Postdoctoral Researcher and Doctoral Researcher, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and aquatic restoration in the Nordic and Arctic regions
About this role
Faculty of Humanities, History, Culture and Communication Studies
The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.
We are looking to hire highly motivated
Postdoctoral Researcher and Doctoral Researcher
to join the Department of Anthropology, in the History, Culture and Communications Unit at the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Oulu.
The hired researchers will develop and implement their own research plan in the specified research area and work in collaboration with Dr. Jose A. Cañada and their research team under the programme "Safeguarding biodiversity through interdisciplinary research on habitat restoration" (SAFIRE).
Aquatic ecosystems are a central element in how humans are addressing their own survival. Lakes, rivers, wetlands, seas, oceans and melting ice caps are central elements of the ongoing ecological crisis linked to human modes of economic and capitalist production. Discourses and practices of ecological repair coexist with refusals to give up on ideals of economic growth, often featuring techno-optimist visions to develop possible solutions. In this context, restoration of aquatic habitats has emerged with force as a dominant strategy for environmental care, with links to more traditional conservation approaches or more intrusive geoengineering initiatives.
Researchers hired in this position will have the opportunity to develop their own research plan to study how the relation between humans and their surrounding environments is shifting as the result of alterations to aquatic ecologies in the Arctic and Nordic regions, with a special focus on knowle