The Doctoral Programme ‘Climate Change – Uncertainties, Thresholds and Coping Strategies’ was approved by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF)! Funded largely by the Austrian Science Foundation, the DK is a multi-year interdisciplinary doctoral college (potentially up to 12 years, with 3 batches of candidates), and will begin operations in October 2014. As a result, there are exciting employment opportunities for outstanding PhD students. There is also one post at the postdoctoral level. The call for applications and information on how to apply can be found here: https://dk-climate-change.uni-graz.at/en/call-for-applications/ There are sixteen fully-funded PhD student positions, with contracts starting as of October [...]

Are you an up-and-coming researcher with original ideas and a strong focus on sustainable development? Does your research have the potential to change the world? Rise to the challenge and convince our high-calibre expert jury to become one of the 25 Green Talents 2014! More information on WWW.GREENTALENTS.DE PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ONLINE APPLICATION BY 16 JUNE 2014, 12 P.M. CET. Download the complete flyer here.

Colloquium explores the role of anticipation as an alternative way to engage with the future and complex problems. Current economic and political crises are characterized by unsolvable, complex problems. In the effort to try and come up with workable solutions to these crises, the notion of anticipation is increasingly at the heart of urgent contemporary debates. At the recent Anticipation: Complexity And The Future colloquium jointly organised by the Centre for Studies in Complexity (CSC) and the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), in Stellenbosch, South Africa, presenters explored how the notion of anticipation is coming to the foreground as an emerging field of study. From the [...]

The Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) research program is inviting applications for projects that will deliver “blue skies” research providing innovative, new approaches that enhance the understanding of the way in which ecosystem services contribute to the sustainable alleviation of poverty for poor people (especially those living in low-income countries). The Major objective of the grant is to enhance ESPA’s academic and development impact by changing the way that the world views the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. ESPA is a 7-year interdisciplinary research program that aims to deliver high-quality, cutting-edge research that will improve understanding of [...]

Passionate about your science and want to tell the world all about it? Interested in learning how to write about your research for a popular audience and getting published in the Mail & Guardian? We are looking for master's and doctoral candidates at South African universities who want to work with the M&G's science editor, Sarah Wild, to have their writing published in a collection of South Africa's best postgraduate science writing. From quantum biology to cosmology, we will help you to tell the country about your research.   Need some help getting started? The M&G will be running a series of [...]

The 11th Literature & Ecology Colloquium will take place on 11 and 12 September at Oxwagon Lodge, Hartbeespoort Dam. This year, we invite papers exploring the relationship between words and our inland waters: rivers, dams, rains, pipleines, taps, irrigation schemes, floods, droughts. While the colloquium particularly encourages papers on southern African literatures, explorations of other areas of the world are also welcome. Comparative perspectives can be especially enlightening. Suggested, but by no means exhaustive, topics might include the following: ۞Waters in indigenous oral literatures (eg. rains in San cosmology; spiritual significance of pools in Xhosa writing) ۞ Rivers as barriers/goals/conveyances in [...]

Doctoral studentship in Sustainability Science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Reference number SU FV-0892-14. Deadline for applications: May 2, 2014. Project title: Identifying craftsmanship and local ecological knowledge in coastal fisheries for sustainable use of sustainable management of Nordic sea- and landscapes.  Project description Soon Nordic coastal fishing will be a memory. During the last century the total number of fishers in nordic countries diminished dramatically. This decline has been particularly pronouced among coastal fishers. The loss of cultural capital that Nordic coastal fishers represent, i.e. ´their working knowledge´ and skills, implies a tremendous setback for sustainable management of coastal sea- [...]

The Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme in the Sciences is one of the principal programmes of the Claude Leon Foundation. The Trustees of the Foundation seek to upgrade research at South African universities in the faculties of Science, Engineering and Medical Sciences by making awards to both South African and foreign postdoctoral scientists, who should increase the volume and quality of research output, transfer technical skills, and generally enhance the research culture. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis, taking the applicants’ academic achievements and potential as researchers into account. Application deadline for 2015 postdoctoral fellowships: 31 May 2014.   For more information [...]

Date: March 18th, 2014 Venue: STIAS | Wallenberg Centre | 10 Marais Rd | Stellenbosch | South Africa Registration fee: R 400 per person The notion of anticipation is increasingly at the heart of urgent contemporary debates, from climate change to economic crisis. As societies become less confident that traditional methods will provide effective models by which to understand and engage with complexity, anticipation is coming to the foreground as an emerging field of study that is influencing a wide variety of disciplines. In this colloquium we will explore how complex systems can be understood by developing models of anticipation [...]

The Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED), in McGill University'’s Faculty of Engineering, is seeking a scholar to spend six months in residence to participate in collaborative and interdisciplinary research and teaching. TISED’s 2014-2015 Scholars-in-Residence program supports scholars and experts to conduct collaborative research with an emphasis on advancing sustainability in one of the following areas: (a) energy resources and efficiency; (b) urban development; and (c) urban transportation. The selected Scholar would be engaged in policy-focused research that will enable significant advances in sustainability in the above areas. Relevant information and application details are available here: https://www.mcgill.ca/tised/activities/scholar-residence