University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Deadline: 30th Apr 2024
The Unit of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) is inviting applications for a PhD Position (100%) in the research project «Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations»
Starting date 1 August 2024 (or by agreement). The position is limited to four years.
The successful PhD candidate will conduct research within the Ambizione project «Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations» funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Based on the example of the digitalization of agriculture through drones/UAVs in China, Germany and Switzerland, the overall objectives of this project are to gain an in-depth, actor-centered understanding of the challenges and opportunities of agricultural digitalization through drones, and to use this as a case for understanding broader reconfigurations of global hierarchies of digital technologies and knowledge. The project consists of two studies exploring the use of agricultural drones in the Sino-German context (PhD candidate) and in the Sino-Swiss context (PI). Together, the two subprojects aim to better understand the digitalization of agriculture, especially from the farmers’ perspectives, to assess its social implications and contribute to responsible innovation. A further goal of the project is to achieve more comprehensive, actor-centered insights into China’s role in global food security, shedding light on the challenges related to the implementation of digital agricultural technologies in a transnational context.
Depending on the language skills and field access of the applicant, the project could focus more on the German or the Chinese sides respectively.
For details, please see: https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/de/news-und-events/news/30636/phd-position-100-in-the-research-project-digital-agriculture?