Internships

We offer the possibility for students to do internships, bachelor/master thesis, or voluntary work with the EJAtlas. These will mostly entail the study, documentation and comparative analysis of environmental conflicts. But we also welcome contributions that can support the EJAlas communication, web development, and fundraising efforts. Internships can be based in Barcelona or remotely.


Every participant will be assigned an internal mentor - the specific time frame of the research internship is decided between the participant and the research mentor depending upon their mutual schedules. Below is a list of potential supervisors and their research projects.


Please fill in the internship/volunteer request form here.


For internships and bachelor/masters thesis’, you would work under the supervision of one of our researchers, and therefore your research interests would be related to or fall under one of the following topics:


Marcel Llavero-Pasquina - Fossil Fuel companies environmental conflicts


  1. Israel ecological apartheid in the Naqab. This internship would consist of collaborating with a local Palestinian journalist to translate and report on cases of energy appropriation and exclusion by the Israeli State on Bedouin communities in the Naqab region, highlighting their resistance.


  2. The global environmental justice alliances resisting Liquefied Natural Gas: the Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) market is booming, and LNG terminals are
     being constructed all over the world. LNG globalises the trade of natural gas, and in response environmental justice organisations are weaving networks of resistance across continents. We plan to draw a global map of environmental conflicts against import and export LNG terminals to highlight its impacts, and showcase the resistance.


  3. The victories of the global climate movement: To avert the climate crisis and avoid the environmental impacts of extractions there is an urgent need to
     keep fossil fuels in the ground. There are lessons to be learned from the successful mobilisations that have managed to stop large oil and gas extraction projects around the world. This particular research project seeks to document and analyse the different struggles that have managed to stop oil and gas extraction and serve as inspiration for other movements fighting to keep oil and gas in the ground.

    4. Green hydrogen: Join, help and learn with a group of researchers conducting a global analysis of Green Hydrogen and its potential to reproduce a fossil energy system from solar, wind and hydro renewable sources that sacrifices land, water, landscape and life in the Global South to concentrate energy in the Global North. You will be researching and documenting socioecological resistances to green hydrogen conflicts around the world, and if interested and experienced helping develop a database of companies behind Green Hydrogen projects.


Roberto Cantoni - Energy Justice Theories and Critical Approaches to Renewable Energy


  1. Energy Justice Theories: Distribution, Procedure and Recognition are part of the classic Western approach to energy justice. But one can think of many
     other ways to assess energy justice that are more context-specific and, therefore, better applicable than the classic model. One can even challenge the
     very concept of energy justice, or integrate it with other models, and make it more functional.


  2. Is renewable energy really going to save the world and defuse the climate crisis? By critically studying renewable energy-based projects in the Global
     South, we aim to show the ambiguity of this view and replace it by a more articulated one.

Eleonora Fanari - Conservation justice and green conflicts


  1. Conservation conflicts: protected areas and conservation zones are growing in number with the goal of reducing the global impact of climate change.

    These regions frequently encroach on common land and have a negative impact on human well-being and livelihood, which in turn affects biodiversity.

    In order to investigate new emergent actors, global conservation tactics, and the ensuing local alternatives to neoliberal conservation, the research intends to shed light on conflicts that arise as a result of conservation programs.  


  1. Green projects: environmentally friendly programs aiming at reducing climate change are being implemented under the umbrella of green growth and

    sustainable development. This research aims to investigate how carbon offsetting and other initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest

    degradation, such as REDD +, have been a source of social and environmental disputes, and expose the contradictions of the green agenda. 


Other regional interests of research based in:


  1. China, Central and/or West Asia (with Roberto)


  1. Africa (with Roberto)


  1. South Asia (with Eleonora)




For voluntary work, we suggest you apply to become a collaborator here. Please detail exactly what struggles or areas of research you are interested in investigating.  


We do not have open job positions available at the moment.