PhD vacancy : 4-year PhD position at the UAB History of Science Institute

The History of Science Institute (iHC) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona welcomes applications from PhD students for a fully-funded, four-year doctoral fellowship in the context of the project “Exchange Zones of Epistemic Resistance and Alternative Innovation: Activism, Grassroots Movements and Expertise, 1970s-1990s (PID2023-150413NB-C21, funded by the Spanish State Research Agency). This project will delve on the exchange zones between activists, grassroots groups, and experts in the Iberian Peninsula during the last decades of the 20th century, in three main areas: 1. Environment, energy and communities; 2. Body, gender and identities; 3. The city, mobility and urban sustainability.

The selected candidate will join the PhD program in History of Science at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and become part of the research team of the project. In close collaboration with the principal investigator and the research team, the candidate will: develop a doctoral dissertation on a topic related to the project, help in the achievement of the expected results, present and publish publications, and help to organize and participate in conferences, workshops, seminars, and outreach activities of the project.

Submission deadline: 14th October 2024.


For more information, please contact Jaume Valentines-A., Institut d’Història de la Ciència, UAB.