Caring for people and nature: A summary report on Green Care and place-based sustainability in Finland by Angela Moriggi, Katriina Soini, Elina Vehmasto, Dirk Roep, Laura Secco and Maria Uosukainen, published by the LUKE – Natural Resources Institute Finland.
The Rural Sociology Group and the Business Management and Organisation Group of Wageningen University are looking for a Research Assistant to work on the inventory of gender norms in rural innovation in the Netherlands. This research is part of the joint 3-year EU-funded project GRASSCEILING which started in January 1st, 2023.
The position is for 12 months at 0.4 FTE. The research assistant will be based at the BMO group.
In this exciting research position:
Have you started thinking about your MSc thesis, but are you not sure what topic to choose? Or do you have a lot of ideas, but are you not sure what chair group to join?
Come and meet the SPS chair groups at our annual thesis market!
Learn more about our research domains, meet potential supervisors, and get inspired!
Especially interesting for students from: MFT, MID, MTO, MOA, MDR, MCH (and everyone who is interested).
When? Monday February 20th – 16:00-18:00h.
Where? Leeuwenborch, 3rd floor.
Questions? Email us: thesis.sdc@wur.nl / thesis.rso@wur.nl / thesiscoordination.hso@wur.nl
The Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University is looking for a colleague who will:
The job is suitable for a Post-Doc or for someone with 5 years of experience in citizen-engagement and serious game design.
The position is for 24 months at 0.8 FTE and will be based in the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University.
Please note that Dutch fluency is required for this position.
This research is part of a four-year EU-funded project: CULTIVATE.
For more information and to apply click here.
Friday December 16, 2022, during a ceremony from 13.30-15.00, Marta Nieto Romero will defend her PhD thesis ‘(Re)building historical commons. Exploring forest commoning as a transformative practice in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula‘ in the auditorium of the Omnia building of Wageningen University and Research. See here for more information and a link to the live broadcast or recording of the ceremony. The PhD-thesis will be available at WUR Library after a successful defence. Below a Summary of the PhD-thesis.
A commons is a social organizational system where all interested parties participate in the collective use and care for common resources with an emphasis on open access, fair usage and long-term sustainability. While commons have received substantial scientific attention, we know little on how commons’ systems emerge and are sustained over time; in other words, the common-ing practices. The thesis investigated how forest are commoned and become the basis for building thriving communities both in rural and urban areas. It followed a case-study approach with two cases in Galicia (Spain), and one in North region of Portugal (North-western Iberian Peninsula). Methods included interviews, participant observation and a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project where people’s meaningful experiences in forests were collected and shared with the broader community to understand the role of affects in driving participation. The thesis offer understanding on why/how humans engage in caring for their places, and why is this relevant for sustainability transformations.
Rural Sociology Wageningen University 