The Land Portal launches third annual land data stories contest
In honour of International Open Data Day, having taken place on March 6th, we would like to invite you to submit your data story to the Land Portal. Read more here below! Why submit a data story? Promoting your… Read More
Job Opportunities: Three faculty positions in Social/Cultural Geographies (Singapore)
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (NUS) THREE faculty positions in Social/Cultural Geographies addressing contemporary crises of sustainability in Asia (two positions at Assistant Professor level on the tenure-track and one at Associate or Full Professor level… Read More
Call for Articles: Contested airport land in the Global South
Contested airport land in the Global South Call for contributions to book edition “Contested airport land in the Global South” (working title), initial editors: Sneha Sharma & Irit Eguavoen, AG Geographische Entwicklungsforschung, Universität Bonn Airport lands and those… Read More
Opportunity: PhD in Geography
Deadline for application is 30th April 2021. Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the Department of Geography at the University of Bergen (UiB) are seeking a PhD candidate to conduct research related to the project “Prioritizing the Displacement-Environment Nexus:… Read More
Opportunity: Climate Change and Resilience in Food Systems Course
Climate Change and Resilience in Food Systems Course University of Leeds, GCRF Africap Learn new research-led strategies designed to mitigate the effects of climate change on agriculture and food systems. Even small climate changes can have large-scale consequences… Read More
Studentship opportunity: PhD scholarship on The Housing ‘Trilemma’: Geographies of Precarity in Rural Scotland
Deadline for applications: 31st March 2021 This PhD studentship seeks to understand how precarity is produced, experienced and resisted in relation to housing in rural Scotland, in order to develop a novel ‘housing trilemma’ approach. Discussions of precarity… Read More
Opening of 2 PhD positions at VUB and KU Leuven in the field of housing and neighborhood studies
Deadline for application: 3rd May 2021 For a new project on ‘Reconceptualizing the right to housing from a personal and neighborhood perspective’ Cosmopolis Centre of Urban Research of Vrije Universiteit Brussel and OSA Urbanism & Architecture of KU… Read More
Land MDPI Special Issue “Land Perspectives: People, Tenure, Planning, Tools, Space, and Health”
Efficient land (including water and forest) administration practices are required to achieve many global development agendas—e.g., land degradation neutrality, New Urban Agenda, COP21, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and COVID-19 or Coronavirus pandemic challenges. It also helps to create… Read More
Young Farmers Open Letter Contest
Young Farmers Open Letter Contest BACKGROUND In 2020, the consortium Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and La Via Campesina (LVC) through the ASEAN Farmers’ Organisation Support Programme (AFOSP) – Asia-Pacific Farmers’ Program (APFP) platform conducted… Read More
Posted: 19th April 2021 by Charlotte Stam
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral GIS Researcher in Environmental, Housing and Health Inequalities
Deadline for application 21st of April 2021. University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences – Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with experience in spatial analysis to join… Read More