07/09/2026
Oferta de postdoctorales Juan de la Cierva de 3 años en SOCIALPAT, IPNA-CSIC:
SOCIALPAT Research Group | IPNA-CSIC | Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
The Social Sciences, Heritage & Food Research Group (SOCIALPAT) at the Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC) invites expressions of interest from outstanding early-career postdoctoral researchers wishing to apply for the forthcoming Juan de la Cierva fellowship of the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI).
We are particularly interested in researchers developing ambitious work in multispecies and more-than-human social science, broadly understood. We welcome candidates from anthropology, human geography, sociology, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, political ecology and related fields whose work examines how humans, animals, environments, institutions and technologies become entangled in contemporary processes of governance, care and socio-ecological change.
The successful candidate would be encouraged to develop an independent postdoctoral research agenda, while benefiting from close intellectual exchange with SOCIALPAT and the wider interdisciplinary environment of IPNA-CSIC.
We particularly welcome projects engaging with one or several of the following areas:
multispecies ethnography and more-than-human approaches;
human–animal relations and human–animal studies;
multispecies and animal geographies;
multispecies governance and more-than-human politics;
anthropology of conservation and biodiversity;
political ecology and environmental anthropology;
care, welfare and ethics in human–animal relations;
rural–urban relations and socio-ecological conflict;
environmental governance and contested species;
Science and Technology Studies and Actor–Network Theory;
veterinary practices and animal health as social and political fields;
law, expertise, public policy and regulation concerning animals and environments;
gender and the organisation of multispecies care;
conservation conflicts and coexistence;
island and peripheral ecologies;
digital, visual, participatory and experimental approaches to multispecies research.
Empirically, proposals may focus on any species, multispecies assemblage, landscape or socio-environmental controversy. We are particularly interested in projects that combine strong empirical research with an ambitious theoretical contribution capable of speaking to wider debates across the social sciences.
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