Two fully funded PhD positions on Climate Mobility in the Borderlands
ingrid boas
Dear GEP colleagues,
Happy to share that I will be starting a 5-year project on climate mobility in borderland contexts early next year, focussed on the West African, Bengal and Pacific borderlands, and for that, I am now recruiting two fully-funded PhD positions. The project is based at the Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University (The Netherlands) and will work in active collaboration withthe Calcutta Research Group (India), the United International University (Bangladesh); the University of Melbourne (Australia); University of Ghana; University of the Cape Coast (Ghana); and Deltares (The Netherlands).
More information about the two PhD projects, including how to apply, can be found here:
PhD position 1:https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/PhD-position-Climate-mobility-in-the-West-African-Borderlands.htm
PhD position 2:https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/PhD-position-Climate-mobility-in-the-Bengal-and-Pacific-Borderlands.htm
Could you share this with interested candidates, and anyone you think might be suitable? Deadline for application is December 20, 2021.For questions, candidates can always email me at ingri...@wur.nl
With many thanks and best regards,
Ingrid
Dr. Ingrid Boas
Associate Professor
Environmental Policy Group
Wageningen University, NL
Some more background on project, in case of interest
Project title:Climate change-related mobility in the borderlands
It is a 5-year research program funded by the Netherlands Scientific Organisation (NWO)’s Vidi program, led by Dr. Ingrid Boas. Its objective is to examine the nexus between climate change and human mobility in borderland contexts. The project will focus on communities who have historically been mobile in relation to environmental challenges. Think of pastoralists or nomadic fishers, or people living in dynamic deltas. We aim to uncover how their mobility is being affected by climate change. Is climate change disrupting or changing their mobility patterns and if so, how? How do the historical and socio-cultural ways of moving intersect with these dynamics? And how does this play out in settings of cross-border movement and border controls? How is the relation between climate change and mobility mediated by the drivers, politics and history of the borderlands in question? The project will centralize the lived experiences and perspectives of those moving, both through participatory mobile/visual methods and collaborative forms of knowledge utilization. In collaboration with Deltares, we will also use interdisciplinary tools to identify the role of climate change in accounts of mobility.