Post-doctoral fellows

Post-doctoral fellows The Department of Social and Economic Geography is recruiting 4 post-doctoral fellows With about 50 employed, the Department of Social and Economic Geography offers a world-class, international, and interdisciplinary research environment.Following years of influential research, the department continues to expand.As a result, we now announce for the recruitment of four new post-doctoral research scholars within the following research areas: 1.Resource use conflicts in Northern Europe (2 years - 100%).The successful applicant is expected to contribute to a project dealing with resource conflicts related to restructuring, mining, nature protection and tourism development.Applicants with experiences and interest in one of these fields and knowledge of quantitative methods and ArcGIS are welcomed particularly. Ref 315-866-09 2.Resources and competitiveness in northern peripheries (2 years - 100%).The successful applicant will develop a quantitative and qualitative research on alternative resource utilizations and their competitiveness in a global perspective, in collaboration with researchers included in the research programme "Northern Studies".Applicants with experiences of quantitative data bases are particularly welcomed. Ref 315-867-09 3.Attitudes and values to forest resources (1 year - 100%).The successful applicant will focus on demographic change and population distribution and its effects on people's attitudes, values and utilization of the forest landscape for different purposes.Based on cohort specific surveys and interviews, the position will identify specific focus areas of the framework, such as for instance the potential conflict between different objective and perceived values related to the forest resource.The specific in-depth study areas will be defined in cooperation with the Future Forest programme at large, in order to view areas that may be of particular importance in adapting Swedish forest use to future stresses such as climate change and globalisation. Ref 315-868-09 4.Urban geography with special focus on the countries of post-socialist Central Europe or the former Soviet Union (1 year - 100 %).The successful applicant will be expected to focus primarily on the experience of small and medium-sized cities (including monoindustrial centres), emphasizing the characteristics of these places' spatial restructuring (or destructuring?) since the demise of central planning.An adequate comprehension of the ongoing urban processes requires deep understanding of the socialist past and of of its legacies.Therefore, an additional task will be to explore the working of the housing (and other infrastructure) construction and allocation system during the socialist epoch across the region. Ref 315-869-09 See complete advert: http://www.jobb.umu.se