PhD position - Pastoralist Futures: Land Transformation in East Africa's Drylands 80 %
Universität Zürich · Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Skills in this posting
The posting
### The University of Zurich, Switzerland's largest university, offers a range of attractive positions in various subject areas and professional fields. With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional apprenticeship streams the University offers an inspiring working environment on cutting-edge research and top-class education. Put your talent and skills to work with us. Find out more about UZH as an employer! ###
Your responsibilities
The PhD candidate will develop a dissertation research project aligned with the project theme above and will be supervised by Dr. Asebe Regassa Debelo.
You will join the Political Geography Group, which brings together researchers from Asia, Africa, and Europe to study the entanglements of development, humanitarianism, war, displacement, extraction, frontier and border violence, and environmental change.
Alongside your PhD research, the position includes teaching responsibilities as required by the Graduate School in Geography and Earth System Sciences.
Your profile
You have or are close to completing a Master's degree in human geography, anthropology, development studies, area studies, or another related discipline
In addition, research experience in East African pastoralist territories and language skills (Swahili and/or Afaan Oromo) will be an asset.
The PivotHop read
- What a research scientist actually earnsmedian, seniority, by country
- Where research scientists move nextevery measured route out
- Data Scientist → Research Scientist55% readiness
- Computer Vision Engineer → Research Scientist45% readiness
- All open research scientist rolesthe full board
Where these skills also reach
- 57 open data annotator roles41% readiness from research scientist
- 23 open robotics engineer roles36% readiness from research scientist
- 600 open solutions architect roles32% readiness from research scientist
- 62 open economist roles32% readiness from research scientist
More research scientist roles
Research Scientist/Engineer (Agentic Systems) at WhitecircleParisTodayApply- Research Scientist (AI Behaviours) at WhitecircleParisTodayApply
Research Associate at Health Advocate Solutions, Inc.United States · Remote1d agoApply- Wissenschaftliche/-r Mitarbeiter/-in Zulassungsstelle Pflanzenschutzmittel at Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen BLVBern, Bern, Switzerland1d agoApply
Postdoctoral Scientist - Vascularized Kidney Organoids (at the Institute of Human Biology (IHB)) at RocheBasel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland1d agoApply
Backfilled listing, refreshed with the nightly scrape; the employer has not claimed it yet. Are you the employer? Claim this listing and it can be featured to the candidates whose skills already reach it, first month free.