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Indigenous Research Assistants

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Topic
Research services
Published
17 September 2025
Submission
1 October 2025

Tender description

Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development. This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026. Lot 2: Research Assistant No. 2 Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development. This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026. Lot 1: Research Assistant No. 1 Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development. This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026. Lot 3: Research Assistant No. 3 Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development. This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026. Lot 4: Research Assistant No. 4 Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development. This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026. Lot 5: Research Assistant No. 5 Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development. This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026. Lot 6: Research Assistant No. 6 Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development. This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026. Lot 7: Research Assistant No. 7 Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development. This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026. Lot 8: Research Assistant No. 8 Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development. This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published17 September 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date1 October 2025

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University of St Andrews buys as a higher and further education body, with a central Procurement Office. Budget holders use national, regional or institutional contracts where practical. Collaborative opportunities are developed with partners including APUC, the Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges consortium.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of St Andrews's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, construction work and electrical equipment and lighting.

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