Creative Carbon Scotland invites applications for a Green Arts and Edinburgh Festivals Officer. The post will lead the Green Arts Initiative in helping cultural organisations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and will support the Edinburgh Festivals in their ambitious strategy to reach net-zero and make Edinburgh the world’s leading green festival city.
The Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University, in collaboration with the Carlsberg Foundation, has an opportunity for a fully funded PhD position for ethnographic research on consumer plastic use and disposal in India. The PhD fellowship will be available as of...
The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast invites applications for a fully-funded PhD Studentship on Energy Citizens Before Energy Citizenship: Energy, Culture and Place-Based Identities in the UK and Ireland, 1950s–1990s.
The Department of Environment and Sustainability invites applications from highly motivated social science PhDs with an interest in the social dimensions of emerging approaches to confront climate change.
The successful applicant will join PI Dr. Holly Buck and the research team to conduct research on how communities in different regions of the US appraise carbon removal’s potential benefits, risks, and feasibility. We’re also exploring how publics want to engage with the research and development of carbon removal and other technologies to reduce climate risk.
The Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program is a competitive initiative for international undergraduates from the following countries and regions: Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Taiwan, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States. From May to October of each year, top-ranked applicants participate in a 12-week research internship under the supervision of Canadian university faculty members in a variety of academic disciplines, from science, engineering, and mathematics to the humanities and social sciences.
The Scottish Government has a range of responsibilities that include: the economy, education, health, justice, rural affairs, housing, environment, equal opportunities, consumer advocacy and advice, transport and taxation.
Government social science research aims to provide high quality evidence and advice for Ministers and Scottish Government officials to inform policy development, implementation and evaluation. Analysts in government help generate new ideas and open debate, challenge assumptions, beliefs and attitudes, test policy ideas and develop a deeper understanding of issues as they affect Scotland.
Beyond oil from below: creative practice and urban activism as catalysts for the transition towards post-anthropocene cities.
Scholarly work exploring the cultural dimensions of oil capitalism in the humanities is a very recent development. The emergence of the Energy Humanities coincides with the crises of the oil economy of the late twentieth century, which generated new interests in understanding how oil became the world’s dominant energy commodity in order to develop critical analysis of the symbolic and cultural forms of oil capitalism.
This is a full-time contract for 18 months, subject to a six-month review, with a strong possibility to extend.
Apply by 9am June 28.
UKRI are looking to fund feasibility projects: of two years’ durationaimed at high-risk discovery research to enable decarbonisation of the UK economyto facilitate a sustainable transition to a net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions future. For the current call,...
The British Academy are inviting applications from early career researchers across the humanities and social sciences to participate in a Knowledge Frontiers symposium on the theme of "Just Transitions" to be held in November and December 2021 in partnership with the...