Research Fellows – Environmental Change

Research Fellows – Environmental Change (Ref: 606)

 

Full-Time, permanent contract

 

£33,467 - £54,500 per annum, depending on experience

 

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a leading global charity for research, teaching and information on international development, based in Brighton.

 

IDS is seeking to recruit up to three new researchers with international reputations for innovative interdisciplinary work broadly within the area of ‘Environmental Change’. A particular concern is to understand the challenges posed by climate change, in interaction with other environmental and social changes, and options for climate resilient pathways in the context of increasingly complex development challenges. All three appointees will have a strong emphasis on the political economy and political ecology of human-environment interactions in developing and emerging economies.

 

Applicants should have a PhD in social science with a strong commitment to working across disciplines, including with the natural sciences (or very exceptionally, comparable research and practical experience) and an excellent research and publication record with experience and interest in bridging research with practice and policy.

 

A demonstrated capacity to work in a multidisciplinary team and highly creative and cutting-edge group of researchers, teachers and communicators and partners from a wide range of backgrounds is essential along with practical experience in the field.

 

Finally, it is vital that applicants demonstrate a track record of fundraising, obtaining grants, research awards and consultancies to allow them to pursue both independent and collaborative research.

 

Our vision is a world in which poverty does not exist, social justice prevails and economic growth is focused on improving human wellbeing.

 

 

Closing date: 19 February 2014 (10am)

 

Telephone interview: W/C 03 March 2014

 

Interview date:  W/C 17 March 2014

 

OFFICIAL APPLICATIONS FORMS ONLY, CVs are not accepted

 

If you are a non-EU National then please refer to the UK Border Agency website,www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk for information regarding your eligibility to work in the UK.

For further information and to download an application form

please log on to http://www.ids.ac.uk/about-us/working-for-us/jobs

 

Alternatively to receive an electronic or hard copy please email Human Resources,hr@ids.ac.uk

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IDS values diversity and is committed to equal opportunities; applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates who meet the stated criteria.