Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor of Sustainability Science, Indigenous Sustainabilities
Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science calls for applications for a professorship or a fixed-term associate/assistant professorship (tenure track system) in sustainability science, with focus on indigenous sustainabilities. HELSUS is a new cross-faculty research unit in sustainability science at the University of Helsinki.
The appointee will work in the HELSUS interdisciplinary research programmes and teach in HELSUS associated master’s and doctoral programmes. The successful applicant may be appointed to a professorship or a fixed-term associate/assistant professorship (tenure track system), depending on his or her qualifications and career stage.
The appointee shall have scholarly interest in indigenous sustainabilities through one or more of the following frameworks: human-environment relations, traditional environmental knowledge, gender, law, politics, indigenous governance, indigenous health and wellbeing, indigenous ontologies, indigenous activism and indigenous movements. Experience in working with indigenous communities, familiarity with indigenous or decolonizing methodologies and some knowledge of at least one indigenous language is considered an asset.
Deadline for applications: August 31, 2017
For more details, requirements for the position and instructions on how to apply, see the full call.