Research Fellow, Sustainability and Resilience; focus social issues

Select the region that best fits your location or preferences.

This setting controls the language of the user interface, including buttons, menus, and all site text. Select your preferred language for the best browsing experience.

Select the languages for job listings you want to see. This setting determines which job advertisements will be displayed to you.

Swedish

Norsk

Danish

Finnish

German

French

Dutch

Spanish

Compare your profile with the job requirements

Job or profile information is not available.

We've compared your profile to the job requirements. Here's where they align.

Job or profile information is not available.

You have already applied for this position.

For questions regarding your application, please contact the employer.

For technical assistance, reach out to our support teamhere .

Thank you for your application! An email confirmation has been sent to your email.

Loading job alert...

Receive job alerts that match your preferences.

Select employers Search and select specific employers to receive job alerts only from them.

To reinforce our team, we are looking for a

Research Fellow, Sustainability and Resilience (focus on social issues)

The Job’s mission

The research fellow will work for the Risk & Resilience Initiative. The initiative is led by Prof. Florian Hoos and based on strong collaborations with Prof. Sophie Bacq and Prof. Karl Schmedders as well as a network of researchers from around the world. The main goal of the initiative is to bring the sustainability conversation back to the boardroom thereby ensuring the resilience and long-term value creation of firms.

Concretely, this means helping corporate boards and investors integrate scientific knowledge (e.g., planetary boundaries, IPCC reports) and social foundations (e.g. what is at the core of Doughnut Economics) into corporate governance, opportunity and risk management. The initiative leverages IMD’s strengths in applied and scientific research, innovative executive education learning format development, and global dissemination, all based on strong partnerships, to maximize impact and longevity of the initiative.

The Research Fellow will contribute to the initiative through developing and conducting novel and relevant research that fulfils the goals of the initiative, and is publishable in top-tier academic journals and relevant for practitioner outlets such that it can generate an impact beyond academia, particularly towards board members and investors. Publication formats therefore include academic- and practitioner-oriented articles, literature reviews, reports, and case studies.

The research fellow should also ensure the successful completion of the publication process, and contribute to translating research results into materials for IMD teaching offerings, engagement platforms, and events.

The aim of the Research Fellow’s work is to generate and disseminate impactful outcomes for both academic and practitioner audiences:

• Develop a clear research strategy in line with the initiative and publish in FT50 journals whereby we see value in both FT50-practitioner-oriented journals such as Harvard Business Review, and the more research oriented journals. We also see value in high impact journals such as Nature Sustainability or comparable journals.
• Distill key insights from the conducted research and publish white papers, cases, and other publication formats that reach a borader audience.
• Leverage various dissemination channels to communicate and translate the research insights into short communication formats.
• Engage stakeholders and gain partners for the initiative that support the research, and help disseminating the produced knowledge. Foster engagement with scholars across the globe for future impactful research dedicated to the objective of the initiative.
• Contribute to strategy development for the initiative that guarantees its long-term success

Ideal profile

• Academic background:
  PhD in management, sociology, political science, economics, sustainable finance or a related field, with a clear focus on social impact…