丹麦奥胡斯大学2020年招聘博士后职位（扰动生态学/景观考古学）

Three-Year Assistant Professorship: Disturbance Ecologies and the Social Organisation of Past Anthropogenic Landscapes

Aarhus University

Description

The School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University invites applications for a three-year assistant professorship. The position is full-time and is expected to begin on 1 April 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful applicant will be based in Aarhus at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Moesgaard.

The university is keen for its staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.

Research context

The assistant professor will be part of the research project ‘Anthropogenic Heathlands: The Social Organization of Super-Resilient Past Human Ecosystems' (ANTHEA), headed by Principal Investigator Associate Professor Mette Løvschal and funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

Across the planet, pastoral regimes are currently transforming into other types of land-holding, while privatisation processes are rapidly turning former large-scale, collectively governed pastures into parcelled-up areas. This increases the need for knowledge about the long-term resilience and vulnerability of human-nature entanglements and (collaborative forms of) land governance. A northwest-European pendant, the anthropogenic heathlands, emerged more than 4,000 years ago, when small-scale agropastoral communities in Northern Europe began the first fire-based management of naturally occurring heather. Some of these grazing regimes, spanning thousands of hectares, existed until the 18th-19th century. Without frequent disturbances, anthropogenic heathland will turn into dwarf shrub or forest. So the survival of these areas suggests the existence of highly specialised forms of human-landscape entanglements and biosocial organisation with the unique capacity to persist. This project envisages a new understanding of the social organisation of past grazing and fire-management regimes, and seeks to radically alter our knowledge of emergent, long-term human-nature entanglements and ecologies thriving on disturbance.

The position

For this particular assignment, we are looking for an intellectually flexible and dedicated researcher with strong analytical skills related to GIS and landscape archaeology – and with interests in landscape organisation, spatial modelling and environmental humanities more broadly. The applicant should have good social and communication skills in order to engage in cross-disciplinary cooperation with project team members and establish external collaborations.

The successful applicant and the PI will share responsibility for Work Package 4 of the project, which is aimed at the first-ever examination of the spatial organisation of heathland management responsible for their emergence and extremely long-term persistence. The applicant will be working with these issues across multiple scales, from the spatial organisation of settlement and funerary sites as well as “off-site patterns” to large-scale spatial organisational patterns such as population fluctuations and areal colonisation/abandonment. Essentially, and in conjunction with the other WPs, WP4 will seek to shed new light on the social organisation of heathlands in the Late Neolithic-Early Iron Age as well as the collaborative dynamics embedded in these landscapes, including the interplay between structures of regulation pertaining to the household and larger communal or sub-communal structures of organisation.

The work package is partly based on seven case study areas in Northern Europe (2800 BC-AD 1000). The applicants should therefore be prepared to engage in cross-disciplinary cooperation with the project team members and be willing to acquaint themselves with other kinds of data.

Applicants are asked to submit a three-page research proposal in which they present a landscape archaeological perspective on the spatial dynamics of heathland organisation, and propose ways to expand this sub-project, focusing particularly on key methodological issues of interest and approaches.

In addition, applicants should submit:

 a concise statement of motivation for applying for the position (maximum one page)

 publications (maximum five).

The successful applicant will be expected to:

 develop their research within the framework provided by the grant awarded, in cooperation with the PI

 present their research at international meetings and publish results in peer-reviewed, international scientific journals

 contribute to the organisation of research workshops and an international conference by the end of the postdoc period

 teach at BA and/or MA level (maximum 20%, by agreement)

 work both independently and collaboratively with the PI, experts and other postdocs from other disciplines, in particular social anthropology, archaeology and paleoecology in terms of presenting and discussing empirical data, ideas and results.

The successful applicant will be based in Aarhus at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies.

Qualifications and job requirements

Applicants must hold a PhD degree or equivalent qualifications in landscape archaeology, history, geography or similar subject fields.

Applicants must be able to document a relevant research profile of high research quality, including experience of international publication and research dissemination.

Applicants must also document:

 expertise in GIS-based landscape analysis

 experience with archaeological landscape and site analysis

 experience with obtaining, building, combining and analysing larger data sets from online repositories, reports and/or published literature

 an interest in spatial modelling methods, including site density maps, statistics and population modelling

 an interest in human-landscape interactions over longer timespans

 the ability to work both independently and collaboratively with supervisors and peers, in particular across landscape archaeology, history and paleoecology

 fluency in written and spoken English and a willingness to acquaint themselves with Danish.

Applications must be uploaded in English.

Please note that only publications that are actually submitted with the application will be assessed; a list of publications or cover pages will not be sufficient. Applications that are not accompanied by publications will not be assessed.

References or recommendations should not be included with the application. Applicants who are selected for a job interview may be asked to provide professional references.

Members of academic staff at Aarhus University are expected to contribute to a vibrant, enjoyable and cross-disciplinary work environment, and we emphasise the importance of participation in the daily life of the department.

For further information about the position and the ERC project (including a project description), please contact ANTHEA Principal Investigator Mette Løvschal by email lovschal@cas.au.dk.For more information about the application, please contact HR supporter Marianne Birn by emailmbb@au.dk

International applicants International applicants are encouraged to check family and work-life balance and attractive working conditions for further information about the benefits of working at Aarhus University and in Denmark, including healthcare, paid holidays and, if relevant, maternity/paternity leave, childcare and schooling. Aarhus University offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including a relocation service and career counselling for expat partners. For information about taxation, see Taxation aspects of international researchers' employment by AU

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