Research Fellow in Ethnoclimatology of Climate Risk in the Arctic

Location: Leeds - Main Campus

Working time: 100% - we will consider job share/flexible working arrangements

Contract type: Fixed term (from 6^th January 2025 to 5^th January 2028 - to complete specific time limited work)

Are you an interdisciplinary scholar interested in how climate change is being experienced and responded to in the Arctic? Are you looking to work closely with Inuit communities, and bridge science and Indigenous knowledge in climate risk research? Do you want to advance a cutting-edge ethnoclimatology of climate risk approach? Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you want an exciting opportunity to advance your career in one of the UK's leading research intensive universities, based in scenic Yorkshire?

The recently funded ETHNO-CLIM project is developing new conceptual and methodological tools to understand how different cultures encounter, perceive, adapt to, and interact with climate change. Collaborating with Inuit communities in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, the project specifically focuses on the use of trails in a rapidly warming Arctic, combining both ‘bottom-up’ participatory modelling of current and projected climate-risk, and storytelling and visioning to create scenarios of future risk. You will join an international and cross-cultural research team and will be responsible for leading the research in one of the study regions, working with the team to combine Indigenous knowledge and science to understand and model potential risk trajectories. You will be expected to spend considerable time doing fieldwork, co-developing the research with local partners, and conducting interviews, focus groups, and participatory modelling.   

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance– the University contributes 14.5% of salary.
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Professor James Ford, Priestley Chair in Climate Adaptation

Email: j.ford2@leeds.ac.uk

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