Dear gep-ed colleagues, friends, The ERC-funded Global Methane Politics project at the University of Leeds is looking to recruit 3 postdoctoral researchers and 2 PhD students, to start October 2026. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a big team and help shape research on this topic. Links are below. Do please share with your students/researchers.
Details of the 3 (x 3 year) postdoctoral researcher positions (on the methane politics of livestock, oil and gas, and solid waste respectively) are here<https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=ESLPO1108>. Details of the 2 fully-funded PhD positions (on the methane politics of coal and wastewater respectively) are here<https://phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2341-global-methane-politics>. Same deadline - 15 February. And here, as background, is Barbados PM Mia Motley<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/16/ozone-layer-moment-methane-emissions-oil-gas-industry-climate-tipping-points> on why methane is so important. Best wishes Jan Jan Selby Professor of International Politics and Climate Change School of Politics and International Studies University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Office: 13.41 Social Science Building Home page<https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/2557/professor-jan-selby> Personal website <https://politicsecology.wordpress.com/> Latest articles: ‘Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable’, Env. Research Letters (2025, with I. Boas et al) here<https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adfdfd/meta> ‘A global review of climate change and social protection in protracted crisis contexts’, Institute of Dev Studies (2025, with C. Holland-Szyp) here<https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/a-global-review-of-climate-change-and-social-protection-in-protracted-crisis-contexts/> Latest book: Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security (Cambridge, 2022; with G. Daoust and C. Hoffmann) here<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/divided-environments/0621F20A4464C4E05BF76980BBF25D3F> PI of European Research Council project Global Methane Politics<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101198691> (2026-30) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/D366F68D-052C-4B67-9463-659D91D09B7A%40leeds.ac.uk.
