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  • Job postings board of interest: conservation-careers.com
  • Risk Treatment Program Lead in Vancouver
  • Job offers at the University of Osnabrück | Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems | Deadline August 6
  • Postdoctoral Researcher on the governance of decentralized renewable energy systems | Arizona State University
  • Open-rank research position (PhD Student or Postdoctoral Researcher) in Environmental Governance and Global Development (80-100%) | Deadline May 31st 2024
  • Two postdoctoral positions | Political Ecology and Environmental Justice | Databases and Geographic Information Systems | Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) | Deadline May 31 2024
  • PhD Fellowship in the Geography of Sustainability Transitions
  • Social Science Research Fellow – College of Life and Environmental Sciences -University of Birmingham UK
  • Research Associate (f_m_x) in Geopolitics of Energy Transformation: Sustainability Governance in the Hydrogen Sector | Research Institute for Sustainability (rifs-potsdam.de)
  • Postdoc in ERC project ‘Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America’ – Medellín
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  • Graduate Mentor Recruitment for Undergraduate Research at UBC with the Research EXperience (REX) | Deadline August 5th
  • Grad course still open in SCARP: PLAN 548R
  • Climate Justice Research Assistant with Naomi Klein | Deadline July 2
  • Project Manager for a multi-year, international and interdisciplinary project focused on housing and climate justice | CCJ @ UBC | Deadline June 19
  • 2024/2025 Solutions Scholar Program | $10k for grad students looking to apply their scholarly research skills to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and/or education | Deadline June 14
  • MSc Opportunity with the Urban Natures Lab @ UBC
  • PhD position in Dublin City University | Deadline Friday June 14
  • SCIE 113 TA job posting | UBC | Rolling Deadline
  • WEST 2024 Conference, “Waves of Knowing Water: Progress through Collaborations” | June 12-14 | Registration ends May 31
  • Diary of Travelling rivers launch May 31 (in Netherlands and online) |
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  • Understanding the Lived Experiences of New Canadians Visiting Parks | Webinar July 4
  • Summer Climate Conversations | July 24 and August 21
  • Museum of Anthropology’s Reopening | Thursday, June 13 at 5 pm | Free admission
  • May 27 | Mining for a Sustainable Future: A Symposium on Responsible Supply Chains
  • ISGP Nexus Conference [April 24]
  • Global Indigenous Leadership in Genomics Symposium (GILGS’24) May 7-9 2024
  • CEREMONIAL FIRE | xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden, UBC Farm | April 29th | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
  • CPPCL Webinar | Balancing the Narrative: Communications Guidelines for Indigenous-led Conservation | April 10 | Online |1 – 2pm EDT
  • Interview Seminars for Assistant Professor, Fisheries & Indigenous Food Sovereignty (CRC Tier II)
  • Vancouver Clean Energy Forum | Saturday April 6th from 10 AM – 4 PM | Center for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) on Campus. 
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