業務内容

• 募集の背景、プロジェクトの説明

  We welcome applications for a PHD candidate for the research project “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change,” funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC-StG).
  
  Climate Citizenship explores how adapting environments to climate change through new forms of nature-based infrastructure reshapes people's relationships with each other and the state. Examples range from green roofs and vertical gardens to urban parks, flood plains and more ambitious efforts to transform landscapes. The project treats these infrastructures as social and political as well as environmental experiments. It asks: when and how do they stimulate behavioural change, create new alliances between stakeholders, or transform the division of rights and responsibilities within a society?
  
  As a PhD candidate, you will conduct ethnographic research on these questions in the Tokyo Bay area (Japan). You will employ an “ecographic” research design, combining ethnographic methods with those from the ecological sciences in order to track how new forms of climate adaptation alter both environment and society. Your primary supervisor will be the project’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Andrew Littlejohn. The project is hosted by Leiden University’s Institute of Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology.

  https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2025/q1/15477-2-phd-candidates-for-the-project-climate-citizenship

• 仕事内容・職務内容

  As a PhD candidate, you will conduct independent ethnographic research in the Tokyo Bay area (Japan) within the frame of this project:
  - You will conduct ethnographic research, entailing at least 10 months of fieldwork, using an “ecographic” protocol developed together with the Postdoc;
  - Submit a PhD thesis, publish at least one peer-reviewed journal article, and produce one work of audio-visual media;
  - Co-produce a podcast series designed for a public audience on the results of the project;
  - Participate in the meetings and proceedings of the project (e.g. reading groups, seminars, workshops) and wider activities of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology, including training requirements of the institute and faculty;
  - Co-organise and participate in academic and public events, such as an international conference organized by the project.
  
  You will be part of a team comprising two PhD candidates, a postdoctoral researcher, and the PI. The entire team is expected to reside in the Netherlands and work from Leiden for the duration of the project, except during fieldwork.

• 配属部署

  Existing departments

  Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology