Junior Researcher (PhD) in Sámi and Indigenous Studies in the Sustainable Naturecultures Research Community

We invite applications for a fully funded PhD position for three years focusing on Sámi and Indigenous studies. The position is located in a multidisciplinary and international research environment that centres around Sámi knowledge systems, societal structures, political practices, and land and environmental relations. Moreover, the research community places the decolonisation of science and knowledge production at the core of its work, alongside the aim of advancing more sustainable and just futures.

Research Focus

The doctoral research must relate to Sámi society, the Sámi as an Indigenous people or Indigenous peoples more broadly within national or international systems with a Sámi focus. We welcome proposals that draw on Sámi and Indigenous ontologies, Indigenous methodologies, community-based research practices and approaches that challenge dominant Western knowledge structures.

Possible themes include, but are not limited to the following:

social and societal structures within Sámi society

political structures and activity, governance, and decision-making systems of the Sámi

practices, traditions, and land-based livelihoods

Sámi concepts, worldviews, and relational ontologies and epistemologies

human-environment relationality and relations to animals and other more-than-human beings

questions of justice, responsibility and multispecies relations

sustainability, Indigenous futures and community resilience

decolonisation, Indigenous data sovereignty and transformations of knowledge systems

The research may involve ethnographic, community-based, participatory, conceptual, textual, policy-oriented, legal or multimethod approaches. We especially value research that strengthens Indigenous-led perspectives and contributes to the decolonisation of science and to more sustainable and just futures.

Your tasks

conducting doctoral research aligned with the themes of Sámi and Indigenous studies and sustainable naturecultures

completing the studies and credits require