Vacancies

PhD student in Sustainability Science

We are recruiting a PhD student for the Keystone Dialogue project. This is a scientific endeavor led by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The project aims to identify, and work with, global lindustry eaders with a disproportionate ability to stimulate large scale change towards ecosystem stewardship. Only a person who will be or has already been admitted to a third-cycle programme may be appointed to a doctoral studentship.

Application deadline is 30 January 2020.

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PhD student in research on land-atmosphere interactions in Africa

This PhD student position is funded by the Swedish Research Council FORMAS in the project “Governing atmospheric water flows: integrative forest-agriculture solutions for securing rainfall for crop production in Africa”. The research project explores how regional rainfall can be nurtured through sensible land management in Africa, where a large share of the population is directly dependent on rainfall for livelihoods. Only a person who will be or has already been admitted to a third-cycle programme may be appointed to a doctoral studentship.

Application deadline is 30 January 2020.

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Postdoctoral Fellow in how to reinforce nature based solutions through smart technology

The SMARTer Greener Cities project aims to develop and test novel tools and processes for explicitly converging social, ecological, and technological approaches. The convergence of these approaches will promote resilient and equitable urban futures in Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and generate new opportunities for transformative change and increasing resilience to extreme events in other Nordic cities. The post-doc will focus on the ecological-technological (E-T) couplings in a systems framing of how to advance a SMARTer and Greener City for climate resilience. The postdoc will work primarily on the Stockholm case will focus on how technology can be used to better understand the “voices of nature”.

Application deadline: 30 January 2020.

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Traineeship/internships

Current traineeship/interships positions are announced below. If you would like to do a traineeship but there are no announcements, please contact the person(s) that you are interested in working with directly.

We recommend you provide the following information:

- What topics and activities you are interested in

- What relevant skills and/ or experience you have

- What time period you would like to do your traineeship

- CV - not needed, but it allows a potential supervisor to see your skills and experience and how these can contribute to ongoing activities.