Below is the new RFP for SESYNC postdoctoral fellows. This position provides a valuable opportunity to pursue your own research project, co-developed with a collaborating mentor, and interact with the many outstanding interdisciplinary scholars coming through the center as part of the working groups.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities at SESYNC The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) invites applications from early career scholars (≤ four years post PhD) for two-year postdoctoral fellowships that begin August 2019. Each fellow works with a Collaborating Mentor of their choosing that extends the fellow’s current network of collaborators; the mentor may be affiliated with any organization or institution. Fellows are in residence at SESYNC full-time but are provided travel funds to interact with their mentor and attend conferences. Successful candidates will use synthesis methods to address a problem arising from, or associated with, the relationship between humans and the environment. Synthesis is a research approach that accelerates knowledge production by distilling or integrating existing data, ideas, theories, and/or methods to draw more reliable or generalizable conclusions and to reveal novel areas of study. Regardless of approach, fellows’ projects take advantage of existing data/information; SESYNC does not fund the collection of new field or survey data. Priority will be given to projects that have the potential to advance understanding of socio-environmental systems, but the synthesis may be primarily social or environmental in nature, or some mix. To learn more and apply, please visit http://sesync.us/postdocs2019.
