PDRA in Glacimarine Sedimentology

The Role

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Sea Level, Ice Sheets and Climate research cluster in the Department of Geography at Durham University, working with Professor Colm O’Cofaigh for three years. The successful candidate will have expertise in glacial and glacimarine sedimentology and glacigenic sedimentary environments, as well as in the analysis of marine sediment cores, geochronologic data and marine geophysical data for the purposes of ice-sheet reconstruction. The candidate will be working with existing datasets from a number of different glaciated continental margins. There may also be opportunities for joining a research cruise during the period of the post. The job will entail analysis of a range of sedimentological and marine geophysical datasets, writing papers for publication and helping to contribute to grant proposal development and conference presentations. The post is fixed term for 36 months from 1^st January 2025 

The Department of Geography at Durham comprises 68 academic staff (approximately equally divided between physical and human geography), a graduate school of around 100 research students, around 40 taught postgraduate students and more than 650 undergraduates. The Department is well supported with technical staff, including a cartography unit, and administrative staff.

The Department was ranked joint first for research quality among UK geography departments in REF2021 and third for research power. With 54% of work assessed as being in the highest category, it produced the largest number of world-leading (4*) publications in the country. The most recent QS rankings for Geography placed Durham 14^th overall in the world, with over a decade in the top fifteen, and 3^rd for citations in the discipline. The department is recurrently ranked in the top handful of programmes in the UK by various league tables; in 2023, we were ranked 3^rd in the Complete University Guide.

Our aim is to sustain and support hubs of leadership in geographical scholarship – broadly conceived. We will maintain our reputation for theoretical and conceptual innovation so that we are shaping and leading debates globally.

We work across every continent and most major oceans, and embrace the full diversity of methods and data available to the discipline.

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