OPPORTUNITY at the CST: PhD scholarship – The use and potential for AI in transformations to sustainability

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 [...]

2025-06-03T15:47:21+02:00May 30th, 2025|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|

OPPORTUNITY at the CST: PhD bursary – Biodiversity Intactness of sub-Saharan Africa

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.

2025-06-03T15:47:42+02:00May 30th, 2025|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|

GRIN 2025: 3rd announcement and call for abstracts

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 [...]

2025-05-12T15:02:09+02:00May 12th, 2025|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|

Job advert: Visiting Professor in Sustainability and Development

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.

2024-06-19T13:54:34+02:00April 16th, 2024|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|

Call for applications: Two postdoc positions available at Rhodes University, South Africa

Post-doc positions available with the SARChI Chair research group on “Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods” at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa. The DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in “Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods” in the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University focuses on generating interdisciplinary understandings of natural biological resources and their roles in rural and urban livelihoods for poverty alleviation, human wellbeing and resilience. This includes the ecological, economic and social dimensions of key species, land and ecosystem services use in both rural and urban social-ecological systems. The [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:34+02:00November 22nd, 2023|Eastern Cape & Drakensberg, SAPECS News|

PECS-3: Pathways to sustainability

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.

2024-06-19T13:54:34+02:00October 3rd, 2023|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|
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