Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Social Sciences
About this role
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä is seeking to recruit:
a Postdoctoral Researcher (Environmental Social Sciences), for a period of two years, starting 3.8.2026 or as agreed (4.1.2027 at latest). The fixed-term position is for a project.
The position is allocated to the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy and to the profiling area of planetary well-being and sustainability transitions. The position links to a new 5-year ERC StG project 'Environmental Landscape Ethics: A Theory of Cohabitability' (link).
Research in this project consists of innovative interdisciplinary research that seeks to transform the ethics of land use and urban and landscape planning, and create new philosophical and social scientific frameworks and knowledge to approach ethically responsible cohabitation and multispecies sustainability in human-managed environments.
Duties and requirements
The main task of the to-be-recruited researcher is to conduct research in the ERC project, both individually and in close collaboration with other team members. The opened position is responsible for designing and implementing empirical work on cohabitability in WP4 with comparative case studies on the cohabitability of different urban and/or rural contexts and factors that drive or impede cohabitability.
The applicant is expected to have a Ph.D. degree in social sciences, human geography, or other relevant field. (In case you are interested yet uncertain about the suitability of your degree, please don't hesitate to ask more.) The position necessitates strong knowledge from empirical research in environmental social sciences and skills for interdisciplinary research. Capacities for both independent and collaborative research are required.
Besides research, we expect the chosen candidate to contribute as a Wisdom Fellow to the building and development of the cross-disciplinary JYU.Wisdom sustainability research community. The primary place for commun