Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in the BirdEcon Project
Location: University of Lodz, Poland
Start Date: September 2025
Salary: 140,000 PLN per year (gross)
Job Description
We are looking for a new member to join the Social-Ecological Systems Analysis Lab and specifically the international team working on the BirdEcon project (“A bird’s-eye view of how the natural environment fits into economics: Searching for alternative paradigms by analysing bird conservation narratives”), funded by the Polish National Science Centre.
This employment is for 3 years, postdoctoral researcher, full-time, starting – tentatively – in September 2025 (the exact date can be negotiated).
The successful candidate will be responsible for quantitative analysis within the BirdEcon project and the processing of survey data. This includes data from the surveys carried out among the general public and birdwatchers in three European countries, regarding their environmental values and pro-environmental behaviours.
In addition, the successful candidate will also contribute to the conceptual work on reforming the way the environment is framed in economics, referring to multiple values of nature. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to get involved in many other research tasks undertaken in the Social-Ecological Systems Analysis Lab.