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The Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS) seeks to foster cross-disciplinary cooperation between distinguished young scholars in the field of sustainability research. The Academy’s objective is to provide an institutional structure that will enable early-career researchers to foster multidisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, to start collaborative projects, and to engage with the general public. The Young Academy is self-organised by its members, with support by the FRIAS team.

The School of Advanced Study(Opens in new window) has been awarded funding to scope a programme of activities embedding inclusion, participation and engagement in research in the Humanities.

The overexploitation of wildlife is a key threat to biodiversity, exemplified by pangolins. The University of Oxford is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant to play a key role in the multi-year international research project, “Operation Pangolin: Unifying Diverse Data Streams to Redefine Species Conservation.” The postholder will be an experienced social scientist, with expertise in conducting fieldwork and data analysis to understand social-ecological systems, including institutional arrangements.

We are looking to appoint a Researcher in the Ethics of Global Psychiatry based within the Neuroscience, Ethics and Society (NEUROSEC) Team in the Department of Psychiatry and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH).

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The Department of Sociology seeks to appoint two Postdoctoral Research Fellows (PRFs) in Sociology, commencing in September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. One position is intended for a researcher with a primarily quantitative focus and the other with a primarily qualitative focus.

The Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford proposes to elect three Visiting Fellows each academic year. The Visiting Fellowship is intended to offer an established scholar in an AI-related field who graduated with their doctorate at least 5 years ago the opportunity to engage in a project related to the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. The length of tenure of the fellowship is one academic term (three months). Applications are encouraged from candidates from all countries and all universities.

A Postdoctoral Fellowship is available at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo (UiO). The appointment is a fulltime position for a period of three years. Depending on the competence of the applicant and the needs of the department, there is the possibility of adding teaching duties to the position, with an upward limit of one additional year. Postdoctoral fellows who are appointed for a period of 3,5 to four years are expected to acquire basic pedagogical competency in the course of their fellowship period. The fellowship is planned to start at the latest by the end of 2024.