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School of Architecture Building and Civil Engineering
Part time (30 hours), 18 month Contract
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join a “Community-Centered Modeling of Housing Related Health Disparities” project that develops a collaborative, iterative process for grassroots modeling of health disparities with predictive capability across climate change scenarios in the USA, Vietnam, Turkey, and Ecuador.
The successful candidate will develop community-centered data and knowledge transfer strategies with four case study partners to create cross-project learning.
We’re looking for a motivated researcher with a PhD (or nearly completed) in social science or human geography and a genuine enthusiasm for justice, and an experience of working with communities and on interdisciplinary projects.
For further information please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.
For further enquiries, please contact: Prof Ksenia Chmutina k.chmutina@lboro.ac.uk