PhD positions on environmental governance in Gothenburg

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From: EnvironmentalGovernance <environmentalgo...@mailman22.u.washington.edu> on behalf of Aksel Sundström via EnvironmentalGovernance <environment...@u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
To: Aseem Prakash via EnvironmentalGovernance <environment...@u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Environmental Politics & Governance (EPG) PhD positions on environmental governance in Gothenburg

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Dear EPG Colleagues,

Please feel free to spread to your students - we are recruiting two PhD-student positions in Gothenburg.

Best,

Aksel

Doctoral student in Political Science, one or two, for a research programme on environmental governance and corruption (University of Gothenburg)

The Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, offers one or two fully paid 4-year positions leading to a PhD.

The doctoral positions are funded by Mistra CLEAN, a research programme focused on examining the connections between institutional failures and environmental challenges. The programme addresses two major societal issues: institutional failures - such as corruption, policy capture, and crime - and environmental problems, as well as the linkages between these processes. Its overarching aim is to generate both theoretical and empirical insights into these phenomena.

As part of your employment as a doctoral student, you have a salary and full employment benefits for at least 4 years. You may have departmental duties corresponding to up to 20 % of full-time employment, distributed throughout your study period, and result in a corresponding extension of the studies up to one year. Departmental duties usually consist of teaching but may also include research and administration. 

The Department is an open and socially engaged institution, in the middle of the city and at the centre of the debate. The working language in the lunchroom is English, and it has one of the biggest Political Science faculties in Europe. Our research revolves around elections, democracy, corruption, forms of government, globalization, the environment and politics, and European politics. The department hosts research programs such as the Center for Environmental Political Studies (CEPS), the Quality of Government (QoG) institute, the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) institute, Governance and Local Development (GLD) and the Swedish Electoral Research Program. 

See more information at https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=39094 

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Aksel Sundström

Professor

Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg

ERC Starting Grant Recipient

PI for the Quality of Government (QoG) Data team

www.akselsundstrom.com

Recent outputs:

• Dawson, S., F. Haass, C. Müller-Crepon, A. Sundström (2025) The Ethnic Politics of Nature Protection in Africa the Journal of Politics.
• Michaelsen, P., A. Sundström and S. C. Jagers (2025) Mass support for conserving 30% of the Earth by 2030: Experimental evidence from five continents PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.