Activism in Global Education: From Theory to Practice in Higher
Discussing the intersections of education, social justice, and activism. How can educators and researchers foster activist engagement in their work?
The University of Oulu, an institution that helped to found the ANGEL network, are looking for three Doctoral Researchers to join the PROFI7 Frontiers of Arctic and Global Resilience (FRONT) research programme. The doctoral researcher positions will be placed in the Oulu Business School, Faculty of Education and Psychology, and Faculty of Science.
Deadline: 15 May
Position 1: Resilient Organizations and Business Networks
In this position, as a doctoral researcher, you will focus on research themes related to resilience emerging in organizations and business networks, collect and analyze data based on which you will write scientific articles together with senior researchers, participate in possible teaching tasks, and collaborate in service to FRONT programme, faculty, and university.
Position 2: Socio-ecological resilience
In this position, as a doctoral researcher, you will work in a transdisciplinary subproject in the socio-ecological resilience team with the aim to identify sources of anxiety, hope, and hopelessness concerning global sustainability problems, like climate change, among young people. You will identify resilience factors that can help young people to become active citizens around these issues, without compromising mental well-being and learning, collect both quantitative and qualitative data (surveys and interviews), analyze this data, and possibly already collected data, with the help of multivariate statistics and qualitative methods, write articles together with senior researchers, collaborate in service to FRONT research programme, faculty and university and contribute to teaching tasks.
Position 3: Spatiotemporal dynamics of socio-ecological resilience
In this position, as a doctoral researcher, you will collect and analyze quantitative geospatial and qualitative data about factors relevant to socio-ecological resilience, utilize of state-of-the-art geospatial modeling methods, work in a transdisciplinary research group focusing on socio-ecological and environmental research, write articles together with senior researchers, collaborate in service to the FRONT programme, faculty, and university and participate in possible teaching tasks.