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Postdoctoral research position on plural values and equity in biodiversity and ecosystem services governance

Job Summary

BC3 offers a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher Position for linked to the end of the BridgingVALUES project supported by funding from BiodivERsa (the European Biodiversity Partnership). The project started in 2023 and will finish in 2026 and is being co-coordinated by BC3.
The researcher will engage in transdisciplinary empirical research in a case study that focuses on the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, administrative capital of the Basque Country, Spain. In addition, the postdoc will collaborate with the BC3 team and the project partners towards making the different case studies of the project comparable and synthesize learning outcomes. More generally, the researcher will support the PI (Prof. Unai Pascual) to achieve the scientific objectives of the project, to develop effective and efficient task management and to collaboratively work, publish and disseminate project findings.

Job Description

Key responsibilities:

Conceptualization and empirical research to analyse impacts of EU conservation policies and related material and immaterial flows on local level stakeholders’ values and social equity.
Apply empirical methods to connect telecoupled flows (drivers) with local social-ecological outcomes, including biodiversity and ecosystem services values and social equity.
Day-to-day assistance for the management of the project’s deliverables assigned to BC3 and collaboration with other researchers of the international BridgingVALUES project consortium
Contribute to support management tasks in the projects and dissemination (including project meetings, conferences, deliverables).
Publish in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Main requirements/skills:

PhD in environmental science, geography, sustainability and development studies, political ecology, ecological economics, environmental anthropology. Other degrees might also be considered.
Demonstration of a track record of peer-reviewed publications as well as the ability to initiate and complete original research.
Background and knowledge of the literature on transdisciplinary or participatory research, social-ecological frameworks for nature conservation, environmental governance, sustainability transitions, or transformative change research, or similar and methodologies related to diverse knowledge integration.
Experience in qualitative research methods, such as content analysis, s, conducting stakeholder interviews, and participatory case study research.
Experience in empirical research experience and leading and conducting fieldwork involving stakeholder engagement.
Ability to work as team member and interact with a broad range of scientific and policy stakeholders.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish.
Desirable requirements/skills:

knowledge of global and EU conservation policies, the ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people concepts, discourses on values of biodiversity and ecosystem services, environmental justice and telecoupling.
Knowledge of Basque language.
Benefits and work environment

Interdisciplinary and inspiring work environment.
35-hour week work calendar.
30 days of vacation per year.

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