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Available position: Apprentice Landscape Mobiliser position with Living Lands
The vision of Living Lands is ‘Collaborations working on living landscapes’, which encapsulates the building of relationships amongst landscape stakeholders, through a process of social learning, that ultimately leads to collective action towards a healthy and resilient landscape. This is done by means of employing a social change approach as a way to engage stakeholders. Research and trial experimentation form part of the knowledge created for supporting stakeholders’ decision making. They are currently a team of 20, with offices in the Baviaanskloof, Langkloof and Cape Town. They are [...]
Call for research proposals
BIG DATA AND TRANSBOUNDARY WATER COLLABORATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA APPLY FOR A SADC-WIDE RESEARCH FUNDING CALL! This is an announcement of a special research funding call that has been released and is live on the WRC website. Attached are the Terms of Reference and Proposal Application template that you may use to complete to respond to the call. Applications are open until: 30 September 2018 For more general programme enquiries please contact: Clara Bocchino - clara.bocchino@gmail.com OR Shanna Nienaber - shannan@wrc.org.za For technical ToR enquiries please contact: Shafick Adams - shaficka@wrc.org.za Please [...]
Call for Research Chair: Coupled Human-Natural Systems (CHANS) in Montane Environments as SES
The South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) and the Afromontane Research Unit (ARU; based on the Qwaqwa Campus of the University of the Free State) are calling for comprehensive expressions of interest from suitable candidates for a National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Chair in Coupled Human-Natural Systems in Montane Environments. The focus of the Chair will be to expand/refine the existing observatory protocol and research activities to develop a pragmatic, theoretical, and operational social-ecological framework that integrates multi-scale ecological, social observations and other sources of knowledge, and engages [...]
Post-doc position: Exploring Food Systems Transformations in Africa’s Rapidly Changing Cities
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: EXPLORING FOOD SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATIONS IN AFRICA’S RAPIDLY CHANGING CITIES Location: South Africa and the Netherlands Start: September 2018 The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on African city food systems, beginning early September 2018. The postdoc will be based in South Africa for approximately 75% of the time and work as a guest researcher in the Netherlands for the remaining time. The research forms part of an international collaborative project under the auspices of LEAP-Agri [...]
Postdoctoral fellow position available at Dartmouth College
The Environmental Studies Program (ENVS) at Dartmouth College is looking for a postdoctoral fellow. ENVS is a diverse community of scholars who conduct innovative research within and across the natural and environmental social sciences (https://envs.dartmouth.edu). Faculty within ENVS are members of the novel interdisciplinary EEES PhD Program (https://sites.dartmouth.edu/EEES/). The fellow will have the opportunity to engage with EEES community, a highly interactive group of faculty, graduate students, and post-docs. The fellow will continue their own independent research agenda, as well as explore new research projects in collaboration with ENVS faculty [...]