Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Ethnography and River Biographies amid climate change

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Offer Description: The position A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the interdisciplinary ERC research project RiverPulse is available at the Department of Language and Culture , Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education . About the project RiverPulse: Reconfiguring human–nature interactions as an assemblage at the Arctic frontline of climate change is an ERC Advanced Grant project at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway. It examines how accelerating climate change transforms Arctic salmon rivers as ecological systems, multispecies environments, lived places and sites of governance. The broader aim is to advance assemblage thinking as an empirically grounded framework for understanding climate change as a crisis of relations and Arctic salmon rivers as assemblages of ecological, social, cultural and political processes. The project works across three river regions: Reisa in Norway, Tornio in Finland and Sweden, and Kapisillit in Greenland. The communities are multilingual and -cultural, including Sámi and Kalaallit Indigenous communities and Kven and Meänkieli minority contexts. RiverPulse combines ecological and quantitative research with ethnographic, historical, citizen-science and governance approaches to understand how climate-driven changes in rivers and salmon systems reconfigure river–salmon–human relations, knowledge and governance. RiverPulse is designed as an interdisciplinary research programme, where the announecd postdoctoral research fellow position is one of four positions. Ecological and quantitative evidence will be interpreted alongside qualitative and community-based knowledge, while each researcher retains clear scholarly responsibility for their own area. You will join a team spanning the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences, with interdisciplinary collaborators and local research assistants across the three river regions. The position is a fixed term position for a duration of 3 years. It is a prerequisite that the applicant can carry out the project over the full course of the employment period. No person may hold more than one fixed term position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the same institution. The Department has a very active and diverse research profile, and hosts about 140 employees the majority of which are situated at the Tromsø campus, but some are at the Alta campus. There are about 500 students at the department. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, you will have the opportunity to advance your scientific career and further qualify for academic positions. If you do not already have the educational competence that meets the requirements for an Associate Professor position in Norway, UiT will arrange such competence during the employment period. The workplace is at UiT in Tromsø, and some travel should be expected in the role . You must be able to start in the position by the 1st of April 2027. The project/position's field of research We are recruiting four postdoctoral research fellows with complementary expertise. Each position has its own research question and responsibilities, while all four fellows will contribute to the interdisciplinary work of RiverPulse across ecological, social, cultural and political processes. Previous Arctic or northern research experience is an advantage, but it is not generally required. We welcome applications from candidates who can explain how their expertise can contribute to RiverPulse. You are not expected to arrive as an expert in every method or discipline used in the project. In addition to their position-specific research responsibilities (please see below), all postdoctoral fellows will contribute to shared RiverPulse activities, including project meetings, workshops and events, research communication and dissemination, and other project-related activities. In addition, the position involves periods of extended fieldwork in one or several of our research sites. You must submit a preliminary research plan of max Bando dell'ente: Our students and staff are our most important resources. One prerequisite for us to succeed in our social responsibility is therefore that everyone is allowed to develop their potential. Our students and staff hail from different countries and places and have different backgrounds and histories. They bring with them experiences and perspectives that enrich and challenge. UiT shall use this diversity as an advantage in creative and co-creating work, including as a foundation for building leading academic communities. Ambition: UiT shall be a venue for the development of students and employees' expertise and talent, with diversity as a driving force and resource. The translations are not official, they are provided for information purposes only. In the event of any inconsistency, the Norwegian version shall prevail. Do you want to know more about career development? Click here to see more Introduction from the rector's office Ambitions with career and expertise development Elina Halttunen, head of department A conversation about career guidance with Elina Halttunen Jasmine Nahrgang, professor A conversation about career guidance with Jasmine Nahrgang All employees Having a career does not simply mean climbing a ladder of job titles. The UiT 2030 strategy states that UiT shall be a venue for the development of students and employees' expertise and talent, with diversity as a driving force and resource. In order to achieve this ambition, UiT must: Develop, attract and retain talent. We will establish instruments to facilitate the development of employees’ and academic communities' capacity and expertise. We shall break down career barriers, maintain an integrated recruitment policy and systematically develop leadership and collaboration between employees. 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