The CCRI at the University of Gloucestershire is seeking to appoint enthusiastic candidates with a post graduate qualification and an interest in impactful research programmes that makes a positive contribution to rural policies, economies, and communities.
Three posts are available:
Research & Innovation Associate (Net Zero)
Focusing on the contribution of land use to net zero ambitions, this post will support the project PI in all aspects of project management and research. Specifically it involves carrying out a range of social science methods to assess i) how land managers can build capacity and learning from using GHG accounting tools and ii) governance issues related to GHG accounting tools. The role involves contributing to the Living Lab methodology and conducting semi-structured interviews and participatory activities with farmers and stakeholders (representatives of policy making, GHG accounting, the value chain and the farming and advisory community, landowners and tenants across the UK).
Closes 6 October 2024
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Research Assistant (Resilient Food Systems)
The post holder will be working with project Co-I Professor Damian Maye on the UKRI / BBSRC-funded project ‘Towards Resilient Industrial Socio-Metabolic relations (TRI-SoMe CHICKEN)’ to examine resilience questions at the production end of the poultry system. The role will develop an understanding, through the application of novel qualitative research methods (interviews, ethnographies), chicken (broiler) production systems, harms and benefits at the farm level, including chicken lives and connections with producers, inputs (feed and energy for example) and the environment. This work provides qualitative inputs for a unique system dynamic model to represent and assess the lives, uses and resilience capacities of chicken and chicken products (feed, waste, processed chicken meals).
Closes 14 October 2024
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Research Assistant (Public Contracts)
The CCRI is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to support the delivery of several Defra, Natural England and other funded research projects in the UK. All of the projects concern the relationship between land management (agriculture, forestry and conservation) and the environment, often through the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policy in England and Wales.
The post holder will be working with project lead Associate Professor Chris Short and the CCRI leads of the other research projects. The role will involve an understanding of land management, especially agriculture and conservation, and undertaking face-to-face interviews with farmers, land managers, environmental organisations and scientists. This work provides the quantitative and qualitative data covering attitudinal behaviour, the collection of citizen-led science data and designing monitoring and evaluation programmes.
Closes 21 October 2024