Deadline- January 15, 2013
Brock/Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC) is pleased to announce postdoctoral fellowship opportunity in the fields of Climate Change Adaptation & Water Governance (CADWAGO) project which is funded by trio of European Foundations (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Compagnia di San Paolo and VolkwagenStiftung), the project will develop the knowledge base and capacity to adapt to climate change through improved water governance approaches. CADWAGO brings together 10 partners from Europe, Australasia and North America who have extensive social science research experience in climate change adaptation and water governance issues, thereby extending the collective global knowledge base through sharing methods and findings. CADWAGO builds on the lessons from on-going and recent research cases to create a forum and dialogue between researchers and stakeholders at different scales.
The postdoctoral fellow will be responsible for the following activities-
- Developing good working relations with other CADWAGO researchers in Europe, Australia and Canada.
- Working with two other Post Doctoral Fellows (at Open University, UK and University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) as a Community of Practice.
- Collecting and analyzing data for the Niagara (Great Lakes) case
- Facilitating the collection of data from the cases and analyzing it to understand how the ecological system is perceived.
- Undertaking cross-case comparisons of the perceptions using resilience typologies.
- Evaluating the implications of those perceptions for water governance.
- Planning meetings, conference calls, and other forms of communications central to the project.
- Preparing project-based materials and scholarly outputs (e.g., conference presentations, journal articles, book chapters).
Eligibility & Criteria
- PhD in relevant field or equivalent
- Excellent written and oral communication skills as evidenced by publications
- Strong intellectual background relating to water governance and climate change adaptation as well as the conceptual lens outlined in the particular work package
- Ability to work effectively in complex team relationships, with differing scientific and cultural contexts
- Ability to organise workloads and work to challenging targets and deadlines
- Willingness and flexibility to travel
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