University of Oxford – School of Geography and the Environment
| Location: | Oxford |
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| Salary: | £39,424 to £47,779 G7 |
| Hours: | Full Time |
| Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Join an innovative ERC-funded research project exploring how diverse people and communities learn to live with drought across Europe. Living with Drought: Human-Environment Relationships in Drying European Landscapes (DROUGHT) brings together perspectives from anthropology, geosciences, and the environmental humanities to understand drought as a complex socio-cultural and geophysical process.
Working with Dr Sara Asu Schroer, you will be responsible for carrying out a multi-sited ethnographic case study with a focus on Spain, contributing to a comparative programme spanning Germany, Norway, the UK, and beyond. This role involves regular travel and extended periods of fieldwork. You will engage with farmers, conservationists, policymakers, scientists, and local communities, to explore how drought is experienced, understood, and responded to in practice.
This role offers the opportunity to combine independent research with close collaboration in a research team. We are seeking a researcher who holds, or is close to completion of, a PhD/DPhil, with strong experience in qualitative and ethnographic research. You will be comfortable with working collaboratively, and communicating research to a range of audiences. An ability to conduct research in Spanish is essential, and an interest in cross-disciplinary perspectives and experimental multimodal research approaches is highly valued.
This role offers the chance to contribute to an ambitious international project while developing innovative ethnographic approaches to one of Europe’s most pressing environmental challenges.
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