2X POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

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2X POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

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College Faculty London

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About usThe Bartlett Improvement Planning Unit (DPU) at College Faculty London (UCL) is a global centre specialising in tutorial instructing, sensible coaching, analysis and consultancy within the fields of city and regional growth and planning. It’s involved with selling sustainable types of growth, understanding speedy urbanisation and inspiring innovation within the coverage, planning and administration responses to the financial, social and environmental growth of cities and areas, particularly in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Center East.The Bartlett Faculty of Sustainable Building (BSSC) is likely one of the world’s main tutorial centres of excellence within the administration of initiatives, infrastructure supply, development and infrastructure economics and finance, actual property and concrete economics, digital transformations in amenities and constructed asset administration, and sustainable and data-driven change within the development trade and its provide chains. Workers have sturdy worldwide hyperlinks with different main international universities, and strategic relationships with related components of presidency, key organisations in particular fields and main firms, in and past development and infrastructure.Extra data on the DPU and BSSC might be discovered right here:In regards to the functionBased mostly within the DPU and BSSC’s vibrant hive of exercise in London (UK), we’re hiring two full time post-doctoral analysis fellows (PDRFs) to work on a brand new three-year UKRI challenge entitled, ‘Pay attention, Study & Leap: Co-producing Equitable and Sustainable Nature-based Options for Local weather Resilience in East African Cities’.Led by Affiliate Professor Jordana Ramalho on the Bartlett Improvement Planning Unit, UCL, LISTEN, LEARN & LEAP is a global challenge that goals to discover the socio-political components that help the uptake, sustainability and institutionalisation of nature-based options (NbS) in two essential East African capital cities, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, with an specific concentrate on the wants and lively involvement of younger individuals, and particularly girls and women.LISTEN, LEARN & LEAP shall be delivered in partnership with companions and organisations based mostly in Africa, and in direct engagement with tutorial establishments, consultants in addition to native community-based organisations. The challenge follows a technique of data co-production, combining quantitative and qualitative strategies with processes that combine the data of city practitioners and communities by way of participatory processes.The submit holders will work throughout the next work packages with targets as follows: 1) Pay attention: to doc, proof and study from present data, experiences of, and experiments in managing water dangers by way of NbS to reinforce our understanding of the context-specific and communal components that form the fairness, effectivity and sustainability of NbS, and the boundaries and entry factors for scaling-up or mainstreaming community-driven interventions into city planning processes; 2) Study: to facilitate the co-production of community-driven NbS in new places and develop methodologies that produce actionable data on the environmental, socio-cultural, monetary and institutional issues that drive or derail equitable, sustainable and resilient NbS to city water points in complicated city settings; 3) Leap: to foster cross-sectoral municipal and regional dialogue and data alternate between community-based organisations, civil society and institutional actors to determine frequent objectives and sensible steering round institutionalising and scaling-up inclusive community-led NbS to advance equitable city local weather resilience in East Africa and past.About youYou need to maintain a PhD in a related space (e.g. city research, growth research, infrastructure engineering, human geography, growth planning, gender, or environmental research).Fieldwork expertise abroad, ideally in Africa, with a confirmed capacity to have interaction with communities in complicated settings and/or municipal authorities by way of a spread of participatory strategies (together with conferences, focus teams, workshops, and coverage discussions)Information of native governance, city growth, gender and concrete inequality, gray/inexperienced/blue infrastructure (nature-based options, water, and sanitation), or city local weather resilience in any of the challenge international locations (Tanzania, Kenya) or in different African international locations.What we provideIn addition to the thrilling alternatives this function presents we additionally supply some nice advantages a few of that are under:41 Days vacation (together with 27 days annual depart 8 financial institution vacation and 6 closure days)
Outlined profit profession common revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
Cycle to work scheme and season ticket mortgage
On-Website nursery
On-site gymnasium
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
Worker help programme: Workers Help Service
Discounted medical insurance coverageOur dedication to Equality, Range and InclusionAs London’s World College, we all know variety fosters creativity and innovation, and we would like our neighborhood to symbolize the variety of the world’s expertise. We’re dedicated to equality of alternative, to being truthful and inclusive, and to being a spot the place all of us belong.We subsequently notably encourage purposes from candidates who’re more likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.These embrace individuals from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled individuals; LGBTQI+ individuals; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, girls.You may learn extra about our dedication to Equality, Range and Inclusion right here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/Obtainable paperwork

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North West London

Job date

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:44:06 GMT

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