MSCA-PF: Joint application at the University of Granada. Department of Contemporary History

Professor Antonio Ortega Santos, from the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Granada, welcomes postdoctoral candidates interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) in 2023 at this University. Please note that applicants must comply with the Mobility Rule (for more information about the 2023 call, please consult:(http://sl.ugr.es/0d7F).

Brief description of the institution:

The University of Granada (UGR) was founded in 1531 and is one of the largest and most important universities in Spain. With over 51,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and almost 3,000 members of staff, the UGR offers over 90 undergraduate degrees, 160 master’s degrees (8 of which are international double degrees) and 28 doctoral programmes via its 124 departments and nearly 50 centers. Accordingly, the UGR offers one of the most extensive and diverse ranges of higher education programmes in Spain.

The UGR has been awarded with the "Human Resources Excellence in Research (HRS4R)", which reflects the institution’s commitment to continuously improving its human resource policies in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The UGR is also internationally renowned for its excellence in diverse research fields and ranked among the top Spanish universities in a variety of ranking criteria, such as national R&D projects, fellowships awarded, publications, and international funding.

The UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the Shanghai Top 500 ranking - Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The 2022 edition of the ARWU places the UGR in 201-300th position in the world and as the 2-5 highest ranked universities in Spain (http://sl.ugr.es/0d7D), reaffirming its position as an institution at the forefront of national and international research. The UGR stands out in the specialties of Library & Information Science (position 38); Food Science & Technology (30) and Hospitality & Tourism Management (51-75), according to the latest edition of this prestigious ranking by specialties (http://sl.ugr.es/0bSp). A little lower in the ranking, the UGR also stands out in Mathematics (76-100).

Additionally, the UGR has 9 researchers who are at the top of the Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) list (http://sl.ugr.es/0d7E), most of these related to the area of Computer Science. It is also well recognized for its web presence (http://sl.ugr.es/0a6i), being positioned at 42th place in the top 200 Universities in Europe.

Internationally, the University of Granada is firmly committed to its participation in the calls of the Framework Programme of the European Union. For the duration of the last Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, the UGR obtained a total 120 projects with a total funding of around 29,4 million euros.  For the current Framework Programme, Horizon Europe, the UGR has obtained 38 projects, so far, with total funding around 11 € million.

Brief description of the Centre/Research Group:

STAND (South Training Action Network of Decoloniality) is a Consolidated Research Group with the highest score within the Andalusian Scientific Research System and Partner Institution of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). It is a group with more than 15 years of experience focused on work related to socio-environmental issues, leading international projects in EU calls (Memola Project), H2020 and national Research and Development projects. It is a Research Group with collaborating researchers in National Centres (ICREA, ICTA, etc.) and International Centres (Georgetown University-USA, UNAM- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad de Quilmes -Argentina, Fundación Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, La Habana Cuba, UNCUYO IANIGLA Argentina, UNICAUCA-Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Chile, Centro de Historia Universidad de Lisboa -Portugal, Universidad Isla Reunión-France).

This research group has developed projects that focus on finding socio-environmental solutions to problems arising from the current development model, designing responses to problems arising from climate change: water and energy scarcity, design of community processes of natural resource management for socio-food security and interference in national and international public policies on territorial sustainability of terrestrial and oceanic systems.

Project description:

In the field of research, the STAND Research Group focuses on working on a series of solutions and responses to the challenges posed by climate change and socio-environmental vulnerability. To this end, we propose to work on solutions to issues related to socio-environmental vulnerability in territories marked by the fragility of their ecosystems in the face of the impact of the energy and material extractivist model. To this end, we use MESMIS and Social Metabolism as methodological research tools that we apply in territories of the Global South to assess the sustainability of landscapes and territories in the fight against the negative externalities of existing development models. 
To this end, we propose Socio-environmental Vulnerability to Climate Change as an emerging line of work that can bring together interdisciplinary CVs from the fields of Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology and other fields of social and environmental sciences. 

This field of research can be deployed in these axes of work:

1. Climate Change and Socio-environmental Resilience: Responses from Degrowth as Socio-energetic Transition towards another better world.

2. Climate Change and Socio-environmental Resilience: Agro-ecologies and Food Sovereignty.

3. Climate Change and Socio-environmental Resilience: Oceans and Seas as Biocultural Repositories.

4. Climate Change and Socio-Environmental Resilience: Digital Environmental Humanities to create a Citizen Science.

Research Area:

☒ Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

☒ Environment and Geosciences (ENV)

For a correct evaluation of your candidature, please send the documents below to Professor Antonio Ortega Santos, email: aortegas@ugr.es

• CV
• Letter of recommendation (optional)