Linnaeus University is a modern, international university with Småland as its base and the world as its stage. We combine curiosity, creativity and utility with an entrepreneurial thinking in education and research. Seeing possibilities and believing in the future is part of what we do every day.

We now strengthen our prominent research by recruiting 21 postdoctoral fellows.

The Department of Social Studies is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The research activities will be conducted within the Sociology unit. The research group seeks one Post Doctoral researcher in computational social sciences.

Field of subject for the position

Large-scale collective action in a rapidly changing environment (LARCH).

Placement

Växjö

Extent and period

The position is for 2 years, 100 %

Context of position

The rapid development in population, affluence and technology that occurred in the last two centuries has dramatically increased the scale of human impact on natural systems. Starting from Garrett Hardin's seminal article The Tragedy of the Commons, the management of natural resources is widely recognized as a collective action problem: a situation where short-term individual interest is at odds with the achievement of larger collective benefits. Most issues related to global environmental change – from climate change mitigation, to biodiversity conservation and population control – can be understood as public-good or commonpool resource management problems, both requiring successful collective action for their solution. The resulting “cooperation games” are currently faced by millions, if not billions, of people across all continents. Achieving a better understanding of their dynamics and of the factors that can be successfully manipulated is hence crucial to face current global environmental challenges.

The new post-doc will contribute to establish a CSS research group focused on environmental issues. Her/his main tasks will be to analyse existing data on “green” attitudes and behaviours from online interactions and to help the development and deployment of a platform to conduct online experiments on resource-related problems. The post-doc will also help to create a stronger research environment in relation to the activities of the Doctoral Programme in Sociology, allowing for a further development in the direction of computational and environmental social sciences.

The post-doc is expected to actively participate in the department's environment and network both internally and externally.

The new position will provide an important contribution to the setup of the international master in Applied social analysis, which will run starting from the Fall semester 2016, first in terms of improved scientific environment and, more practically, with a maximum of 20% teaching.

Qualification requirements:

Qualified for appointment is the one who holds a PhD, or a foreign degree equivalent to a PhD, and who have completed their degree no more than three years before the application deadline.

Applicants must not have previously been employed as a postdoctoral fellow for more than a year in the same or related subject area at Linnaeus University.

To be eligible for this position good knowledge of English is also required.

Assessment criteria

A good expertise in experimental methods, social simulation or network analysis is clearly an advantage.

The work is performed in a research group why teamwork and flexibility is accorded great importance.

In its overall assessment of skills gives particular importance to an assessment of the applicant's potential for a successful career as a teacher and

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Arbetsgivare Namn: Linnéuniversitetet

Arbetsgivare adress: 351 95 Växjö 35195 Växjö

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Jobb kort beskrivning: University and higher education teachers

Land: Sweden

Område: Kronobergs län

Avtalstid: Permanent

Typ av kontrakt: Full time

Källa till jobberbjudande: Public Employment Service of Sweden(AMS)

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