PhD Position (Law and/or Political Science) - Governance of Climate Extremes

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Job description
This PhD project is part of Workpackage 3 of NCCR CLIM+, which concentrates on questions of governance and justice around the regulation of climate extremes (such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and heavy precipitation amongst others). The successful candidate will complete a PhD thesis at the interface of law and political science. Specifically, the thesis will investigate under what conditions law and politics recognize and define an event as 'extreme' and what this means for resulting goveranance responses and questions of justice.

Your profile

• Masters degree in Political Science, Law, and/or the Social Sciences, including Socio-legal Studies.
• Interest in exploring the governance of extreme climate events at the intersection of law and political science
• Curious, creative and comfortable working in interdisciplinary settings
• Excellent command of English, German and/or French (both written and spoken)

Bewerbung und Kontakt
We look forward to receiving your online application with the following documents:

• Detailed CV
• Letter of Motivation
• Copy of Master Diploma
• Writing sample (15-20 pages, e.g. a chapter from your Master thesis)
• indicate two references that we might contact upon request

Review of the applications will start mid-October and Interview are planned end of October; beginning of November. Interviews will be held online.

Applications are expected to be submitted electronically as one pdf-file to info.climplus@unibe.ch