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CST publications released
A number of publications have been released over the past few weeks providing succinct overviews of various aspects of CST-related work. These are available for download.
MASTERS OPPORTUNITY: Agricultural trade networks
A Masters bursary focusing on Agricultural trade networks in the Western Cape is available for 2020. nterested individuals should have a strong academic track-record, will be expected to be based at the CST and participate in Centre seminars and activities.
MASTERS OPPORTUNITY: Agricultural regime shifts
We seek a Masters student that is interested in contributing to understanding these regime shifts and collecting examples.
MASTERS BURSARY – Telecoupling: trade impacts in Southern Africa
We seek motivated individuals interested to pursue a Masters, who have a keen interest in sustainability, an interest and ability to integrate across the social and natural sciences, and who enjoy collaboration and working in teams.
The principles which underlie quality knowledge co-production
In a new paper in Nature Sustainability, authors including CST's Prof Oonsie Biggs and Prof Belinda Reyers propose a set of general principles that underlie high-quality knowledge co-production for sustainability research.
POSITION: Lecturer/researcher – African economic trends and renewable energy transitions
CST seeks to appoint a researcher with expertise in issues pertinent to Africa, with specific emphasis on renewable energy policies and technology, economic development and governance issues.
Experiential Learning through a Design-Build in Morocco
In early 2018, Sharné Bloem, with a background in architecture and currently a researcher at Centre for Complex Systems in Transition and the support of Prof Mark Swilling, entered the Solar Decathlon Africa competition with a design proposal for a net-zero-energy house for the African context.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Masters and PhD bursaries for 2020
We seek motivated individuals interested to pursue either a Masters or a PhD linked to the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative, who have a keen interest in sustainability and sustainability transitions, an interest and ability to integrate across the social and natural sciences, and who enjoy collaboration and working in 2 teams.
Oonsie Biggs recognised amid world’s top researchers
Oonsie Biggs has been listed in the 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List.