Postdoctoral Position in Law: Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Social Contract in the European Union at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

Job title:

Postdoctoral Position in Law: Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Social Contract in the European Union at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

Company:

KU – JUR – Fakultetet, Co Sondre Campus

Job description

The at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen is seeking applications for a postdoctoral position in climate change and the social contract in the EU.The position has an 18-month employment period starting 1 December 2024 and is part of the EU Horizon-RIA Research Project .The faculty actively supports the effort to learn Danish.Required qualifications
The position requires academic qualifications PhD, JSD or equivalent degree in law or in another social science discipline, provided the applicant can also document sufficient qualifications in law. All applicants are expected to be able to use English as the working language (written and spoken). Successful candidates will demonstrate a clear potential to deliver high quality peer-reviewed research publications.In the overall assessment, emphasis will be placed on the applicant’s research potential. Special emphasis will be placed on the applicant’s ambition to develop and implement new research ideas, which may have an international impact. Furthermore, the Faculty places emphasis on the applicant’s interest and preferably, prior experience, in working with other researchers to conduct collective research and welcomes the applicant’s proven ability to make a valuable contribution in this regard.Salary and terms of employment
The appointment is temporary and will be made in accordance with the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (Akademikernes Centralorganisation, AC). In addition to the basic salary, you will receive an annual supplement per month and a total contribution to your pension fund equal 17.1 % of your salary and annual supplement is paid. It is possible to negotiate further salary supplements.In addition to the above, the researchers will receive yearly DKK 25,000 research allowance that can be utilized for work related expenses such as books needed to conduct the research, conference fees, research stays etc.The position includes research and some administrative responsibilities.Read more about the qualification requirements for postdocs in .Application
Letter of motivation, appendices and the submitted research publications (including papers, articles and books), must be written in English. The application will be rejected if not all the required documents are submitted.It is essential that you fill out all the mandatory fields in the electronic application even though the info is already stated in your CV, application, publication, or other material you may find relevant to upload. The completed fields will be screened during the shortlisting and assessment process and in order to generate your final assessment, which we will send to you after the assessment work is finalized.The application MUST include the following nine (9) elements:

• Letter of motivation (a one-page document explaining the reasons for applying.)
• Curriculum vitae
• Research project. Applications should include a proposal for a research project to be completed during the post-doctoral period. Proposals should be no more than four pages long. The proposal should demonstrate the capacity to develop a postdoctoral project, identifying the relevant methodological tools to achieve the outlined project.
• Diplomas, PhD or JSD diploma or alternatively a document showing that the applicant submitted or will submit a dissertation.
• Publication list (Complete, numbered list of publications)
• Academic references, if available (please upload under “other relevant material”)
• A maximum of five (5) scientific publications that the applicant wishes to have included in the assessment, of which no more than one (1) may be a monograph. Applicants, who have written a PhD or JSD thesis or equivalent, must always submit the complete thesis (if the thesis is written in Danish, English, Swedish or Norwegian) and the written assessment of the thesis as a part of submitted publications.
• If citing work where the applicant has been a co-author, a co-author declaration, which addresses the applicant’s share of these works, must be submitted. Material that has not yet been published can be submitted. However, please indicate if this is the case.

In addition to the material which the applicant wishes to be included in the assessment, the assessment committee may require further material to assess the applicant. It is the applicant’s responsibility to provide such supplementary material, should this be requested.Application procedure
Upload letter of motivation, appendices and the research publications electronically using the link below. We advise you to have the above-mentioned documents ready before you begin to fill out your online application, and it is essential that all required documents are enclosed.Applications must be addressed to the Associate Dean of Research and uploaded electronically.An automatically generated message is sent out acknowledging receipt of the uploaded application.Applicants will be kept informed about the process of the application procedure on a regular basis via email.Following the application deadline, the Associate Dean of Research selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the appointments committee. Applicants are selected on the basis of an overall assessment of the applicants that best match the recruitment needs of the faculty as described in this advertisement for the post. This is compared with the applicant’s research and teaching profile as set out in the application, CV incl. list of publication, teaching portfolio and any research/development plan. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment by an expert assessment committee. Selected applicants are notified of the composition of the committee and when the committee has completed its assessment, each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to the applicants themselves.University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding society and therefore encourages all interested parties regardless of personal background to apply for the position.Contact
For further information about the positions, please contact Associate Professor Beatriz Martinez Romera, e-mail: .Further information about the recruitment process is available from HR, e-mail: .The application deadline is 1 September 2024 at 23:59 GMT+1.Applications received after the deadline has expired will not be accepted.If your application does not include all the required supporting documents your application can be rejected and not be considered by the assessment committee.The Faculty of Law is one of six faculties at the University of Copenhagen. The Faculty carries out research, education and knowledge dissemination within the area of law. Research is partly organized in research centres and groups with focus on thematic areas of interest. The Faculty employs about 135 full time researchers and approx. 60 PhD students as well as approx. 80 administrative staff members. In addition, approx. 400 part-time lecturers teach on the legal programmes on which approx. 4,500 students are enrolled. See the Faculty website: for more information.

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København

Job date

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 22:44:35 GMT

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