internationally networked aquatic research institute within the ETH domain (Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology). It is committed to the ecologically, economically and socially responsible management of water resources and aquatic ecosystems. The Department of Environmental Social Sciences (ESS) is offering a PhD position in Policy Analysis with a focus on Water Politics in Switzerland The research project “Overlapping Subsystems: Identification and Integration of Fragmented Games in Swiss Water Politics” (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) aims at identifying the policy games political actors are involved in and analyzing how these games are interrelated. With the increasing complexity of modern political problems, actors simultaneously deal with several issues at different stages and levels of decision making, and across varying arenas. The project provides a novel, bottom-up approach to the identification of overlapping policy games, and, more generally, to the analysis of political decision-making. It relies on an innovative research design based on snowball sampling and stakeholder interviews as well as new methods of social network analysis. The project deals with water politics in Switzerland. It will be carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) in Dübendorf in collaboration with the University of Bern, which is the PhD-granting institution. For this project, we are looking for a PhD candidate interested in the politics of the water sector in Switzerland. The prospective PhD candidate is supposed to write a PhD thesis in the context of the project. Based on the identification of key actors in the political, judicial, media, and scientific arenas, the PhD student will conduct interviews with actors related to Swiss water politics and gather data on actors’ preferences, activities, and allies and opponents. The PhD candidate will be part of the research group “Environmental Policy and Governance”, which is embedded in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at Eawag and the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern. If you are excited about working on this timely and challenging research topic and with the excellent research facilities Eawag has to offer, we are looking forward to hearing from you. The duration of the position will be three years with a preferred start in July 2015. Candidates should hold an MA in political science or public policy. Specific knowledge on public policy analysis as well as experience with social network analysis, interview data collection, or survey design are assets. Applicants should be interested in water politics or environmental politics more generally. Fluency in English and either German or French is required, skills in a third language (either French or German) are an asset. Questions about the position can be addressed to Dr. Manuel Fischer, Eawag. E-Mail: manuel.fischer@eawag.ch. Phone: +41 58 765 5676 (no applications). The deadline for applications is 30 April 2015. Applications should include a cover letter, CV, a writing sample (e.g., a published article, chapter from MA thesis, seminar paper) and two letters of recommendation. Please send your application through this webpage, any other way of applying will not be considered. Please click on the link below, this will take you directly to the application form. https://apply.refline.ch/673277/0342/pub/1/index.html