Postdoctoral Research Associate in Food System Resilience
4 weeks ago
We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our interdisciplinary team in the field of food system resilience. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of scenarios for potential food system transformation and work closely with policy partners and industry contacts to co-design and facilitate workshops to map systemic risks to UK food value chains.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and co-develop scenarios for potential food system transformation with key policy partners and industry contacts.
- Design and facilitate workshops to map systemic risks to UK food value chains, including interactions between environmental factors, socio-economic shocks, and geo-political shocks.
- Collate evidence statements to enable conversion of scenarios into specific shock values relevant for modeling in subsequent work packages.
- Assess broad interventions to increase resilience and screen these with policy partners in terms of their potential to provide wins in terms of enhancing both short and long-term resilience.
Requirements:
- PhD in a relevant field or equivalent attainment.
- Academic literature synthesis and writing skills.
- Knowledge of food system resilience.
- Motivation to engage in systems approaches to understand complex risks.
What We Offer:
- Support for visa fee and healthcare surcharge for international applicants.
Contact Information:
For further information, please contact Tom Oliver, Associate PVC for Research (Environment) & Professor of Applied Ecology, or Carol Wagstaff, Associate PVC for Research (Agriculture, Food & Health).
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