PhD Position on project "Times of Polycrisis in the UK and Europe" (Greece/Turkey Focus)

[Daniel Knight]

Dear All,

There is a fully funded PhD position in Anthropology at St Andrews available on a Leverhulme project "Times of Polycrisis in UK and Europe". Research for the PhD will have a Greece/Turkey focus, preferably on energy/climate. The duration is 3.5 years.

Please see the following link for full details: Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant - Study at St Andrews - University of St Andrews

More information on the project can be found in the write-up on page 7 of the Leverhulme Trust's Newsletter: Leverhulme Trust Newsletter – February 2025 by Leverhulme Trust - Flipsnack

Postdoctoral positions (1 with Greece focus) will also be advertised for this and a corresponding project soon...

All best wishes,

Daniel

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Dr Daniel M. Knight, PhD | Reader | Department of Social Anthropology | University of St Andrews | St Andrews | Fife | KY16 9AL | United Kingdom | Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies | Co-Editor, History and Anthropology journal

Books: 

2025. Energy Talk: Green Knowledge from Greece's Silicon Plains. (Cornell University Press)

2024. Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres. (Duke University Press)

2021. Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen. (Berghahn)

2019. The Anthropology of the Future. (Cambridge University Press) 

2017. Ethnographies of Austerity: Temporality, Crisis and Affect in Southern Europe. (Routledge) 

2015. History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece. (Palgrave)

HERA-CHANSE Award PI, Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis (TiCToC), 2025-28

Leverhulme Trust Award PI, Times of Polycrisis (ToP), 2025-29