Are you an early or mid-career scholar with a profile working on the sustainable transformation of global food systems? Do you want to contribute to an exciting and strongly international and interdisciplinary teaching programme at Wageningen University?Your research contributes to current (social) scientific debates on the policy, governance and practice of transforming food systems, integrating environmental concerns (e.g. climate change, biodiversity loss, fresh water scarcity), health concerns (the triple burden of malnutrition: hunger, micro-nutrient deficiencies and obesity) and socio-economic concerns (livelihoods of small farmers, global justice, influence from large private companies).
You do this by building on Global Value Chains (GVC), food systems and their governance, Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), global diets, social practices approaches to consumer behaviour and sustainable production and consumption. Your work is also global in scope, bringing perspectives on food systems both within and extending between multiple regions around the world.
You will develop, supervise, and carry out high-quality research in collaboration with your own international network, as well as with colleagues at the
Environmental Policy Group (ENP) and Wageningen University. You will also be pro-active in acquiring funding from a mix of government, EU and private sources and publish regularly in leading international academic journals. Over the medium term, you will be supported to develop an individual research grant application to either the Dutch
Innovational Research Incentives Scheme or the
European Research Council.
In the short term, you will be expected to adapt existing courses taught by the ENP Group in the Masters of International Development, Environmental Sciences and Urban Environmental Management. Over the long term, opportunities will emerge to develop your own courses and contribute to the design and policy of MSc and BSc programmes.
In this challenging career trajectory:
- you acquire, lead and implement innovative and creative (inter-)national research projects in the ENP Group;
- you are a senior researcher who collaborates with colleagues and supervise PhD students, BSc and MSc theses and you develop and teach courses;
- you contribute to the further development of the ENP Group.
Tenure Track is a career path for hardworking scientists who pursue to excel in education and research. We seek to attract scientific talent and to stimulate and support their development.
The group is divided into five thematic research areas. You will contribute primarily to the '
Sustainable Food Transformations' theme, but are also encouraged to collaborate with colleagues and students in the other themes focusing on marine governance, urban transformations, climate futures and environmental mobilities. Please watch the short video of Prof. Simon Bush who tells more about our group: