UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Environmental law, indigenous law and water governance. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Professor Margherita Paola Poto. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Environmental law, indigenous law and water governance as presented by Professor Poto:

Margherita Poto focuses her research and academic activities along internationally acknowledged research lines, moving from a unidisciplinary approach (law) to cross-disciplinary, co-created, and community-based research. Her work critically reflects on the colonialism of knowledge production, explores the co-existence of science and indigenous knowledge, and addresses the gap between science and law. Her teaching portfolio includes innovative approaches to administrative law, ecological and emotional education and research, indigenous methodology, public law for economics, critical legal thinking, ethics, and fraud. She also works in close collaboration with interdisciplinary experts in environmental law, planetary health, indigenous law, and methodology, as well as emotional literacy for all. Currently, she is actively seeking candidates from indigenous groups and underrepresented communities to join her research team.

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to margherita.poto@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.