December 2, 2020

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Position 1 - Reference Number VI-693/20
Senior Researcher, 60%, 4 years (Post-doc, or advanced pre-doc)
Deadline for Applications: December 18, 2020

English Version: https://stellenticket.de/85904/?lang=en
German Version: https://stellenticket.de/85903/?lang=de

For the research and devel­op­ment phase of the joint pro­ject 'Urban-Rural Assembly (URA): Stra­tegic tools for integ­rated ter­rit­orial plan­ning enhan­cing urban-rural integ­ra­tion and cir­cu­lar eco­nom­ies' - fun­ded by the Ger­man Fed­eral Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Research (BMBF, 01LE1804A) - we are look­ing for a researcher who takes on the fol­low­ing tasks:

1) Sup­port of the Prin­cipal Invest­ig­ator in the imple­ment­a­tion of a sub-pro­ject for the con­cep­tion and design of sus­tain­able scen­arios of urban-rural devel­op­ment based on the con­text-spe­cific test­ing and fur­ther devel­op­ment of actor-ori­ented and par­ti­cip­at­ory plan­ning and gov­ernance tools.

2) Con­cep­tu­al­isa­tion and deliv­ery of pro­ject related work­shops and con­fer­ences in cooper­a­tion with the Sino-Ger­man research con­sor­tium.

3) Sup­port in liais­ing with the pro­ject man­age­ment agency (DLR) and fund­ing agency (BMBF).

4) Par­ti­cip­a­tion in aca­demic pub­lish­ing activ­it­ies, con­fer­ence con­tri­bu­tions and edit­or­ial of pro­ject related journal (URA Peri­od­ical). 


Position 2 - Reference Number VI-692/20
Researcher, 60%, 4 years (Pre-doc, Chinese speaking)
Deadline for Applications: December 18, 2020

English Version: https://stellenticket.de/85902/?lang=en
German Version: https://stellenticket.de/85901/?lang=de

For the research and devel­op­ment phase of the joint pro­ject 'Urban-Rural Assembly (URA): Stra­tegic tools for integ­rated ter­rit­orial plan­ning enhan­cing urban-rural integ­ra­tion and cir­cu­lar eco­nom­ies' - fun­ded by the Ger­man Fed­eral Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Research (BMBF, 01LE1804A) - we are look­ing for a research assist­ant who takes on the fol­low­ing tasks:

1) Sup­port of the Prin­cipal Invest­ig­ator in the imple­ment­a­tion of a sub-pro­ject to invest­ig­ate the inter­play between global urb­an­isa­tion pro­cesses and the form­a­tion of local and con­text-spe­cific spa­tial pro­duc­tion, par­tic­u­larly focus­ing on every­day pro­cesses of trans­lo­cal socio-spa­tial prac­tices at the urban-rural inter­face of the Chinese study region Taizhou-Huangyan (Zhei­jang Province), includ­ing con­cep­tu­al­isa­tion, imple­ment­a­tion and eval­u­ation of field research based on urban eth­no­graphic research meth­ods.

2) Inde­pend­ent pro­cessing and com­ple­tion of a doc­tor­ate within the frame­work of the research work over the pro­ject period of 4 years.

3) Spa­tial visu­al­isa­tion and map­ping of research res­ults in use of GIS soft­ware (QGIS).

4) Sup­port in coordin­a­tion and com­mu­nic­a­tion with Chinese con­sor­tium and col­lab­or­a­tion part­ners.

5) Reg­u­lar coordin­a­tion of own research work with research and prac­tice part­ners in Ger­many and China, as well as pre­par­a­tion and imple­ment­a­tion of reg­u­lar con­fer­ence con­tri­bu­tions.

The research activ­it­ies at Hab­itat Unit are part of an inter­dis­cip­lin­ary con­sor­tium includ­ing lead­ing research insti­tu­tions from Ger­many and China in close cooper­a­tion with local research and prac­tice part­ners from the Chinese study region Taizhou-Huangyan as well as inter­na­tional part­ners such as UN-Hab­itat and ICLEI. The main goal of the joint pro­ject is the devel­op­ment of new inter­dis­cip­lin­ary know­ledge sets on urban-rural link­ages that serve the trans­dis­cip­lin­ary devel­op­ment and test­ing of applic­a­tion-ori­ented plan­ning and gov­ernance tools for stra­tegic, actor-ori­ented and socio-eco­lo­gic­ally sus­tain­able urban-rural policies, urban-rural man­age­ment mod­els and integ­rated plan­ning pro­cesses. The Hab­itat Unit is tak­ing a lead role in the con­sor­tium.