MSCA-PF: Joint application at the University of Granada. Department of Environmental Humanities[...]

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Descripción de la vacante

The University of Granada welcomes postdoctoral candidates for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2025. Applicants should prepare necessary documents and apply to Professor Antonio Ortega Santos. This opportunity is aimed at those focusing on socio-environmental issues and aims to develop solutions to the challenges posed by climate change.

Formación

• Postdoctoral candidates interested in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.
• Candidates must comply with the Mobility Rule.

Responsabilidades

• Develop socio-environmental solutions to climate change challenges.
• Conduct research within the Environmental Humanities Observatory.

Descripción del empleo

Organisation / Company University of Granada Department International Research Projects Office Laboratory Environmental Humanities Observatory Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Professor Antonio Ortega Santos , from the Department ofEnvironmental Humanities Observatory at the University of Granada, welcomes postdoctoral candidatesinterested inapplying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF)in 2025 at this University. Please note that applicants must comply with the Mobility Rule (for more information about the 2025 call, please consult this link .

Brief description of the institution:

The University of Granada (UGR), founded in 1531, is one of the largest and most important universities in Spain. With amost 54,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and more than 6,000 members of staff, the UGR offers over 90 undergraduate degrees, 157 master’s degrees (7 of which are international double degrees) and 28 doctoral programmes via its 124 departments and nearly 50 centers. Accordingly, the UGR offers one of the most extensive and diverse ranges of higher education programmes in Spain.

The UGR has been awarded with the "Human Resources Excellence in Research (HRS4R)", which reflects the institution’s commitment to continuously improve its human resource policies in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The UGR is also internationally renowned for its excellence in diverse research fields and ranked among the top Spanish universities in a variety of ranking criteria, such as national R&D projects, fellowships awarded, publications, and international funding.

The UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the Shanghai Top 500 ranking - Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The 2024 edition of the ARWU places the UGR in 301-400th position in the world and as the 3-8 highest ranked University in Spain ( http://sl.ugr.es/0dwJ ) , reaffirming its position as an institution at the forefront of national and international research. From the perspective of specialist areas in the ARWU rankings ( http://sl.ugr.es/0bSp ) , the UGR is outstanding in Mathematics and Dentistry & Oral Sciences Food Science & Technology (both ranked between 51th-75th position), Computer Science & Engineering, Food Science & Technology and Hospitality & Tourism Management (all three ranked between 76-100th position), and in the areas of Statistics and Psychology (both ranked between 101-150th position). A little lower in the ranking, the UGR also stands out in the areas of Business Administration and Earth Sciences, in which the UGR is positioned in the 151-200th position.

Additionally, the UGR counts with 3 researchers at the top of the Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) list ( http://sl.ugr.es/0cmD ), most of them related to the Computer Science scientific area. It is also well recognised for its presence in the top 200 Universities in Europe ( http://sl.ugr.es/0a6i ) at 43th place .

Internationally, the University of Granada is firmly committed to its participation in the calls of the Framework Programme of the European Union. For the duration of the prevoius Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, the UGR obtained a totalof123 projectswith a total funding of around€30 million.For the current Framework Programme, Horizon Europe, the UGR has obtained108 projects, so far, with a total funding of€33 million.

Brief description of the Centre/Research Group:

Environmental Humanities Observatory (hosted by Peace and Conflicts Institute) resulted from previous Research Group STAND (South Training Action Network of Decoloniality) is a Consolidated Research Group with the highest score within the Andalusian Scientific Research System and Partner Institution of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). It is a group with more than 15 years of experience focused on work related to socio-environmental issues, leading international projects in EU calls (Memola Project), H2020 and national Research and Development projects. It is a Research Group with collaborating researchers in National Centres (ICREA, ICTA, etc.) and International Centres (Georgetown University-USA, UNAM- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad de Quilmes -Argentina, Fundación Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, La Habana Cuba, UNCUYO IANIGLA Argentina, UNICAUCA-Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Chile, Centro de Historia Universidad de Lisboa -Portugal, Universidad Isla Reunión-France).

This research group has developed projects that focus on finding socio-environmental solutions to problems arising from the current development model, designing responses to problems arising from climate change: water and energy scarcity, design of community processes of natural resource management for socio-food security and interference in national and international public policies on territorial sustainability of terrestrial and oceanic systems.

In the field of research, Environmental Humanities Observatory focuses on working on a series of solutions and responses to the challenges posed by climate change and socio-environmental vulnerability. To this end, we propose to work on solutions to issues related to socio-environmental vulnerability in territories marked by the fragility of their ecosystems in the face of the impact of the energy and material extractivist model. To this end, we use MESMIS and Social Metabolism as methodological research tools that we apply in territories of the Global South to assess the sustainability of landscapes and territories in the fight against the negative externalities of existing development models.
To this end, we propose Socio-environmental Vulnerability to Climate Change as an emerging line of work that can bring together interdisciplinary CVs from the fields of Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology and other fields of social and environmental sciences.

This field of research can be deployed in these axes of work:

1. Climate Change and Socio-environmental Resilience: Responses from Degrowth as Socio-energetic Transition towards another better world.

2. Climate Change and Socio-environmental Resilience: Agro-ecologies and Food Sovereignty.

3. Climate Change and Socio-environmental Resilience: Oceans and Seas as Biocultural Repositories.

4. Climate Change and Socio-Environmental Resilience: Digital Environmental Humanities to create a Citizen Science.

Research Area:

• Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
• Environment and Geosciences (ENV)

For a correct evaluation of your candidature, please send the documents below to Professor Antonio Ortega Santos ([e-mail] ):