PostDoc on Equitable Rural Futures

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The Rural Sociology Group (RSO) is hiring a Dutch-speaking PostDoctoral Researcher to support the FARMHEROES project to understand and advance more equitable rural futures. In this role you will generate cutting-edge evidence on the attractiveness of farming with a focus on diversity and inclusion. Research findings will be operationalised into user-friendly resources grounded in established organisations to ensure long-term use. Creative and Cultural Industry actors are embedded in FARMHEROES to enrich methodologies and co-develop innovative tools for communication and business development. As a PostDoc in the FARMHEROES project, you contribute to a culture of care and deeply engaged academic research. You will work closely with partners across the Netherlands and Europe to advance: A network of young farmer Ambassadors A National AgriFutures Action Group Macro-Regional Labs The European AgriFutures Forum You will also help mobilise diverse stakeholders to deliver policy mixes and initiatives to increase the attractiveness of farming to young people across Europe. The position will start in October 2026 and run until December 2029, at 0.8 FTE (4 days a week). Working in the office at least two days a week is required. This job also requires travel in Europe. Your duties and responsibilities include: Leading research and developing strategies, an evidence-based framework and tools for increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in research and for the future of farming; Helping to lead an Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) Working Group responsible for guiding inclusivity across all research activities; Coordinating and researching the diverse stakeholder processes associated with the project, with a focus on the Dutch young Farmer Ambassadors and the National AgriFuture Action Group; Undertaking teaching and supervision of MSc and BSc students on relevant topics; and, Serving as the key contact point for RSO in the project, leading on concrete project deliverables, attending consortium meetings, and communicating between local activities and the wider Your team You will work directly with Dr Jessica Duncan. More broadly, you will be embedded in the FARMHEROES project, funded under Horizon Europe. You will work here This job is housed in the Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University. The Rural Sociology Group is a vibrant community of researchers who bring together different sociological theories and interdisciplinary approaches to study the many forms of power, inequality and unevenness. We start from the everyday life of people to understand transformation processes in agriculture, food provisioning, and rural development from a comparative perspective.