Postdoctoral Research Assistant (111629-0726)

Informal Queries

• For informal queries, please contact Dr Hita Unnikrishnan, Assistant Professor - Institute for Global Sustainable Development, at Hita.Unnikrishnan@warwick.ac.uk

Flexible Working

• We will consider applications for employment on a lower part-time or other flexible working basis (e.g. job share).

About the Role  

The Institute for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick is recruiting a postdoctoral research assistant to undertake research to support the work of the British Academy funded Building Resilience through Equitable Action on Temperature, Heat, and indoor Emissions (BREATHE) research project.

The key duties of the PDRA will be to assist the Principal Investigator to develop scientific publications related to project research, undertake some administrative duties, and, where appropriate, assist and collaborate with other project collaborators in the successful execution of the project.

Building Resilience through Equitable Action on Temperature, Heat, and indoor Emissions (BREATHE) is a two-year research project led by Dr. Hita Unnikrishnan at The University of Warwick, and co-led by Dr. Lavanya Suresh (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus), Dr. Manik Gupta (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus), and Dr. Deepshikha Batheja (One Health Trust).

BREATHE investigates how historical and intersectional inequalities influence differential experiences of heat stress and indoor air pollution (IAP) among members of peri-urban households within the global south. It works with the hypothesis that women and vulnerable members of traditionally patriarchal households are likely to experience intensified effects of heat stress and IAP than their male counterparts. This inequality in lived experiences, we argue, is due to intersections between patriarchal norms that transform households into secondary gendered spaces of production, perpetuation of colonial architectural ideals, and usage of unclean cooking fuels within these homes.

Interdisciplinary BREATHE investigates this intersection for the very first time by combining historical research with large household surveys, satellite data analysis and machine learning models in two heat stressed, peri-urban regions of South Indian Karnataka (Bidar, Chikkaballapur districts). Working with different stakeholders in these regions, BREATHE will both facilitate and autoethnographically analyze processes and barriers to co-creating equitable climate futures.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of the funding, the project cannot provide sponsorship for a visa granting entitlement to work in the UK and so the role is open only to those with an existing right to work in the UK.

About You  

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