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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. Thanks to its location in the Rhine-Main science region, the university can unfold to its full potential and showcase its innovative power and dynamism. Its status as a comprehensive university allows for multidisciplinary learning and teaching and has great potential for internationally renowned, interdisciplinary research. Almost all of its institutes are located on a single campus close to the Mainz city center – creating a lively academic culture for researchers, teaching staff, and students from every continent.

The position is to be filled at the at the Institute of Geography, Faculty 09 for Chemistry, Pharmacy, Geography, and Geosciences in the Human Geography working group.

In the Human Geography working group, led by Prof. Dr. Veronika Cummings, we deal with geographies of inequalities, particularly in cities and within migration and border regimes. Our theoretical and conceptual focus is on questions of responsibility, justice and ethics.

The job advertisement is aimed at individuals with a specific interest in current transdisciplinary debates and critical discussions relevant to human geography in the aforementioned subject areas.

For further insights into our work, please visit https://www.humangeographie.uni-mainz.de/

Your tasks:

• • Independent research as part of the doctoral programme (development of a topic that is compatible with the working group's current research topics)
• • Collaboration in the working group's international research and teaching activities in the fields of social-geographical urban research, transformation processes and migration (e.g. organisation of and participation in conferences, summer schools, networking activities, etc.).
• • Teaching courses in human geography for 3 hours per week in the B.Sc., B.Ed. and M.Ed. programmes at the Institute of Geography at JGU
• • independently conducting and evaluating written examinations as part of the courses and assisting with oral and written examination activities (including exam corrections)
• • participating in the acquisition of third-party funding