PostDoc (m/f/d)
wanted for the next possible date at Heidelberg Instiute of Global Health (HIGH).
CUES (Consumers’ Understanding of Eating Sustainably) is a new Horizon Europe project launched in March 2024 that aims to address the urgent need for a more sustainable food system that benefits the environment, society, and the economy.
The Heidelberg Institute of Global Health is looking to hire a full-time post-doc to support our contribution to CUES, which will focus on the policy transformations needed to facilitate the transition to a socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable food system. Through the CUES project, you work with partners to better understand and inform food system governance and enable policy change at the subnational, national and EU levels.
CUES Policy work Objectives
The objective of CUES policy work package is to understand whether public policies act as enablers or barriers towards citizens’ consumption of sustainable products and how public policies tackle the issue of unsustainable food consumption. The WP aims to identify the gaps in public policies and how to overcome them. More specifically, the objectives are:
- To assess existing EU policies and good practices at the national and sub-national levels that influence inclusive and smart ways to communicate sustainability of food
- To facilitate dialogues between all relevant stakeholders along the decision-making, including civil society, to discuss and identify policies that support the best means of transmission and presentation of sustainability-related information to guide and change citizens’ behaviour
- Job-ID: V000012613
- Einsatzgebiet: Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
- Einsatzort: Heidelberg
- Startdatum: as of now
- Tätigkeitsbereich: Wissenschaft und Lehre
- Anstellungsart: Vollzeit (100 %)
- Veröffentlicht: 03.05.2024
- Befristung:Befristet (36 months)
- Vertrag:TV-L
Your Tasks
In addition to attending regular project management/ review meetings, you will work with colleagues at HIGH and CUES partners to:
- Develop inclusion and exclusion criteria for the policy mapping based on CUES’ objectives and aims and use publicly available data sources to search for policies;
- Build a comprehensive dataset of policies that will then be coded and analysed to identify the strengths and gaps of existing/ upcoming EU policies on sustainable claims, labels and policies designed to promote sustainable and ethical consumption of food products
- Support the policy dialogues process (designing, organising, conducting) with EU policymakers and a diverse range of relevant actors and experts in Brussels-based and regional multi-stakeholder events to exchange CUES project findings and recommendations and identify smart and inclusive ways of utilising sustainability-related information to guide and support consumers to make more sustainable food choices.
- Support the analysis of the policy dialogues and co-author policy recommendations
- Support the ethnographic analysis of the Advisory Board meetings and Policy Dialogues
Your Profile
- PhD in a discipline (e.g. epidemiology, public health, sociology) with exposure to food systems (ideally European)
- Experience in conducting systematic searches and analysing policies
- Experience in using ethnographic methods
- Fluency in English in writing and spoken language
- Ability to work and collaborate in an interdisciplinary team
We offer
- Goal-oriented, individual training and development opportunities
- Possibility of mobile working
- Flexible working hours within the framework of flexitime
- Possibility to publish scientifically is offered and supported
- Regular team meetings
- Interdisciplinary cooperation with social sciences
- Collectively agreed remuneration, attractive company pension scheme (VBL)
- 30 days vacation
- Sustainable travel: job ticket
- Family-friendly working environment: cooperative arrangements for childcare, subsidy for child vacation care, advice for employees with relatives in need of care
- Wide range of health, prevention and sports offers
Kontakt & Bewerbung
For further information please contact Dr. Anant Jani via e-mail.
Interested?
Applications will be accepted until 20.05.2024 via e-mail.
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
Dr. Anant Jani
Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.3
69120 Heidelberg
Anant.jani@uni-heidelberg.de
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