Postdoctoral Researcher in Blue Planet Governance

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This is a three-year position supported by two externally funded research projects: the ERC-funded project ProblemShifting and the EU Horizon project MAR-CO2. Together, these projects create a common research agenda around how emerging climate and sustainability interventions can be understood, assessed, and governed in ways that account for their risks, trade-offs, and wider consequences. The research will have a strong focus on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) as a timely and policy-relevant case, while also allowing scope to examine related technological interventions with planetary-scale implications.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of global sustainability governance, ocean governance, international law, international relations, science and technology studies, and mCDR policy. You will be part of an interdisciplinary research environment and will work closely with the project teams directed by Rak Kim and Miranda Boettcher.

Your main responsibility will be to take a leading role in collaborative research that contributes to the objectives and deliverables of both projects. This will include producing high-quality academic outputs, as well as contributing to project reports, transdisciplinary workshops, participatory foresight scenario development processes, stakeholder engagement, and dissemination activities.

Your responsibilities will include:

• conducting collaborative research within the ProblemShifting and MAR-CO2 projects
• analysing governance, legal, policy, and institutional developments related to ocean-based climate mitigation, marine carbon dioxide removal, geoengineering and/or global sustainability governance
• collecting and analysing qualitative data, such as policy documents, legal texts, interviews, institutional records, scientific reports, and stakeholder materials
• contributing to project deliverables, academic publications and other research outputs
• organizing project meetings, workshops, conferences, and stakeholder activities
• contributing to a limited amount of teaching and/or student supervision, where this supports your academic development and aligns with your expertise