School of Cultural Studies and Social Sciences bei Universität Osnabrück

The DFG-funded Research Training Group “Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems” (ECORISK) deals with the causes of ecological regime shifts and their potential consequences in social-ecological systems in an interdisciplinary approach. ECORISK aims at training a new generation of innovative scientists capable of dealing with complex sustainability challenges. It brings together perspectives from behavioral economics, ecological modeling, environmental systems science, geography, geoinformatics, political science, and sociology. ECORISK is located at Osnabrück University, which is renowned for its outstanding interdisciplinary research and embedded in a city with an excellent quality of life.

In the sociological subproject ›B4 Farm Handovers: Understanding Non-Adaption to Systemic Risks‹ at the Institute of Social Sciences in the School of Cultural and Social Sciences, a position as

Research Assistant / PhD Candidate (m/f/d)
(Pay grade 13 TV-L, 75%)

is to be filled on a fixed-term basis until September 30, 2027, starting on October 1, 2024.

Your Duties:

• Sociological research in the field of agriculture
• Sociological case studies on farm transfers based on qualitative interviews (the continuation of intensive agriculture as cases of non-adaption to systemic risks), which also forms the basis for your own academic qualification in the form of a doctoral degree
• Participation in and contribution to the events of the Research Training Group

Requirements:

• Very good completed academic degree in the field of sociology or a related discipline
• Strong interest in economic sociology and sociology of work
• Strong interest in interdisciplinary perspectives on questions of ecological regime shifts and systemic risks in social-ecological systems
• Very good written and spoken German and English language skills

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience in interdisciplinary and international collaboration
• Experience in qualitative methods of social research

We offer:

• Participation in an exciting and highly topical research project
• A structured doctoral program at Osnabrück University
• Opportunities to acquire relevant research experience
• Collegial collaboration in an interdisciplinary, international, and diversity-oriented team that values equity
• Tailored training opportunities
• Opportunities for partial remote work and flexible working hours

Osnabrück University is a family-friendly university and is committed to helping working/studying parents balance their family and working lives.

Osnabrück University seeks to guarantee equality of opportunity for women and men and strives to correct any gender imbalance in its schools and departments.

If two candidates are equally qualified, preference will be given to the candidate with disability status.

Please send applications, including a maximum two-page motivation letter for the advertised position, a curriculum vitae (CV) (possibly including a list of publications), transcripts of previous academic degrees (BA/MA, including Transcripts of Records), and the name and email address of a potential reference, in electronic form as a single PDF file via email by June 22, 2024, to: ecorisk@uos.de.

For questions regarding this job advertisement, please also contact the subproject leader Prof. Dr. Hajo Holst (haholst@uni-osnabrueck.de).

Further information about this subproject and the Research Training Group can be found at: www2.uni-osnabrueck.de/ecorisk.