Research Fellow in Water and Food System Resilience - Cranfield University
School of Water, Energy and Environment, Water/ Cranfield Water Science Institute
Location: Cranfield
Salary: £31,620 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Placed on: 25th July 2016
Closes: 22nd August 2016
Job Ref: 2242
(3 year Fixed Term Contract)
Location: Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Here at Cranfield, we can offer you the opportunity and resources to really develop your career.
We already have 70 years of successful research and teaching behind us, all based on the knowledge, skills and abilities of our staff and our undoubted ability to partner with and develop our post-graduate students. We host a suite of unique, near industrial-scale facilities that attract funding from the agrifood sector and we lead strategic partnerships with the water and agrifood sectors and Research Councils.
We are seeking a talented and energetic early career researcher to join our team working on a major Global Food Security (GFS) Programme led project (funded by the UK Research Councils), and help develop new interdisciplinary and integrated understanding of the resilience of the UK fresh fruit & vegetable system (both domestic production and imported food) to water-related risks. The project will seek to understand how, and where, the fresh fruit and vegetable system is exposed to water-related risks and how the system can work together to become more resilient to water-related risks in the future.
You will be required to design and conduct farm surveys of water efficiency, vulnerability and resilience in South & East England, develop tools for the assessment of resilience to water-related risk and analyse data on UK fresh fruit and vegetable production and imports to identify the exposure to water-related risk, and will therefore require quantitative skills to analyse spatially explicit production and trade data and apply LCA approaches. You will also support technical workshops to explore the meaning of “resilience” to relevant stakeholders, both in the UK and South Africa.
You will have a PhD in Environmental Science, Agriculture, Horticulture or related discipline with a strong understanding of sustainability in the agrifood sector. You should be a self-directed and well organised researcher with an interest in environmental and business sustainability and food security.
If you have ambition to build your own reputation through research, an impressive publications record and a great student teaching approach, then we would like to hear from you.
For an informal discussion, please contact Dr Tim Hess, Associate Professor of Water Management, on +44 (0)1234 758305 or (E); t.hess@cranfield.ac.uk.
Apply online now at www.cranfield.ac.uk/hr or contact us for further details on E: hr@cranfield.ac.uk or T: +44 (0)1234 750111 Ext. 2349. For any enquiries, please quote reference number 2242.
Interview date: 5 September 2016
Location: Cranfield
Salary: £31,620 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Placed on: 25th July 2016
Closes: 22nd August 2016
Job Ref: 2242
(3 year Fixed Term Contract)
Location: Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Here at Cranfield, we can offer you the opportunity and resources to really develop your career.
We already have 70 years of successful research and teaching behind us, all based on the knowledge, skills and abilities of our staff and our undoubted ability to partner with and develop our post-graduate students. We host a suite of unique, near industrial-scale facilities that attract funding from the agrifood sector and we lead strategic partnerships with the water and agrifood sectors and Research Councils.
We are seeking a talented and energetic early career researcher to join our team working on a major Global Food Security (GFS) Programme led project (funded by the UK Research Councils), and help develop new interdisciplinary and integrated understanding of the resilience of the UK fresh fruit & vegetable system (both domestic production and imported food) to water-related risks. The project will seek to understand how, and where, the fresh fruit and vegetable system is exposed to water-related risks and how the system can work together to become more resilient to water-related risks in the future.
You will be required to design and conduct farm surveys of water efficiency, vulnerability and resilience in South & East England, develop tools for the assessment of resilience to water-related risk and analyse data on UK fresh fruit and vegetable production and imports to identify the exposure to water-related risk, and will therefore require quantitative skills to analyse spatially explicit production and trade data and apply LCA approaches. You will also support technical workshops to explore the meaning of “resilience” to relevant stakeholders, both in the UK and South Africa.
You will have a PhD in Environmental Science, Agriculture, Horticulture or related discipline with a strong understanding of sustainability in the agrifood sector. You should be a self-directed and well organised researcher with an interest in environmental and business sustainability and food security.
If you have ambition to build your own reputation through research, an impressive publications record and a great student teaching approach, then we would like to hear from you.
For an informal discussion, please contact Dr Tim Hess, Associate Professor of Water Management, on +44 (0)1234 758305 or (E); t.hess@cranfield.ac.uk.
Apply online now at www.cranfield.ac.uk/hr or contact us for further details on E: hr@cranfield.ac.uk or T: +44 (0)1234 750111 Ext. 2349. For any enquiries, please quote reference number 2242.
Interview date: 5 September 2016