Two fully-funded PhD positions on climate transparency
Gupta, Aarti
Dear GEP-ed colleagues,
Happy to share that I will be starting a new 4-year project on climate transparency and the Paris Agreement in January 2020, and for that, I am now recruiting two fully-funded PhD positions.
More information about the two PhD projects, including how to apply, can be found here: https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/2-Fully-funded-PhD-positions-Climate-Governance-Climate-Transparency-.htm
I can attest to the fact that the Netherlands is a great place to live and work, academia is fun and PhDs are treated as full-fledged employees and not students [not that there is anything wrong with being a student... :)! But employees have all kinds of additional benefits]
Could you share this with interested candidates, and anyone you think might be suitable? Deadline for application is November 10, 2019.
With many thanks and best regards,
Aarti
Some more background on project, in case of interest
New 4-year research project on climate transparency, based at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, has openings for two PhDs
Project Title: Assessing the Transformative Effects of Transparency in Global Governance: The Case of Climate Change (TRANSGOV)
Project description: The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement calls for ever greater transparency from countries about their voluntary climate actions. Such transparency is assumed to facilitate greater accountability and trust between countries, thereby stimulating ambitious climate action. Yet does transparency generate such transformative effects and under what conditions? TRANSGOV addresses this urgent question.
TRANSGOV will advance scholarly understanding of the transformative potential of climate transparency, given ever greater quantities of climate data being generated by state and non-state actors, and given assumptions that such transparency furthers accountability, trust and climate ambition. TRANSGOV research will also be highly policy relevant, feeding research results into ongoing transparency and reporting-and-review processes of the Paris Agreement. The project will also assess emerging and potentially novel interfaces between public (governmental) climate transparency and private disclosure initiatives, and the consequences of using blockchain and other novel digital means to further climate transparency.
The TRANSGOV core team, led by project leader Dr. Aarti Gupta will be based at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University but will liaise with the project’s broader network, including partners and advisors in four case-study countries (Australia, India, Netherlands and South Africa). The project is now recruiting two PhD students to execute the project and will in due course also recruit a postdoctoral researcher. The project will run for 4 years (2020 – 2023).
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Dr. Aarti Gupta
Associate Professor
Environmental Policy Group
Department of Social Sciences
Wageningen University
Hollandseweg 1
6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-(0)317-482496 / 484452
Email: aarti...@wur.nl
Webpage: http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Persons/dr.-A-Aarti-Gupta.htm