Call for applications: PhD scholarship for 2026  Deadline for applications: 16 June 2025 Context Achieving a just and sustainable future requires deep, transformative change—but the pathways and actions to enable such change remain unclear. As global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, food and water insecurity, growing socioeconomic inequality and political instability intensify, the need for innovative approaches to governing both societies and environments becomes increasingly urgent. Among emerging technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) stands out as a transformative new development. While it holds potential to support sustainability transformations, it also poses significant risks. Since the launch of ChatGPT in [...]

The Centre for Sustainability Transitions seeks motivated individuals interested to pursue a PhD linked to BII4Africa project, who have a keen interest in biodiversity, an interest to integrate across the social and natural sciences, and who enjoy collaboration and working in teams.

The 7th Garden Route Interface and Networking (GRIN) Symposium will take place from 30 September to 2 October 2025 (3 full days) at Villa Castollini, Knysna, South Africa. This symposium-style meeting aims to provide a space for sharing experiences and the latest insights from around the world related to the management, research and sustainability of linked human-nature, or social-ecological, systems. We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract for GRIN 2025. Please see the GRIN website for this year’s meeting themes, presentation types, and our abstract template, along with some other information. At GRIN we have a plenary [...]

The School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan is seeking applicants for a limited term appointment as a Visiting Professor in the field of Sustainability and Development. We seek applicants with a strong interest in teaching primarily MS students, and prefer candidates who have experience in teaching already.

It gives us great pleasure to announce that the PECS 3 conference will take place from 12 August – 15 August 2024, in Montreal, Canada. Calls for organised oral symposia and innovative sessions are now open, until 15 November 2023 and can be submitted on the conference webpage.  Call for contributed abstracts will open in November.

This free, open-access course aims to boost the understanding and capacity of students, researchers and practitioners to engage in meaningful and effective landscape collaboration processes.

The 5th Garden Route Interface and Networking (GRIN) Meeting will take place from 10-12 October 2023 (3 full days) at The Moorings, Knysna, South Africa. This is the final call for abstracts, which are due by 30 June 2023.