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. 

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 dependent upon their mutual schedules. Below is a list of potential supervisors and their research projects. 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. 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.

2. Big Oil conflicts in the energy transition: despite oil and gas constituting to 99% of the energy extracted by fossil fuel companies, they are increasingly

   adopting new "green" technologies to portray an image of contributing to the fight against climate change. However, some of these new energy projects,

   including solar, wind, carbon offsets, hydrogen, biogas, are also large industrial operations that lead to environmental conflicts. We plan to shine a light on

   the socio-environmental resistance to these projects to challenge the "part of the solution" narrative of Big Oil companies.

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.  

2. 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)

2. Africa (with Roberto)

3. South Asia (with Eleonora) 

For this option, please send an email to [email protected] with the email subject as “Internship Request_[your name]”. This email should include: 

a) short introduction of yourself - including your motivations, details of your course and past experience in research and engagement in activist groups

b) indication of which supervisor and research topic you are interested in

c) a tentative list of three cases of conflicts you would like to begin to research on and include in the database

c) how many hours of work in total you would put into the project 

d) your expected calendar 

e) any potential paperwork that we would need to fill in 

f) whether you require a letter of support to apply for funding

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.