Postdoc for the Centre for Law, Sustainability & Justice at the Department of Law, [xxxxx]

Postdoc for the Centre for Law, Sustainability & Justice at the Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark

A postdoc position will be available as of 1 September 2022 or by further agreement at the Centre for Law, Sustainability & Justice at the Department of Law, at the University of Southern Denmark. The duration of the position is one year. The place of work is the Odense Campus of the University of Southern Denmark.

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

We have initiated a new research focus concerning legal perspectives related to the SDGs and sustainability in a wider sense. On the basis of SDG 16 and anchored in a new Centre for Law, Sustainability & Justice (CLS&J), we critically explore and challenge various legal and regulatory aspects related to sustainability.

Research at the centre targets 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 welcome applications from applicants who want to help implement our vision. Working with the head of the Centre for Law, Sustainability & Justice and other researchers, you will become a part of our research team forming the mainstay for meeting our ambitions for the Centre.

The postdoc project will form part of a collective research project comprising a comparative analysis of regulatory strategies for handling the climate crisis and the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The overall project is led by the head of the Centre for Law, Sustainability & Justice and encompasses complementary sub-projects under the overall research question: “How is the regulation of the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic handled by Danish, EU and UN institutions in regard to shaping the conduct of citizens and organisations; what determines societal buy-in; and what are the implications of this for understanding the correlations between SDG 16 and the other SDGs”. The overall project seeks to contribute to knowledge on how social science, natural science (climate) information and health science (COVID-19) information is received, understood, consumed, transformed and applied by decision-makers with regulatory competences; which and how non-judicial linguistic codes advance or impede the legitimacy and understanding of regulatory needs among regulatory and other societal actors; how regulatory needs determined by social, natural and/or health science are transformed into new obligations for citizens, businesses and public organisations; how and whether these new obligations are accepted; and how linguistic codes advance or impede the acceptance.

We offer
In addition to interesting research tasks, we offer

• Attractive working conditions with flexible working plans
• A professional setting with high potential for academic interaction and development
• A pleasant social environment with good colleagues

English is the official working language at the Centre. However, according to the Department’s policy, employees must be willing to study Danish for everyday use if they 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 for Law, Sustainability & Justice,
Professor Karin Buhmann
Mail: [email protected]

For further information on the Department, its strategy and activities, please visit the department’s website. Information on the CLS&J is available at https://www.SDU.dk/en/forskning/forskningsenheder/samf/clsj

Application, salary, etc.
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.

Application
Your application must contain the following:

• A motivated application
• Your curriculum vitae
• Certificates/diplomas (Master and PhD degree)
• A comprehensive list of publications including the publications attached to the application
• An overview of your research communication and teaching activities
• A research plan related the research project that you propose, including an account of specific research activities that you envisage, and publishing plans relating to these
• 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
• Please include the assessment committee’s written evaluation of your PhD dissertation
• If you submit co-authored publications, a co-author declaration for each must be attached in the relevant pdf file, stating your contribution to the publication

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

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

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.

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.

Once the assessment committee have completed their assessment, each of the applicants concerned will receive the evaluation concerning him/her. As part of the overall assessment of the applicant’s qualifications, an interview may be applied.

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.

Read the guideline for applicants

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