Vacancy Professor Disaster and Crisis Studies

Within the chair group Sociology of Development and Change (SDC) there is a vacancy for a personal professor with demonstrated excellence in teaching and research in the area of crisis and disaster studies. This position contributes to the chair group by focusing on crises and disasters as events that are both interfering with and integral to contemporary processes of development and social change. The work at the chair group is characterized by its multi-disciplinary character and its ethnographic approach. The candidate will develop a research agenda focussing on challenges related to natural hazards, conflicts, and their effects against the background of climate change, shifting rural – urban relationships, migration and growing urban complexity. As these issues will increasingly play out in highly populated areas and peri-urban settings, they will lead to key conceptual and policy challenges related to coping mechanisms, resilience, (aid) interventions, governance and disaster preparedness.
Vacancy Personal Professor DIS 2014