Jobs & Appointments

At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig, Germany (Department of Ecological Modelling) the Junior Research Group “”POLISES - Global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change” () funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is established. In this group the following vacancy is offered at the nearest possible date: ## PhD Position (m/f) ## Subject: Social-ecological impacts of financial risk- […]

The Research Associate will work with Prof Shane Johnson and Dr David Hudson on a project entitled “Migration Networks, Decisions and Immigration Policy”. The project will take a complex systems approach to the study of immigration policy with the aim of understanding migrants’ use of (off-line) social networks to learn about and adapt to changing legal environments. The project will involve the analysis of primary data collected through field experiments in Jamaica, and the use of agent- […]

http://cfusion.sph.emory.edu/PHEC/index.cfm?action=job_Details&JobID=46466 NYU - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE Post-doctoral position: Agent-based modeling of alcohol regulations DESCRIPTION: This 12 month full-time post- doctoral position would entail working with the project PIs, James Macinko (NYU Public Health) and Maurizio Porfiri (NYU Poly/Engineering),and joining a multidisciplinary research team […]

This is an exciting opportunity to join the City Sustainability Laboratory and to contribute to the research programme supported by the prestigious Leverhulme Programme Grant “Sustaining Urban Habitats: An Interdisciplinary Approach”. The aim of this programme is to develop a distinctively interdisciplinary approach to producing and evaluating scenarios for sustainable living in urban habitats. There is an urgent need to envision and investigate approaches to sustaining urban habitats; to […]

Funding is available for one post-doctoral fellowship with the Canadian Network for Aquatic Ecosystem Services (CNAES). The fellowship is based out of Western University in London, Ontario in collaboration with Alberta Innovates in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The project will involve scenario analysis to develop alternative futures of forest aquatic ecosystem services and assess the economic and ecological risks of policy options under alternative futures. The successful candidate will be […]

IFPRI VACANCY POSTING Position # 14-108 (N) (INTERNATIONALLY RECRUITED POSITION) TITLE: SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT LOCATION: WASHINGTON, DC DIVISION: ENVIRONMENT AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY REPORTS TO: ANDREW BELL, RESEARCH FELLOW, EPTD GRADE: 14B FLSA STATUS: EXEMPT POSTING DATE: FEBRUARY 6, 2014 CLOSING DATE: MARCH 6, 2014 OR UNTIL FILLED Job Summary: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as Senior Research Assistant in its Environment […]

Protecting Knowledge Diversity and Promoting Resilience: Modelling Mexican Marginal Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Application Deadline: 17 January 2014 Supervised by Dr. Garry Polhill, and Dr B Slee at the James Hutton Institute and co-supervised with Prof. Bruce Edmonds (http://bruce.edmonds.name/) at the Centre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org/), Manchester Metropolitan University (http://mmu.ac.uk/), and Dr. Matt Hare (http://www.seeconsult.org/en/index.php?page=matt-hare). ## […]

The James Hutton Institute Information and Computational Sciences Social Systems Simulation Modeller Salary Band E £35,282-£37,534 or Band D £27,792-£29,566 * Applications are invited for a Social Systems Modeller to join a small team of researchers applying agent-based social simulation to lifestyles, renewable energy and the low carbon economy. You will be developing and working with agent-based social simulation model(ler)s to feed into policy deliberation and complex multi-stakeholder […]

Research Fellow - Participatory Agent-Based Modelling Centre for Research in Social Simulation, University of Surrey Salary: up to GBP 29,541 per annum The Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems programme (ERIE) is a large project funded by EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science for the Real World’ theme that is addressing a series of fundamental questions about the application of complexity science to social and economic systems. The research aims to embed complexity science […]

Assistant Professor in Marine Economics and Policy The University of Maine invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Marine Economics and Policy, a nine-month (academic year) tenure track position with teaching (50%) and research (50%) responsibilities. The position is a joint (50/50) appointment between the Schools of Economics and Marine Sciences. Responsibilities: Develop a rigorous research program in marine economics and policy; actively engage in educating and […]