PostDoc for research about corporate accountability in global supply chains

at  FriedrichAlexanderUniversitt ErlangenNrnberg

Your workplace
The chair “International Business, Society and Sustainability” the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) aims to advance the research frontier by addressing critical themes in interdisciplinary social science research related to sustainable development, business and human rights and environmental governance. Our teaching and research activities revolve around the question of how international business relationships could become more just and sustainable. For discussing this question, we draw on and contribute to different theoretical debates (e.g., environmental justice, business and human rights, political ecology, corporate accountability, sustainability governance of global supply chains) and use diverse mixes of methods (e.g., semi-structured interviews, participatory observation, document analysis, surveys, discourse analysis, transdisciplinary methods, network analysis). As sociopolitical processes and governance arrangements at different scales interact with and shape each other, our research focuses on different scales and cross-scalar linkages.

Our benefits

• Regular promotion to the next level and increase in salary pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement for the public service of the German Länder (TV-L) or remuneration pursuant to the Bavarian Public Servants Remuneration Act (BayBesG) plus an additional annual bonus
• 30 days annual leave at five working days per week with additional free days on December 24 and 31
• Occupational pension scheme and asset accumulation savings scheme
• To have a background in sustainability governance, extractive industries and global supply chains from a social science perspective
• Advanced research experience, in particular in-depth empirical and theoretical knowledge and publications on research findings
• Excellent skills in written and spoken Spanish and academic English
• Ability to work in an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers
• Ability to work independently
• Ability and interest to communicate research findings to wider audiences beyond academia
• Passion for teaching and the ability to inspire students and to supervise bachelor and master students
• Experience in acquiring third-party funding (an advantage; not necessarily expected)

Your Tasks

• Conducting comparative case studies on the mining of critical raw materials in Chile and Colombia or Argentina
• Publishing research results in collaboration with the team and as the lead author in peer-reviewed journals
• Presenting research findings at international conferences
• Employing various research methods, including semi-structured interviews, surveys, and participant observation; openness to innovative methods such as transdisciplinary approaches, GIS methods, or experiments
• Supporting teaching and supervising bachelor’s and master’s theses at the chair
• Collaborating with and visiting cooperation partners at Stockholm University

Your Profile

• Completed academic university degree (Master/Diplom [Uni]) and PhD with very good grades in social sciences, such as political science, human geography, development studies, anthropology or a comparable field of study with a focus on sustainability governance and/or global supply chains
• To have a background in sustainability governance, extractive industries and global supply chains from a social science perspective
• Advanced research experience, in particular in-depth empirical and theoretical knowledge and publications on research findings
• Excellent skills in written and spoken Spanish and academic English
• Ability to work in an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers
• Ability to work independently
• Ability and interest to communicate research findings to wider audiences beyond academia
• Passion for teaching and the ability to inspire students and to supervise bachelor and master students
• Experience in acquiring third-party funding (an advantage; not necessarily expected)

Supplementary description
There is the possibility of an extension, depending on suitability.
Application deadline
2025-02-14
Title
PostDoc for research about corporate accountability in global supply chains (m/f/d)
Job start date
2025-05-01
Payment
E13
Working time
full time
Weekly working hours
40,00
Temporary Contract
yes
Period of Temporary Contract
25 Months
Further general conditions
Work location
Findelgasse 7
90402 Nürnberg
Contact
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor del Carpio
Tel.: +49 (0)9115302-95656

• Conducting comparative case studies on the mining of critical raw materials in Chile and Colombia or Argentina
• Publishing research results in collaboration with the team and as the lead author in peer-reviewed journals
• Presenting research findings at international conferences
• Employing various research methods, including semi-structured interviews, surveys, and participant observation; openness to innovative methods such as transdisciplinary approaches, GIS methods, or experiments
• Supporting teaching and supervising bachelor’s and master’s theses at the chair
• Collaborating with and visiting cooperation partners at Stockholm Universit