Teammanager Transition, Risk and Innovation Governance

Ben jij een people manager en op zoek naar maatschappelijk betekenisvol werk? Dan is deze functie als teamleider van een groep kwalitatief hoogstaande en innovatieve sociaaleconomische onderzoekers iets voor jou! Je hebt veel flexibiliteit en ruimte in de inrichting van je werk en werkzaamheden.

Je wordt onderdeel van Wageningen Economic Research (WEcR) dat bestaat uit tien expertisegroepen. Deze vacature is van de expertisegroep Transition, Risk and Innovation Governance (TRI), waarin ongeveer 30 enthousiaste professionals werken aan onderzoeksprojecten gerelateerd aan transities in en van het voedselsysteem. Actuele onderwerpen van onderzoek zijn bijvoorbeeld;

• adoptie van nieuwe technologie voor stikstofemissiereductie
• integratie van biologische bestrijdingsmiddelen in de bedrijfsvoering.

De groep werkt aan het beantwoorden van vragen als: Hoe maken agrarisch ondernemers keuzes in deze transitie? Wat zijn risico’s, belemmeringen en (economische) kansen bij het varen van een nieuwe koers? Welke ondersteuning hebben ondernemers nodig om tot een toekomstbestendige en rendabele bedrijfsvoering te komen?

De groep Transition, Risk and Innovation Governance richt zich met onderzoeksresultaten en advies op een nationale en internationale markt van overheden, NGO’s en bedrijfsleven. Alle onderzoekers werken over alle expertisegroepen en WUR-onderdelen heen in multidisciplinaire project teams en daarnaast met experts uit andere Nederlandse of buitenlandse universiteiten, instellingen en bedrijven.

Als teamleider ben je sparringpartner voor projectleiders en onderzoekers en verantwoordelijk voor de inzet van jouw team en hun ontwikkeling. De medewerkers van TRI werken vanuit Den Haag en Wageningen. Op beide locaties ben je met regelmaat te vinden.

Jouw rol
Als teamleider coördineer en organiseer je het onderzoeksproces effectief en efficiënt. Je zorgt voor een professioneel en financieel goed draaiende expertisegroep en bent eindverantwoordelijk voor de bedrijfsvoering van de groep. Je belangrijkste taken zijn:

• onderzoekers motiveren en stimuleren in hun verantwoordelijkheid voor resultaatgericht en hoogstaand onderzoek, producten en dienstverlening via samenwerking en ontwikkeling.
• Je bent qua houding en gedrag een voorbeeld, in samenwerking met de andere teamleiders;
• op basis van voldoende domeinkennis, en kennis/ervaring met het doen van onderzoek ben je een sparringpartner voor de onderzoekers op het gebied van strategische onderzoeksvragen en communicatie;
• planning en management van de onderzoekscapaciteit en handhaven van de kwaliteit van onze producten;
• samen met de andere teamleiders ontwikkelen en delen van een visie op klantgericht onderzoek.
• faciliteren en stimuleren om professionele competenties van de groep aan te scherpen door middel van ‘life long learning’ en innovatie;
• verbinden van onderzoekscapaciteiten en kwaliteiten met de behoefte van de klant. Soms vraagt dat om actief participeren in het netwerk en activiteiten in de markt;

Software Engineer @ Team Earth Informatics

Team Earth Informatics is looking for enthusiastic candidates to enforce the software development capacity in the team. In this position you will participate in exciting research projects with a strong ICT component. You work together with other software developers in our team and other teams. You will also collaborate with researchers within WUR and from other organisations, both national and international. Supporting our broad and transdisciplinary research, you will work on a diversity of topics in the domain of agri-food and environment.

Your tasks will cover diverse aspects of software engineering, focusing on implementation, but also including design, testing, documentation and maintenance. The team Earth Informatics prefers agile methodologies for software development. Our ICT work is diverse, and projects and development teams are usually small or medium size. This means we expect you to be flexible, able to manage more than one project at the same time and able and willing to master more than just one development environment and where required both back- and frontend. You will have the chance to join state-of-art projects, following the newest developments in software engineering, like big data technologies, functional programming (languages), machine learning etc.

Some inspiring examples of our tools and projects are presented on this site: http://www.earthinformatics.eu/tools

The Earth Observation and Environmental Informatics team contributes to spatial competences for a sustainable world through remote sensing, drones, big data, open data, yield forecasting, ecosystem services and geo-ICT. By joining us you can have real impact, work on a beautiful and uniquely sustainable campus and further develop yourself as an engineer.

PhD candidate in ERC funded project Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America (POPULAR) - subproject Recife

The Sociology of Development and Change (SDC) Group welcomes applicants for a fully salaried PhD position in the ERC funded project ‘Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America: Reconceptualising Politics from the Margins’ (POPULAR). POPULAR is a comparative ethnographic research project led by Dr Martijn Koster, Associate Professor at SDC.

It investigates the relationships between residents of low-income neighbourhoods and the state around issues of housing and urban development. It studies the formal and informal practices and interactions of these urban residents around housing and urban development in three domains: governance, electoral politics, and activism. It compares three cities in Latin America where housing is an urgent issue: Medellín (Colombia), Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), and Recife (Brazil).

The research is carried out by a project team consisting of six researchers: 3 PhDs, 2 Postdocs and the Principal Investigator (PI), Dr Koster. The team will work together to further elaborate and refine the research approach and the various work packages, analyse the data, participate in conferences, and (co-)author publications. Fieldwork will be conducted by a PhD and a Postdoc (Santiago de Cuba, Medellín) or a PhD and Dr Koster (Recife).

You will be based at Wageningen University and conduct twelve months of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in low-income neighbourhoods in Recife. The focus of your research in this work package will be on how the residents interact with the state in the various domains, particularly in relation to housing and upgrading projects, and issues such as housing shortages and tenure legalisation, and protests around the theme of housing.

You will analyse how resident-state relationships are shaped by political histories and regimes of governance. You will study the politics of marginalised urban residents from ‘the inside’, studying their practices and perspectives, their interactions with state representatives, and their emic notions, moralities, and imaginations of the state. The other researcher in this work package (Postdoc or PI) will focus on key actors in the different domains, and their interactions with the urban periphery.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• setting up and carrying out ethnographic fieldwork;
• setting up and completing a PhD dissertation within four years;
• authoring and co-authoring publications with other team members;
• participating in conferences, workshops, seminars and other scholarly activities;
• being part of the research team and help organise the overall work and strategy of the team;
• being an active member of the Sociology and Development and Change Group and the Section Space, Place and Society (participating in group activities, meetings, and seminars).

You will work here
You will be part of the POPULAR research team, led by the PI Dr Martijn Koster. This team is embedded in the chair group of Sociology of Development and Change led by Prof. Bram Büscher, and the Section Space, Place and Society. Your supervisor will be Dr Martijn Koster and co-supervisor will be Dr Robert Coates.

PhD candidate in ERC funded project Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America (POPULAR) - subproject Medellín

The Sociology of Development and Change (SDC) Group welcomes applicants for a fully salaried PhD position in the ERC funded project ‘Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America: Reconceptualising Politics from the Margins’ (POPULAR). POPULAR is a comparative ethnographic research project led by Dr Martijn Koster, Associate Professor at SDC.

It investigates the relationships between residents of low-income neighbourhoods and the state around issues of housing and urban development. It studies the formal and informal practices and interactions of these urban residents around housing and urban development in three domains: governance, electoral politics, and activism. It compares three cities in Latin America where housing is an urgent issue: Medellín (Colombia), Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), and Recife (Brazil).

The research is carried out by a project team consisting of six researchers: 3 PhDs, 2 Postdocs and the Principal Investigator (PI), Dr Koster. The team will work together to further elaborate and refine the research approach and the various work packages, analyse the data, participate in conferences, and (co-)author publications. Fieldwork will be conducted by a PhD and a Postdoc (Santiago de Cuba, Medellín) or a PhD and Dr Koster (Recife).

You will be based at Wageningen University and conduct twelve months of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in low-income neighbourhoods in Medellín. The focus of your research in this work package will be on how the residents interact with the state in the various domains, particularly in relation to housing and upgrading projects, and issues such as housing shortages and tenure legalisation, and protests around the theme of housing. You will analyse how resident-state relationships are shaped by political histories and regimes of governance.

You will study the politics of marginalised urban residents from ‘the inside’, studying their practices and perspectives, their interactions with state representatives, and their emic notions, moralities, and imaginations of the state. The other researcher in this work package (Postdoc or PI) will focus on key actors in the different domains, and their interactions with the urban periphery.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• setting up and carrying out ethnographic fieldwork;
• setting up and completing a PhD dissertation within four years;
• authoring and co-authoring publications with other team members;
• participating in conferences, workshops, seminars and other scholarly activities;
• being part of the research team and help organise the overall work and strategy of the team;
• being an active member of the Sociology and Development and Change Group and the Section Space, Place and Society (participating in group activities, meetings, and seminars).

You will work here
You will be part of the POPULAR research team, led by the PI Dr Martijn Koster. This team is embedded in the chair group of Sociology of Development and Change led by Prof. Bram Büscher, and the Section Space, Place and Society. Your supervisor will be Dr Martijn Koster and co-supervisor will be Dr Elisabet Rasch.

PhD candidate in ERC funded project Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America (POPULAR) - subproject Santiago de Cuba

The Sociology of Development and Change (SDC) Group welcomes applicants for a fully salaried PhD position in the ERC funded project ‘Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America: Reconceptualising Politics from the Margins’ (POPULAR). POPULAR is a comparative ethnographic research project led by Dr Martijn Koster, Associate Professor at SDC.

It investigates the relationships between residents of low-income neighbourhoods and the state around issues of housing and urban development. It studies the formal and informal practices and interactions of these urban residents around housing and urban development in three domains: governance, electoral politics, and activism. It compares three cities in Latin America where housing is an urgent issue: Medellín (Colombia), Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), and Recife (Brazil).

The research is carried out by a project team consisting of six researchers: 3 PhDs, 2 Postdocs and the Principal Investigator (PI), Dr Koster. The team will work together to further elaborate and refine the research approach and the various work packages, analyse the data, participate in conferences, and (co-)author publications. Fieldwork will be conducted by a PhD and a Postdoc (Santiago de Cuba, Medellín) or a PhD and Dr Koster (Recife).

You will be based at Wageningen University and conduct twelve months of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in low-income neighbourhoods in Santiago de Cuba. The focus of your research in this work package will be on how the residents interact with the state in the various domains, particularly in relation to housing and upgrading projects, and issues such as housing shortages and tenure legalisation.

You will analyse how resident-state relationships are shaped by political histories and regimes of governance. You will study the politics of marginalised urban residents from ‘the inside’, studying their practices and perspectives, their interactions with state representatives, and their emic notions, moralities, and imaginations of the state. The other researcher in this work package (Postdoc or PI) will focus on key actors in the different domains, and their interactions with the urban periphery.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• setting up and carrying out ethnographic fieldwork;
• setting up and completing a PhD dissertation within four years;
• authoring and co-authoring publications with other team members;
• participating in conferences, workshops, seminars and other scholarly activities;
• being part of the research team and help organise the overall work and strategy of the team;
• being an active member of the Sociology and Development and Change Group and the Section Space, Place and Society (participating in group activities, meetings, and seminars).

You will work here
You will be part of the POPULAR research team, led by the PI Dr Martijn Koster. This team is embedded in the chair group of Sociology of Development and Change led by Prof. Bram Büscher, and the Section Space, Place and Society. Your supervisor will be Dr Martijn Koster and co-supervisor will be Dr Stephanie Hobbis.