Recruitment
Postdoctoral Researcher - Geothermal Energy and CDR Activities
The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), part of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), have an exciting postdoctoral research opportunity in a project designed to to gain a better sense of potential futures for the combination of geothermal energy and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) activities in Kenya.
The postholder will be the lead researcher on the ground for this project, conducting research primarily via interviews and workshops with regional and national stakeholders in Kenya. You will hold a relevant PhD/DPhil in a relevant social science discipline (e.g. Anthropology, Geography, Policy Studies; Development, Area Studies) and have a good understanding of climate and/or energy policy, net zero frameworks, and key approaches to carbon dioxide removal. For further information regarding the project/role, please contact javier.lezaun@insis.ox.ac.uk. Job Description and further details see here.
Reporting to Jessica Omukuti and Javier Lezaun, the postholder will be a member of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), and the Oxford Net Zero (ONZ) initiative.
For information about the recruitment process, please contact recruit@anthro.ox.ac.uk (please note this inbox will not be monitored during the University’s Christmas closure period 21st December 2024 – 1st January 2025)
The deadline for applications is 12 noon on 10th January 2025.
We expect interviews to take place on the 22nd and 23rd of January 2025.
Upcoming Events
Science in a Crisis: Assembling knowledge and action in a volcanic colony - 16 December 4:00-5:30pm
Martin Mahony (University of East Anglia) and David Pyle (University of Oxford)
Seminar Room, 64 Banbury Road, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS)
This talk will present findings from the interdisciplinary Curating Crises project, which examined the hidden histories of volcano science in the English-speaking Caribbean over the course of the twentieth century. Episodes of volcanic unrest are unique moments in which different forms of knowledge – scientific, experiential, ‘local’ – are brought into the high-stakes environment of crisis management and decision-making. This talk will explore the colonial dynamics of these processes, focusing on volcanic crises in Montserrat in the 1930s and 1990s. It will explore the knowledge networks and hierarchies that shaped governmental responses, and argue that some of the deficiencies in the early response to the 1990s crisis can be explained by events in the 1930s. The case will therefore be made for a long-term perspective on hazard response, and for interdisciplinary approaches to unearthing historical lessons for the present.
Martin Mahony is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of East Anglia. His work addresses the geographies of science and technology and the relationships between knowledge, politics and power.
David Pyle is Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. His research involves reconstructing both eruptive processes and the effects of volcanism on communities who live on or around volcanoes. David has convened a number of public exhibitions on historical volcanism and is the author of Volcanoes: Encounters through the Ages.
