2 Phd Positions to Investigate Sustainability
2 maanden geleden
**Location**:Amsterdam
**Max hours per week**:38.00
**Max salary**:3.670
**Duration of agreement**:48 months
**Two PhD Positions to Investigate Sustainability Experimentations in European Horticultural Greenhouses**
**What Will You Do?**PhD1: Multispecies Relations** - studying the interactions between growers, pickers, researchers, plants, and non-human laborers, such as pollinator bees.**PhD2: Greenhouse Digitalization** - investigating how growers, researchers, and workers are adapting to or resisting ‘climate-intelligent agriculture,’ a recent iteration of sustainability.
Briefly, the VITALGREENHOUSE project aims to investigate greenhouses in both countries as sites embedded within a long history of human-environment relations, integrating questions of landscape exploitation, digitalization, mobilities, and human and non-human labor. The project seeks to generate new critical perspectives on planetary transformations and advance theoretical debates in critical infrastructure studies, multispecies relations, and decolonial thought.
**Your Tasks**- Conduct ethnographic research on one of the following topics: multispecies relations (PhD1) or greenhouse digitalization (PhD2).-
- Contribute to collaborative aspects of the project, including data collection for jointly written publications.- Provide organizational support for team activities, such as workshops, meetings, and other project events, gaining valuable professional experience while working toward your PhD.- Reside in Amsterdam (or within commuting distance) when not on fieldwork and actively participate in team meetings and the research environment at the Institute.
**Requirements**:
The following are **_essential_**_:_-
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.- Familiarity with ethnographic research methods.- Independent thinking and strong analytical skills.- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to integrate into interdisciplinary academic communities.- A commitment to academic integrity and transparency.- The ability to complete the PhD thesis within four years; this includes strong planning, initiative, and academic writing skills.- Availability to travel to Spain for fieldwork, preferably in the last quarter of 2025.
The following are **_desirable_**:
- Affinity with the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).- Previous practical experience in ethnographic research.- Oral and written communication skills in Dutch and Spanish.- A good understanding of AI (for PhD2).- Commitment to or previous engagement with topics related to agricultural transitions, sustainability, political ecology, and multispecies ethnographies.
**Additional Information**
For any questions or further information, please contact:
Dr. Rebeca Ibáñez Martín, Principal Investigator of VITALGREENHOUSE
**Selection Process**
**Application Requirements**
Applications should include the following (all files, except your CV, should be submitted as a **_single PDF_**):
- Your Curriculum Vitae (max. 2 pages), including a list of publications, if applicable.- A cover letter (max. 2 pages) describing your qualifications and motivation for the position. Please specify the aspects of the project that interest you and explain what has led you to your current intellectual and scholarly focus.- A link to your Master’s thesis (if available online) or an abstract and conclusion if not.- A research statement on how you would approach the PhD project (max. 2 pages).- Contact information for two academic references (no letters of recommendation at this stage).
**About Meertens**
The Meertens Institute, together with the International Institute of Social History and the Huygens ING, is part of the KNAW Humanities Cluster. This is a partnership in which research in the humanities (history, ethnology, literature, linguistics) is carried out using advanced methods, in which computer science plays an important role.
The Meertens Institute is a national institute for research and documentation of the Dutch language and culture, and language and culture in the Netherlands. It consists of the research groups Ethnology and Variational Linguistics, both of which hold leading positions in international research on everyday language and culture.
**Terms of employment**
Depending on education and experience the minimum salary is 2.872 and the maximum salary is 3.670 gross per month for a full-time appointment (scale P cao Nederlandse Universiteiten/KNAW). This is exclusive of 8% vacation allowance, 8.3% year-end bonus, travel allowance, internet allowance, home working allowance and pension accrual with ABP.
The KNAW offers its staff an excellent package of secondary benefits. A package that meets the different needs of employees depending on their stage of life, lifestyle or career ambitions. For example, by working an extra two hours a week, it is possible to increase the number of days off from 29 to 41 days a year (with full-time employment).
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