Doctoral student in Economic History – Energy and England's Little Ice Age - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Assigned duties

Those appointed to doctoral studentship shall primarily devote themselves to their studies, aimed toresult in a doctoral degree. Work carried out during the studentship consists of participation in researchprojects as well as successful participation in postgraduate (third-cycle) courses. Those appointed todoctoral studentships may also work, to a limited extent, with educational tasks and administration at the Department of Economic history. However, duties of this kind may not comprise of more than 20 percent of a full time post.

The PhD position is linked to the VR funded research project: The Little Ice Age Energy Transition.

The PhD student will work rather independently in this project under the supervision of Professor Astrid Kander.

Eligibility / Admission requirements

A person meets the general admission requirements for third-cycle courses and study programmes if heor she has:

• Been awarded a second-cycle degree; or
• Satisfied the requirements for courses comprising of at least 240 credits of which at least 60 creditswere awarded in the second-cycle; or
• Acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad.

(Higher Education Ordinance, Chapter 7, Section 39)

Specific admission requirements for doctoral studies in each subject are specified in the relevant general syllabus, available at https://www.lusem.lu.se/study/phd

Other requirements

A proficient level of English is required in both written and oral communication. Proficient Swedish language skills are desirable but not required.

Basis of assessment

Admittance of a doctoral student is based on an assessment of the candidate’s ability to benefit from third-cycle studies, see the general syllabus for third-cycle studies, available at www.lusem.lu.se/study/phd.

The applicant’s ability to benefit from third-cycle studies and research will primarily be assessed on the basis of academic results from the first and second cycle.

Applicant’s general competence:

• Quality and content of previous written work, such as theses or published articles.
• Ability to participate actively in the Department’s research environment.
• Ability to perform independent scientific work.
• Dissertation plan.
• Familiarity with concepts and historical data on environmental factor flows and social metabolism.
• Data management skills and experience in working with large individual-level databases.
• Proficiency in written and oral communication.
• Ability to use British source material from the 16th century onwards.
• A second-cycle (or corresponding) degree in a historical discipline.
• Relevant additional educational background, for example in human ecology, natural sciences, etc.
• Other relevant experiences for third-cycle education, such as work experience.

We are interested in applicants who can collaborate with the Department’s energy group by broadening its expertise conceptually from energy history and trade-embedded energy towards human ecological and climate history. We thus favour applicants with a strong commitment and interest in environmental economic history, and documented experience in relevant areas such as human ecology and environmental factor flows.

Project

The project—"The causes and consequences of the Little Ice Age energy transition”—investigates, first, the effects of long- (millennia) and short-term (decades) climate change on early modern England, specifically how the cooler, drier, and windier climate during the Little Ice Age relates to the fossil energy transition in London after about 1550. Second, it investigates the relation of this transition to real-wage developments compared to trade-embedded environmental factor flows. The project relies on the Department’s expertise in energy history and trade-embedded energy, but aims to broaden the scope of investigated feedbacks to climate and human ecology more generally.

Terms of employment

Fixed-term employment, maximum four years (fulltime studies).

Only those admitted to third-cycle courses and study programmes at a higher education may beappointed to doctoral student.

For regulations concerning employment of doctoral students etc, see the Higher Education Ordinance,Chapter 5, Sections 1-7.

For regulations concerning admission to third-cycle courses and study programs, see the HigherEducation Ordinance, Chapter 5, Sections 34-41.

Application procedure

Please use Lund University job application portal when applying: http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about/work-at-lund-university

The application must be written in English or Swedish.

The application should contain:

• Personal letter in which the applicant gives a short description of him/herself and his/her researchinterests and its relevance for the project.
• A dissertation plan (max three pages).
• Curriculum vitae.
• Grade transcripts.
• Master thesis or similar degree projects.
• If appropriate, documented language skills relevant for third-cycle studies.
• Other documents that the applicant wishes to submit.

The applicant is encouraged to name a maximum of two teachers or researchers who can give recommendation letters, but we do not consider recommendation letters with the application.