Postdocs for a new research focus at the Department of Law, [xxxxx]

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At the Department of Law, a number of postdoc positions will be available as of 1 October 2021 or by further agreement. The place of work is at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.

At the University of Southern Denmark, we want to create value for and together with society by working with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, at the Department of Law, we have a vision – by means of the legal discipline – to participate in shaping and impacting on the society of the future and to contribute to creating a sustainable world, e.g. through new and relevant legal research results of high quality.

Consequently, we have initiated a new research focus concerning the legal themes and issues relating to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. On the basis of SDG 16 and by means of a new centre addressing law and sustainability, we want to critically explore and challenge (a number of) the legal aspects regarding the Sustainable Development Goals.

The research of the centre will focus on three areas:

  • Legal scopes, covering the themes related to institutions in a wide sense
  • Physical scopes, covering the themes related to climate, the environment and natural resources
  • Social scopes, covering the themes related to welfare and inequality

We anticipate an application from you who want to help implement our vision. Along with the head of centre, you will become a part of our research focus and the team forming the mainstay as for meeting our ambitions for the centre.
The length of the positions is one or two years.

One of the vacant positions will be associated with the collective research project described below under a). We anticipate applications for this specific project (a) below) as well as applications for an individual research project formulated by the applicant (b) below).

About you

We expect you to

  • Have a relevant PhD degree suited for the research focus indicated in a) and b) below.
  • Have an interest in law and in the interaction between law and politics, law and the sciences of climate and environment and/or law and sociological approaches to society’s sustainable development
  • Have experience in research communication and/or teaching
  • Want to participate in research collaborations
  • Be curious, inventive and in possession of good interpersonal skills
  • Be able to define a relevant and ambitious research question within a) or b) below:
    • a) a contribution to a collective project which is a comparative analysis of regulation strategies as regards handling the climate crisis as well as the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is led by the head of centre and encompasses several complementary sub-projects under the overall research question: “How is the regulation of the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic handled in Danish, EU and UN institutions as for the behaviour of citizens and organisations, what determines the support, and how can this collectively contribute to understanding the correlations between SDG 16 and the other SDGs”. The project seeks to contribute to the knowledge on how social scientific and natural scientific (climate) information as well as health scientific (COVID-19) information is received by decision-makers with regulatory competences; which and how nonjudicial linguistic codes support or counteract the understanding of regulatory needs among legal and other societal actors; how the regulatory needs determined by social scientific, natural scientific and health scientific matters are translated into new duties for citizens, businesses and public organizations; how and whether these new duties are accepted; and how linguistic codes support or counteract the acceptance. Your project description is expected to use socio-legal, sociological, politological and/or communication theoretical methods in order to answer an independent research question in relation to the overall research question.


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    • b) an individual research project within one or more of the above three tracks (1, 2 and/or 3). We particularly anticipate project proposals on climate regulation, including regulation at the crossroads between law and politics or law and sociology in a Danish, European and/or global context.


We offer

In addition to interesting research tasks, we offer

  • Good working conditions with flexible working plans
  • A professional setting with high potential for feedback and development
  • A good social environment with good colleagues

English is the official working language at the center. However, there is a policy at the department that you must be willing to pick up Danish for everyday use if you do not already speak Danish or one of the other Scandinavian languages. The University of Southern Denmark offers Danish language courses.

Further information concerning the positions is available from:

Head of centre Karin Buhmann
Phone + 45 65 50 94 22
Mail: [email protected]

Further information on the department, its strategy and activities on the department’s website.

Application procedure.

Appointment to the position requires a PhD or equivalent and will be in accordance with the salary agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.

Research will be predominant in the position. Teaching assignments can be agreed individually. Furthermore, other types of assignments may occur to a limited degree.

The University determines the distribution of the various assignments. The weighting of the different assignments may vary over time.

Upgrading of pedagogical qualifications is not a part of this position. Employment as Postdoc alone will thus not qualify to appointment as Associate Professor/Senior Researcher.

Your application must include:
  • A motivated application
  • Your curriculum vitae
  • Certificates/Diplomas (Master and PhD degree)
  • A comprehensive list of publications including the publications attached to the application
  • A summary of your research communication and teaching activities
  • Your PhD dissertation and up to two academic publications based on which you wish to be evaluated. Please attach a pdf file for each publication.
    • If there are co-authors on a publication, a co-author declaration must be attached in the relevant pdf file, stating your contribution to the publication.
    • Please attach your PhD dissertation as a publication and include the written evaluation of your PhD dissertation

  • A research plan related to a) or b) above, including an account of specific research activities and publishing plans relating to these. It can be one project or several research activities within the specific theme. Please state to which theme your plan relates. Please state whether your project is of one or two years.

Documents which are not in Danish, Norwegian or Swedish must be translated into English. SDU may discard applications which are incomplete regarding the above-mentioned criteria.

Assessment of applications will be done under existing Appointment Order for universities.

Applications will be assessed by an assessment committee. The committee may request additional information, and if so, it is the responsibility of the applicant to provide the necessary material.

When the deadline for submitting applications is met, a number of applications are selected for an academic evaluation (shortlisting), based on an overall assessment of which of the applicants based on their professional and research profile match the job description the best. Once the committee have completed their assessment, each of the applicants concerned will receive the evaluation concerning him/her. Thereafter, a number of applicants are invited to a job interview.

According to the University of Southern Denmark’s internal guidelines, there must be at least three qualified applicants to a position before it can be filled.

Applications that are incomplete with regard to the above requirements will not be assessed by the committee.

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Applications must be submitted electronically using the link "Apply online". Uploaded files must be in Adobe PDF (unlocked) or Word format.

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Each field can only contain a single file of max. 10 Mb.


Information og data

Denne ledige stilling har jobtypen "Forsker", og befinder sig i kategorien "Sundhed og forskning".

Arbejdsstedet er beliggende i Odense M.

Jobbet er oprettet på vores service den 2.8.2021, men kan have været deaktiveret og genaktiveret igen.

Dagligt opdateret: Dette job opdateres dagligt ud fra jobudbyderens hjemmeside via vores søgemaskineteknologi og er aktivt lige nu.
  • Forsker
  • Odense M
  • Torsdag den 30. september 2021

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