Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Net+ Centre)

This full-time, three-year fixed term post is available immediately at the Centre for Net Positive Health and Climate Solutions (Net+ Centre).

We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part-time hours or job-sharing arrangements.

The post

We are looking to recruit a Research Fellow to join the recently launched Centre for Net Positive Health and Climate Solutions (Net+ Centre). The Net+ Centre is led from the European Centre for Environment and Human Health on Penryn Campus, however hybrid working is welcome.

The Net+ Centre launched on 1^st of October 2024 and is a five-year research centre funded by UKRI. It is led by the University of Exeter alongside core partners at the UK Health Security Agency, The National Trust and Forest Research (and many other partners across sectors). The key aim of the Net+ Centre is to establish interdisciplinary research infrastructure, partnerships and capacity that will proactively deliver novel, impactful research on climate change and health with a focus on environmental-social-health inequalities. Key topics include resilient green and blue infrastructure, resilient urban environments and resilient food systems.

The Research Fellow will be based at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, who leads the Net+ Centre, on Penryn Campus (hybrid working is welcome). As one of the first of a cohort of research fellows employed across the Centre and Faculties and Departments of the University of Exeter and the partner UKHSA, the successful applicant will undertake research across several projects and with research fellows at Exeter and UKHSA that will initiate further projects across the Centre. The successful applicant will help to plan and delivery high quality research, particularly feeding into two of the Centre’s objectives of: 1) conceptualising and identifying key issues and priorities in climate change and health and map complex systems, structures and values that underpin them; and 2) understanding current and potential health and environmental impacts of adaptation and mitigation approaches within critical systems (urban, green/blue infrastructure and food systems) across the life course.

About you

The successful applicant will possess a relevant PhD or equivalent qualification/experience in public health or environmental research. We are looking for an experienced researcher who has strong methodological knowledge and experience in systems thinking approaches and evidence review and an interest in policy analysis in the field of public health and climate/environmental change. The successful applicant will be able to work collaboratively across interdisciplinary research teams and across sectors.

Please ensure you read the Job Description for full details of this role.

What we can offer you

• Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research
• Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly
• An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development
• Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career
• A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26wks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6wks full pay), and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Cornwall

Further information

Please contact Prof Conny Guell, c.guell@exeter.ac.uk or Professor Catherine Butler, c.butler@exeter.ac.uk.

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