Research Associate in Urban Biodiversity & Nature-based Solutions

We have an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Architecture and Landscape. Join our major new inter-disciplinary NERC-funded project on biodiversity impacts of urban climate change adaptation at one of the UK’s leading Architecture and Landscape schools. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to generate high quality research and innovation, assessing urban biodiversity and the impacts of nature-based climate solutions.

Under the supervision of Tom Wild, and working in collaboration with the UKRI GP4Streets team, you will use ecological monitoring techniques, spatial analysis and statistical models, to assess the biodiversity impacts of urban greening and retrofitted interventions such as SUDS (sustainable urban drainage systems). Working with project partners you will use the results to establish if and how urban developments can be reimagined, to improve outcomes for nature. You will have strong ecological fieldwork experience, GIS skills and project planning expertise.

You will benefit from being a member of a world leading research group in a School consistently ranked in the top 5 in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF). The position offers the successful candidate a chance to benefit from a large, vibrant and supportive Early Career Researcher community, and inter-disciplinary collaborations with team members regularly publishing in top tier journals.

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

Find out more at www.sheffield.ac.uk/benefits and join us to become part of something special.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

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