Gallagher Research Fellow

Job title:

Gallagher Analysis Fellow

Firm

College of Oxford

Job description

Gallagher Analysis Fellow

The Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Methods (OPSIS) has partnered with the Gallagher Analysis Centre and the Oxford Martin College to analyse world systemic dangers, particularly these related to commerce, maritime provide chains and meals safety, and their interactions with monetary and political dangers.

This new submit will probably be funded from the Gallagher Analysis Centre and the Oxford Martin Programme on Systemic Resilience (SysRes). The Analysis Fellow will conduct impartial analysis to supply new analytical insights into the dimensions and dynamics of systemic dangers, and advance sensible options.

This position inside the SysRes programme will focus upon the resilience of world commerce, inspecting the geolocation of provide chains and the infrastructure that allows commerce in items and providers: ports, roads, railways, airports, digital communications, electrical energy. It’ll additionally quantify commerce flows inside these provide chains, within the first occasion focussing upon meals commerce and potential meals commodity shocks, however the extending to think about different commerce flows. The SysRes programme is focussed upon creating efficient responses to boost the resilience of world methods, so the post-holder will discover quite a lot of completely different system interventions and can consider their effectiveness utilizing newly developed system fashions.

The intently aligned analysis (as a Gallagher Analysis Fellow), will focus upon the propagation of systemic dangers via world transport networks, and the way these networks could evolve sooner or later as a consequence of altering patterns in world commerce, together with these related to the inexperienced power transition. The analysis will study the altering geographies of geopolitical danger, with a spotlight upon maritime ‘choke factors’.

You’ll work in an interdisciplinary staff which incorporates researchers with experience in economics, engineering, governance and utilized arithmetic. The staff will work interactively and dynamically, with a view to shortly develop necessary new insights, drawing upon in depth analysis, knowledge and modelling in Oxford College and amongst our worldwide companions. There’s a focus upon publication of outcomes of the very best worldwide significance and with engagement with stakeholders to make sure that new options for system resilience are taken up in follow.

You could have a PhD in a discipline involving geospatial evaluation, community evaluation, financial modelling and/ or danger evaluation. You’ll have expertise of high-level programming (e.g. Python) for methods evaluation. Expertise of integration of heterogeneous fashions and datasets in methods evaluation and validation. You could observe report of producing progressive modelling options to actual world issues. The post-holder will probably be answerable for improvement and implementation of methodology for evaluation of transport infrastructure, commerce and provide chains. This will probably be based mostly on a mixture of knowledge evaluation and simulation modelling. The post-holder will probably be anticipated to publish the mannequin within the peer-reviewed literature and work together intently with a high-profile group of venture companions in disseminating the analysis. Wonderful communication and interpersonal expertise and are a staff employee.

The post-holder will report back to Professor Jim Corridor, who’s Professor of Local weather and Environmental Dangers, chief of the Oxford Programme on Sustainable Infrastructure Methods (OPSIS) and Co-Investigator of the Oxford Martin Programme on Systemic Resilience. They’ll work intently with different members of OPSIS, in addition to the SysRes staff.

It is a full-time submit provided for twenty-four months.

Purposes for this emptiness are to be made on-line. You can be required to add a CV and supporting assertion as a part of your on-line utility.

The time limit for purposes is 12:00 midday on 5 April 2024 and interviews will happen week commencing 8 or 15 April.
Contact Particular person : HR Assistant Emptiness ID : 171550
Contact Telephone : Closing Date & Time : 05-Apr-2024 12:00
Pay Scale : STANDARD GRADE 8 Contact Electronic mail :
Wage (£) : 45585 – 54395

Anticipated wage

Location

Oxford

Job date

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:22 GMT

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