Associate Professor in Urban Environmental Change

Job title:

Affiliate Professor in City Environmental Change

Firm

College of Leeds

Job description

Are you an skilled and influential tutorial with a confirmed capacity to hold out educating and analysis on city environmental change and associated subjects? Do you could have a wonderful analysis file and confirmed success acquiring funding and the imaginative and prescient and drive to sort out new challenges? Are you enthusiastic about delivering an distinctive world main analysis and an distinctive pupil expertise in a Russell Group College?The Sustainability Analysis Institute (SRI) within the Faculty of Earth and Setting is searching for an enthusiastic and self-motivated tutorial with a deal with city environmental change to affix our world-leading crew. Following latest successes in pupil recruitment and grant earnings from a spread of funders, we’re searching for to develop our portfolio of fantastic analysis and educating. We’re particularly searching for somebody whose work enhances, and provides depth and breadth to that of our present crew.SRI is an internationally main centre for analysis and educating in interdisciplinary environmental analysis. Our analysis teams embody economics and coverage for sustainability; enterprise and organisations for sustainable societies; atmosphere and improvement; power and local weather change mitigation; social and political dimensions of sustainability; and local weather change adaptation, vulnerability and providers.We’re searching for an skilled and impressive researcher with a powerful motivation to develop and ship modern analysis within the discipline of city environmental change. You must have interdisciplinary experience in cities’ responses to pressures of local weather change, meals safety, agriculture, ecosystem providers, nature-based options, planning or a associated subject. You should have a wonderful analysis file and confirmed success acquiring funding and a imaginative and prescient to sort out new city environmental change challenges. You’ll convey modern research-led approaches and options to our educating. Additionally, you will convey a broad community of current analysis collaborators and a powerful curiosity to work in collaboration with new colleagues throughout the institute and wider College.You’ll contribute to analysis excellence, management and innovation in pupil schooling throughout the Faculty’s Masters and Undergraduate programmes, notably the MSc Sustainable Cities. This may embody educating associated to city environmental change, sustainability and analysis strategies, supervising dissertations, contributing to discipline programs, tutoring and attracting and supervising post-graduate researchers.The College has lately began a course of of reworking its programme portfolio, with a brand new Leeds Curriculum that highlights: inclusive and genuine educating and evaluation approaches, evidence-based pedagogies, international citizenship and digital applied sciences. This ten-year undertaking will contain important improvement of our undergraduate and MSc programmes. We’re searching for somebody who will embrace the chance to contribute modern new educating approaches and new research-based supplies to this course of.What we provide in return

• 26 days vacation plus approx.16 Financial institution Holidays/days that the College is closed by customized (together with Christmas) – That’s 42 days a 12 months!
• Beneficiant pension scheme plus life assurance– the College contributes 14.5% of wage
• Well being and Wellbeing: Discounted employees membership choices at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gymnasium, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports activities halls.
• Private Improvement: Entry to programs run by our Organisational Improvement & Skilled Studying crew.
• Entry to on-site childcare, procuring reductions and journey schemes are additionally out there.

And rather more!If you’re searching for a task that can help you make a distinction, via analysis and pupil schooling, in how cities are designed and managed in a sustainable world, apply right now.To discover the publish additional or for any queries you’ll have, please contact:Telephone: +44(0)113 343 6411E-mail:

Anticipated wage

£56021 – 64914 per 12 months

Location

Leeds

Job date

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:41:37 GMT

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