Research Fellow

4 months ago


Belfast, United Kingdom Queen's University Belfast Full time

The Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water is seeking to recruit an experienced and motivated Research Fellow to play an active role as part of a new research project team across several Schools at Queen’s University Belfast. The Co-Centre is an exciting new tri-jurisdictional initiative spanning Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, which is managed jointly by QUB and Trinity College Dublin and funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), DAERA and UKRI.

The Co-Centre will seek to be the home of research, innovation, and policy development across the interlinked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water degradation on the islands of Ireland and Britain, with the goal of integrating research across both islands to address these crises. This Research Fellow role will contribute to two related projects:

Projecting vegetation change. Fluxes & stocks of carbon, biodiversity and water.

The post will be part of the School of Biological Sciences at QUB but will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team based in the dedicated Co-Centre Hub. The successful candidate will have responsibilities in independent research, supervision, planning, collaborations, and outreach and the post is available immediately.

About the person:

If you are interested in joining the new team then you should:

Hold or be about to obtain a PhD (must be obtained within 3 months of commencement of employment) in ecology or related field. Have substantial relevant research experience in (at least some of the following): GIS; geospatial modelling; ecological modelling; land use change and/or climate change impacts. Demonstrable evidence of skills and experience in (at least some of the following): evaluating evidence; data extraction and collation; data management and handling; synthesis; systematic reviews and/or meta-analysis; report writing and/or peer-reviewed publication.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

This post is available for 3 years. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.


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