HSS-171-23-R-R – Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Agent-Based Modelling for Conservation

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Faculty of Anthropology and Conservation
Location:  Canterbury
Wage: 
£36,386 to £40,931
each year
Grade:  Grade 7
Publish Kind:  Full Time
Contract Kind:
Fastened Time period

– Ends 31/07/2026
Launch Date: 
Friday 18 August 2023
Closing Date: 
23.59 hours BST on Sunday 10 September 2023

 (except in any other case acknowledged)
Reference:  HSS-171-23-R-R

The Faculty of Anthropology and Conservation is searching for to rent a Publish-Doctoral Analysis Affiliate with experience in modelling to work on an thrilling new utilized analysis programme focussing on West and Central Africa.

You’ll be engaged on the analysis programme Wildlife Consumption in City Tropical Africa, funded by UK Analysis and Innovation, and led by Dr Daniel Ingram of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE). This interdisciplinary analysis programme includes postdoctoral and postgraduate specialists in wildlife conservation, social sciences, economics, and statistics, who collectively examine the socio-cultural, financial, and ecological drivers of the searching, consumption, and commerce of wildlife (for “wild meat”) in rural and concrete areas of the tropics and subtropics.

As a Publish-Doctoral researcher, you’ll primarily design, construct, and analyse an agent-based mannequin to evaluate doable interventions to carry the wild meat sector in direction of sustainability utilizing knowledge collected in West and Central African cities on wild meat consumption. The function will probably additionally contain participation in a analysis dissemination and coverage workshop in one of many focal international locations.

We’re due to this fact searching for a candidate who has expertise in agent-based modelling, and who’s within the social and spatial drivers of pure useful resource use and human behaviours.

As a Publish-Doctoral Analysis Affiliate you’ll:

• Design and construct an agent-based simulation mannequin of city wild meat consumption patterns and shopper behaviour utilizing knowledge collected in West and Central African cities, and write up as a journal article
• Utilizing the agent-based mannequin, take a look at the effectiveness of various intervention situations that could possibly be used to carry the wild meat sector in direction of sustainability, and write-up as a journal article
• Contribute to the design of the city wild meat analysis discipline programme
• Signify the City Wild Meat Analysis Programme at conferences and occasions internationally

To achieve success on this function you should have:

• A PhD or equal qualification in a related topic inside conservation, behavioural or social science or comparable (ideally utilized to conservation, environmental, or improvement points)
• Expertise of designing and constructing agent-based fashions,
• Expertise of writing publications for peer-reviewed internationally-recognised tutorial journals (ideally publishing on agent-based fashions),
• Expertise of collaborating successfully with tutorial and non-academic collaborators.

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