Research Associate

Cardiff University wishes to recruit a Research Associate to work on a project ‘Overcoming scale-mismatch for designing and governing treescape expansion to benefit people and nature’. As the Research Associate you will work within an interdisciplinary team of researchers investigating how treescape expansion, in combination with other land use/management changes, can deliver a net zero UK land sector. You will be expected to conduct research within environmental policy and governance on different stakeholder interests and how the expansion of treescapes can be designed and governed across local, regional, and national scales to achieve the best outcomes for people and nature. Alongside you will contribute to the overall research performance of the School and University, leading to the publishing of high-quality research and to pursue excellence in research and to inspire others to do the same.

This is a full-time post, 35 hours per week, fixed term from 1st February 2023 to 31st January 2025.

Salary: £35,333 - £42,155 per annum (Grade 6)

Responsible to Professor Susan Baker, Principal Investigator.

For further information contact Professor Baker, BakerSCM@cardiff.ac.uk

Closing date: Thursday, 16 February 2023

Please be aware that Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Cardiff University is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions we will evaluate applicants on the quality of their research, not publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which the research is published. More information is available at: Responsible research assessment - Research - Cardiff University

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