Postdoctoral Researcher: Environmental Social Sciences
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher (Environmental Social Sciences), for a period of two years, starting 3.8.2026 or as agreed (4.1.2027 at latest). The fixed-term position is for a project.
The position is allocated to the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy and to the profiling area of planetary well-being and sustainability transitions. The position links to a new 5-year ERC StG project ‘Environmental Landscape Ethics: A Theory of Cohabitability’ (link).
Research in this project consists of innovative interdisciplinary research that seeks to transform the ethics of land use and urban and landscape planning, and create new philosophical and social scientific frameworks and knowledge to approach ethically responsible cohabitation and multispecies sustainability in human-managed environments.