Postdoc Fellow: Arctic River Ethnography & Climate Change

UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Tromsø; On-site; NOK 480,000 - 640,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Good career opportunities

Flexible working hours

Pension scheme through the state

Interdisciplinary research environment

Collaborative, inclusive working space

Job summary

UiT The Arctic University of Norway invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Ethnography and River Biographies amid climate change. The project is part of RiverPulse, an ERC Advanced Grant exploring how Arctic salmon rivers reconfigure human–nature relations amid climate change.

The role spans fieldwork, archival research and community engagement across three river regions, with travel to field sites.

Qualifications

• A PhD in anthropology, human geography, sociology, discourse studies, critical sociolinguistics, environmental humanities or another field relevant to ethnographic and qualitative research.
• Experience in qualitative fieldwork and demonstrated expertise in ethnographic, narrative, discursive, biographical or closely related qualitative research.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Working proficiency in at least one language used in a RiverPulse field community.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and historical research in one RiverPulse river region.
• Work with ethnographic, narrative, oral-historical and archival materials to develop a longitudinal river biography that traces environmental change and the historical, colonial and political-economic processes through which river relations have been configured.
• Analyse how changing river conditions are interpreted, negotiated and contested in everyday practices and understandings.
• Link ethnographic research with RiverPulse citizen science, including how community members observe, document and interpret environmental changes in their rivers.
• Develop your own analyses and publications within this position’s research area and contribute to comparative RiverPulse outputs.

Skills

English proficiency

Qualitative fieldwork

Education

PhD in anthropology or related field

Job description

UiT The Arctic University of Norway invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Ethnography and River Biographies amid climate change. The project is part of RiverPulse, an ERC Advanced Grant exploring how Arctic salmon rivers reconfigure human–nature relations amid climate change.

The role spans fieldwork, archival research and community engagement across three river regions, with travel to field sites.