Postdoctoral Research Fellowiship in Landscape Ecology
Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University
(ref.no. 463-15-09)

The Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Science at Stockholm University. The department has 120 employees and approximately 1500 students. The main research disciplines are Geomorphology, Glaciology, Climatology, Quaternary Geology, Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Geographical Data Processing, Ecological Geography and Tropical Geography. Teaching is oriented towards geography, earth sciences, geosciences and environmental protection.

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Every year UNU-IAS (United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies) offers PhD and Postdoctoral fellowships to provide young scholars and policy-makers, especially from the developing world, with a multi-disciplinarily context within which to pursue advanced research and training that is of professional interest to the successful applicant and of direct relevance to the research agenda of their selected UNU-IAS or UNU-ISP programme.

The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) is now open. About 8-10 fellowships will be awarded in total in 2009 for three types of fellowships:

• UNU-IAS PhD Fellowships
• UNU-IAS Postdoctoral Fellowships
• JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowships

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The department of Cognitive Linguistics at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, invites applications for a postdoc job position in German linguistics at the level of a research fellow, commencing April 1, 2009, at the earliest. The appointment period is three years. The appointment is renewable. The general restrictions of the German ‘Wissenschaftszeitv ertragsgesetz’ and ‘Hessisches Hochschulgesetz’ apply.

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A two-year research and teaching appointment in Sociolinguistics from October 2009 for an outstanding academic at an early stage of his or her career.

These fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a wider Oxford University initiative which is designed: to provide an intensive and supported career development opportunity for outstanding academics at an early stage of their career; and to promote equality of opportunity by helping to create a more diverse pool of potential candidates for future academic posts at Oxford.

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