About this role
- PhD: Inclusive Approaches for Soil & Water Management in Uganda (3 positions) - Plenty of variety and challenges - Pleasant working atmosphere - Time for personal development - Proper work-life balance We are looking for three PhD Researchers in the SOWAMA project in Uganda. Are you fascinated by transdisciplinary research and innovative inclusive approaches to explore complex social-ecological systems in challenging environments? Do you speak Swahili and do you have working experience in the rural East-African context? If so, we have an exciting PhD opportunity for you! This PhD position at Wageningen University offers the opportunity to contribute to both methodological innovation and empirical research in the field of experiential learning to address social and institutional challenges in integrated soil and water management in rural landscapes in Uganda. The SOWAMA project (Taking integrated SOil and WAter MAnagement to scale by addressing social and institutional challenges through experiential learning games), a project within the NL-CGIAR Research Programme II - WFN call, is looking for three highly motivated PhD candidates to contribute to this project. The SOWAMA project focusses on addressing the challenges faced by Ugandan farmers in maintaining agricultural productivity under rainfed conditions and climate variability through the scaling of Integrated Soil and Water Management (ISWM). In the face of climate change, Integrated Soil and Water Management (ISWM) can maintain and increase agricultural productivity in rainfed agri-food systems. The transdisciplinary SOWAMA project will assess and address instrumental and relational values and institutions affecting ISWM decision-making processes in Uganda. For this, it will facilitate the co-development of socio-technical innovation bundles (STIBs) addressing bottlenecks, develop experiential learning games to address drivers of implementation, strengthen governance an...