Job Description
Full Time, Fixed Term for 24 Months.
Applications are sought for a committed Political Ecology Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work with Dr Jessica Hope (University of St Andrews) on the European Research Council-funded project Roads to Sustainability: exploring the infrastructures of a sustainable future.
As part of a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers, 16 Indigenous researchers, and the Principal Investigator, you will investigate road building in the Western Amazon and the emancipatory possibilities of alternative infrastructures. Specifically, you will work on infrastructural-ecological-citizenship in Iquitos, Peru.
The primary research duties will be to:
- Design and implement research on infrastructural-ecological-citizenship in Iquitos, Peru - an Amazonian city with no connecting road
- Conduct data collection, analysis, and dissemination of research findings through high-quality publications
- Collaborate with the proj...