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Do you want to contribute to advancing carbon‑neutral heating in Positive Energy Districts across the Netherlands? As a postdoc in the EmpowerED project, you will lead research on innovative financial and ownership models, map the investment landscape for electricity and heating, and analyse real‑world cases to design inclusive, just, and scalable solutions. By working with diverse partners such as universities, companies, NGOs, communities and citizens, you help shape transformative research and impact in the Dutch energy transition.

SEI Oxford works to better understand and address intertwined climate, environment and sustainable development challenges around the world. To that end, we conduct innovative research; develop new tools, networks, and platforms; and work with an array of partners to help build capacities that are needed to address key issues. Our work seeks to be a catalyst for science-informed policymaking and decision-making.

KWI offers the 13th cohort of international fellowships for the duration of 6 months from 1 October 2026 until 31 March 2027.

The KWI fellowship program is designed for excellent researchers from the humanities, cultural studies, and the social sciences. The institute provides fellows with modern infrastructure, office space, technical support and offers a library service, event and research management as well as administrative and communicative support. The programme is open to individual researchers only; applications from groups or teams will not be considered.

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University invites applications for a 20-month full-time postdoctoral researcher to join a new project entitled “Paternalism and Discrimination: Moral Dilemmas in Combatting Group Inequalities” funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project is headed by Associate Professor Viki Lyngby Hvid whom the postdoc will be working closely together with. The starting date is flexible and subject to mutual agreement but expected to be between June 2026 and October 2026.

The Danish School of Education (DPU) at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, invites applications for a fixed-term, two-year postdoctoral position associated with the AUFF-funded research project SENSE: Sensory Education in Children with Multiple Impairments.

The position is full-time (37 hours per week) and begins on 1 March 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position is based within the Department of Educational Psychology at DPU’s Emdrup campus in Copenhagen (see the description of DPU below).

The TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, invites applications for 1-2 positions as postdoc in educational research within the centres research programs (see https://childresearch.au.dk/en/about-us). The right candidate(s) will be employed at the relevant institute (Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences or at School of Communication and Culture).

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University invites applications for four full-time, three-year postdoctoral positions in SLOMODEMO (Slow-Motion Democracy)—an ERC Advanced Grant project (project no. 101198983), led by professor Kees van Kersbergen.

Start date is preferably 1 September 2026 but is flexible by mutual agreement.

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University invites applications for one full-time, three-year postdoctoral position in the ERC Starting Grant project EQUILIBRIUM — Changing for the Better: Escaping Negative Equilibria in State-Citizen Relations — led by Associate Professor Jan P. Vogler.
The starting date is 1 August 2026 or 1 September 2026 (with further flexibility based on mutual agreement).

The 2nd call for applications will be open 01 December 2025 until 28 February 2026, with the next cohort starting in 2026.

More details will be available here closer to the time.

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