Location: | Durham |
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Salary: | £37,099 to £44,263 per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 11th September 2024 |
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Closes: | 14th October 2024 |
Job Ref: | 24001657 |
The Role
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the AHRC/Belmont Forum-funded project ‘Biocultural adaptation of resource management traditions under the effects of climate change’. The project is an international, interdisciplinary collaboration between Durham University (UK), the RAND Corporation (USA), the University of Zurich (Switzerland), and the Hoonah Indian Association. It aims to understand the ways in which the transmission of indigenous ecological knowledge may provide a source of resiliency, mitigation, and adaptation to the effects of climate change through a comparative study of four sites: Hoonah AK, Zhetysu Kazakhstan, Chiapas Mexico, and Khovd Mongoli.
The successful applicant will be expected to analyse mixed qualitative-quantitative data on the cultural transmission of indigenous ecological knowledge collected from the four sites, characterising and comparing patterns using appropriate statistical techniques, such as cultural evolutionary modeling, network analysis and cultural consensus analysis. They will work under the direction of the project UK PI, Professor Jamshid Tehrani, in collaboration with the consortium PI, Dr. Luke Matthews and other project Investigators
Key responsibilities:
This post is fixed term for 24 months. The project is time limited and will end when the funding expires in February 2027.
The post-holder is employed to work on research/a research project which will be led by the UK PI Professor Tehrani. Whilst this means that the post-holder will not be carrying out independent research in his/her/their own right, the expectation is that they will contribute to the advancement of the project, through the development of their own research ideas/adaptation and development of research protocols.
Successful applicants will, ideally, be in post by January 2025.
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