Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pollution and Coastal Risk

About the Role

The School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is seeking to appoint a Post Doctoral Research Associate in Pollution and Coastal Risk.

The post-holder will play a significant and central role in a major new £3m multi-disciplinary project entitled “Resilience of Anthropocene Coasts and Communities (RACC): assessing and responding to urban and post-industrial coastal risks”. The project is part of a larger research programme and will investigate the interlinked risks of climate change, coastal flooding and erosion, and the UK’s historic waste legacy to develop coastal community and ecosystem resilience.

The major task for this postdoctoral researcher will be to map and understand the impacts and pathways of pollution associated with the flooding and erosion of historic coastal landfills. The researcher will work alongside four other postdoctoral researchers working broadly on community engagement, risk data synthesis, natural capital accounting and socioeconomics within the same project.

About You

The candidate should hold a PhD (or close to completion) or research qualification/experience equivalent to PhD level in the relevant subject area for the research programme. The successful candidate will have laboratory analysis skills using ICP-OES, ICP-MS, XRD, and other related analytical methods.

Knowledge of policy and practice in coastal management, especially in the context of pollution management and experience of field data collection and sample collection are also key requirements for the role. 

About the School

The School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London is internationally recognized for its theoretically informed, empirically grounded, and politically engaged research, and remains one of the top departments for Geography and Environmental Sciences in the UK.

The School was positioned joint seventh in the UK for the quality of our research in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021).

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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