PhD Position (Law and/or Political Science) - Governance of Climate Extremes at Unibe (Bern, Switzerland) | Careerkit Jobs
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Unibe·Education·Bern
PhD Position (Law and/or Political Science) - Governance of Climate Extremes
RoleFixed-term · Mid · Education
LogisticsCloses in 25 days
RequirementsMaster's · EU/EFTA permit
How you match
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Skills
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Data AnalysisCommunicationResearch MethodologyLawpolitical scienceAnalytical ThinkingGouvernanceProblem SolvingProject management softwareInterdisziplinäre ForschungLegal StudiesClimate Research
Languages
GermanFrenchEnglish
The role
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01This PhD project is part of Workpackage 3 of NCCR CLIM+, which concentrates on questions of governance and justice around the regulation of climate extremes (such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and heavy precipitation amongst others).
02The successful candidate will complete a PhD thesis at the interface of law and political science.
03Specifically, the thesis will investigate under what conditions law and politics recognize and define an event as 'extreme' and what this means for resulting governance responses and questions of justice.
Requirements
↳Masters degree in Political Science, Law, and/or the Social Sciences, including Socio-legal Studies.
↳Interest in exploring the governance of extreme climate events at the intersection of law and political science
↳Curious, creative and comfortable working in interdisciplinary settings
↳Excellent command of English, German and/or French (both written and spoken)
