You are invited to apply for the position of Post-Doctoral Research Assistant for a new ESRC funded New Investigator project on ‘Disaster Impact, Risk Reduction and Regime Type in Southeast Asia’.
The successful applicant will by supervised by Dr Laura Southgate and will be based in the Society and Politics Department at Aston University (Birmingham). This is a fixed term post for 16 months, starting in July 2025 and ending in November 2026.
This is an exciting project that will examine the relationship between disaster impact and regime type in Southeast Asia, with a specific focus on how regime type may influence the impact of disasters resulting from natural hazards, and what potential disaster risk reduction strategies can be identified to facilitate and strengthen future disaster governance.
You will be providing essential research assistance for all aspects of the project. Support is particularly required for the creation of a new dataset that maps disaster impact across Southeast Asia according to regime type. The aim of this dataset is to provide practitioner support to improve the efficacy of disaster risk reduction and response capacities from local to national levels across the region.
The ideal candidate must have or be close to having a PhD in a relevant academic discipline. They will have experience in at least one of the research project areas, be able to collect data from multiple open access sources, have strong quantitative research skills including experience in cross sectional and panel regression analysis and STATA, and have experience of writing up/ contributing to the writing up of high-quality publications. Additional essential criteria and responsibilities can be found in the job advert.
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