We College Scholarship Search encourage applications for up to two PhD student positions in Sustainability Knowledge within the frame of the interdisciplinary research programme LUCID at Lund University.
LUCID is a Linnaeus programme sponsored by The Swedish Research Council Formas for the cycle 2008-2018. LUCID is coordinated by the faculty-independent Centre for Sustainability Studies at Lund University (LUCSUS). Linnaeus Grants are awarded to exceptionally strong environments performing research of the highest global quality and aiming at innovative research. LUCID is a consortium comprising the following disciplines: human ecology, human geography, philosophy, physical geography, political knowledge, sociology of law and sustainability knowledge.
LUCID College Scholarship Search aims at making completely new and unique synergies across natural and social sciences in order to develop new integrated theories and methods for addressing complex sustainability issues. The research is anchored in natural scientific understanding, social knowledge theories and ethical considerations. Four global challenges are in focus: climate change, water shortage, loss of biodiversity and land use change. Two scientific approaches, problem solving and critical research, will be combined to know how society handles and should handle these global challenges. The College Scholarship Search research will offer theoretical, methodological and practical contributions to the broad and emerging field of sustainability knowledge.
We are now seeking up to two PhD candidates in Sustainability Knowledge.
Overview
- Type of employment: Limit of tenure, 4 year
- Extent: 100 %
- Place: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS, Lund
- First day of employment: 2011-05-15
- Authoritative Records Number: PEPA 2011/134
Job assignments
The doctoral College Scholarship Search candidate programme amounts to 240 credits (which is equivalent to four years of study full time). It formally ends with the doctoral candidate publicly defending his/her printed doctoral thesis. The holder of a postgraduate position has as his/her fundamental obligation to successfully fulfil his/her third cycle education ending with a PhD degree. Regulations concerning appointment as a full time postgraduate student can be found in the Higher Education Ordinance Chapter 5, 1-7 §§.
The holder of a postgraduate position is probable to participate actively in the research and teaching environment of LUCSUS. He/she will normally perform departmental duties, above all teaching, amounting to in this area 20 per cent of full time.
The College Scholarship Search position is placed at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS, but the employee will actively participate in the activities of the Research School at the Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability, LUCID (also located in Geocentrum I): http://www.lucid.lu.se/html/phd_programme.aspx
More information on the PhD programme at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies is available at http://www.lucsus.lu.se/html/lucsus_research_school.aspx
Deadline Application : April, 15th 2011
