UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI: Doctoral Researcher, Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Training Pilot

Doctoral Researchers for Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Training Pilot (SusTra)

The College of Helsinki is at present searching for to fill 236 three-year positions for doctoral researchers. These positions are a part of a nationwide initiative in doctoral education and can be found inside varied doctoral education pilots. The appointments are set to start on August 1, 2024, or on January 1, 2025.

As a doctoral researcher on the College of Helsinki, you’ll conduct your doctoral research as a part of a world scientific community beneath the steering of prime researchers in your area.

Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Training Pilot (SusTra) produces details about social, cultural, organizational and individual-level change processes when concentrating on a sustainable and simply society with out exceeding the planetary boundaries. Advanced social-ecological challenges akin to local weather change, biodiversity loss and world social inequality require in-depth sustainability transformations, throughout all sectors, scales and actors.

This may embrace new approaches for i) rethinking the state, akin to cross-sectoral governance approaches for advancing sustainability transformations; ii) rethinking the commons, akin to altering the best way which individuals perceive, govern, and use bodily, cultural, and mental commons; iii) rethinking justice together with altering the relationships between folks and place, and the vary of data and experiences of environmental change; iv) rethinking effectivity together with discovering methods to honest distribution of products, and v) rethinking enterprise and economic system.

On the College of Helsinki we’re searching for two doctoral researcher for a 3-year doctoral place within the area of Environmental Humanities. The chosen individuals will work on one of many following themes: Important approaches to World Sustainability Framework, Biocultural variety within the Arctic, Equality and inclusion of Indigenous and minority views to sustainability transition.

Appropriate candidates have a background in cultural and areal research, environmental humanities or sociolegal research.

We’re additionally searching for two doctoral researchers within the fields of participatory mapping and/or eco-acoustics, every to be employed for a 3-year doctoral place. The chosen individuals will work on one of many following themes: i) Geodesign – growing and scaling participatory strategies for delivering multi-species transitions and ii) Listening in – creating representations of non-human perceptions of landscapes to help sustainability transformations. Appropriate candidates can have a background in spatial sciences, human geography, soundscape ecology and/or environmental social sciences.

{Qualifications} and Obligations

We’re searching for motivated candidates who’ve demonstrated their capabilities in earlier research and are dedicated to finishing their doctoral diploma throughout the focused three-year timeframe. Your duties will embrace conducting research to your dissertation and finishing the doctoral diploma in line with the curriculum of the doctoral program. Moreover, chances are you’ll be concerned in teaching and different duties, accounting for as much as 5% of your annual working time.

We Supply:

• Alternative to work in a world, multidisciplinary research community
• Excessive-quality research infrastructure and help providers
• Complete help for initiating and advancing your research
• Aggressive wage (beginning wage sometimes 2,400–2,800 €/month, relying on the appointees’ {qualifications} and expertise), together with advantages akin to healthcare and different worker advantages
• Help with integration into Finland and the College of Helsinki community

Utility Course of and Choice Standards

You could apply via two pathways:

1. Candidates making use of via the primary pathway are required to have:

   • A research plan drawn up in collaboration with the supervisor 
   • Supervision plan drawn up in collaboration with the supervisor 
   • A research proper for a doctoral diploma awarded no sooner than 1.11.2023 OR a stage of research that permits the candidate to be awarded a proper to check for a doctoral diploma in the course of the probationary interval, i.e. inside six months of the beginning of employment 

2. Candidates making use of via the second pathway are required to have:

   • An instance of a research thought and a associated idea paper. Candidates who progress to the following stage of the decision can have the chance to apply for a supervisor and full their utility with an precise research and supervision plan at a later stage. 
   • A stage of research that permits the candidate to be awarded a proper to check for a doctoral diploma in the course of the probationary interval, i.e. inside six months from the beginning of employment 

The choice course of will take into account:

• Suitability of the research plan to the chosen pilot challenge
• High quality and feasibility of the research plan throughout the three-year timeframe
• Deliberate connections to the skilled world and the importance of the place for the applicant’s profession after finishing the doctoral diploma
• Feasibility of finishing the dissertation inside three years, as demonstrated within the supervision plan

Moreover, we anticipate from all candidates:

• Dedication to a few years of intensive and full-time work
• Sturdy motivation and former proof of the flexibility to attain outcomes and full the challenge on schedule
• Creativity together with the flexibility for analytical and conceptual pondering, a decided and unbiased work method, collegiality, the flexibility to have interaction in constructive collaboration with others, and encourage others
• Fluent oral proficiency in English and the flexibility to jot down scientific texts in English
• The appointed doctoral researchers are anticipated to reside in Finland, although momentary research visits overseas are potential. If relocating, employment can solely start after arriving in Finland.

As well as, there could also be consortium-specific necessities or specs, that are listed within the utility directions on-line.

Utility Directions and Deadline

Please evaluation the utility directions fastidiously and submit your utility no later than April 22.

Please notice that as a part of the choice course of, we make the most of a web based competency evaluation for all eligible candidates. Please make sure that you allocate roughly one hour between April 27 and April 29 (EEST) to finish the take a look at.

The College of Helsinki is dedicated to selling equality, variety, and inclusion in all elements of our operations. We encourage candidates from various backgrounds, together with completely different genders, linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and minority teams.