Organisation/Company: KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Research Field: Environmental science, Geosciences
Researcher Profile: Recognised Researcher (R2), Established Researcher (R3)
Country: United Kingdom
Application Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 - 00:00 (UTC)
Type of Contract: Other
Job Status: Full-time
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
About us
The School of Global Affairs (SGA) in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at King’s is a dynamic hub of multi-disciplinary scholarship that seeks to address the pressing issues facing our world today, including climate change, inequality, and global health.
At King’s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practices into all our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming, and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. King’s offers inclusive benefits to staff, including flexible working, Enhanced Parental Leave, funds for Parents and Carers, and the potential to join community staff networks.
About the role
The Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA), based in the Geography Department at King’s College London, will be responsible for enabling and supporting the development of a co-production approach for the Climate Change Resilient Equitable Healthy Cities in Africa (CLARITY-Africa) programme. The post holder will coordinate implementation of participative research and engagement in CLARITY workstreams, monitoring and reporting on the impacts of the research to participants and for academic audiences. The PDRA will collaborate actively with research partners in Ghana, Rwanda, and South Africa, and stakeholders in focal cities. The co-production approach developed in CLARITY will build on the ‘loops and building blocks’ approach developed in the earlier PATHWAYS project (Audia et al., 2021) and on the CityLabs concept developed by the African Centre for Cities (UCT).
The CLARITY programme aims to generate novel transdisciplinary knowledge and trigger policies and practices that enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to the health effects of climate change in Africa’s cities. In partnership with policy and societal partners in four cities in Ghana (Accra and Tamale) and Rwanda (Kigali and Musanze), the project will co-produce novel and transformative knowledge on how climate change affects environmental risk exposures, and those who are vulnerable to such risks. The project will identify existing and new technologies, infrastructures, policies, and practices that can enhance resilience and support adaptation to climate-change-induced health risks, and evaluate their feasibility, efficacy, enablers, and equity in our focal cities.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30th April 2027.
About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
1. PhD qualified in relevant social science subject area (or pending results)
2. Expertise in the co-production of knowledge with societal partners and stakeholders
3. Experience in working with non-academic partners in producing evidence and useful knowledge
4. Track record of writing papers as evidenced by publications or submitted manuscripts in referred journals
5. Track record of climate risks and human health and/or global health research
6. Track record of working in research teams
7. Track record of doing research in diverse international settings
8. Experience in working in African settings
9. Project management and research evaluation experience
10. Qualitative research skills (participative action research)
Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting the award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances, the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.
Further information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.
We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
Grade and Salary: £44,355 per annum including London Weighting Allowance
Job ID: 109227
Close Date: 31-Mar-2025
Contact Person: Frans Berkhout
Contact Details: frans.berkhout@kcl.ac.uk
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