Salary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)
This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.
Are you a conservation or sustainability scientist interested in understanding which environmental initiatives have the potential to make a difference in the real world? Would you like to work in a world-leading sustainability institute and be part of two international, interdisciplinary collaborations? Do you have excellent quantitative skills and an appetite for developing your own analyses?
We are seeking an experienced Research Fellow to assess the impact of European conservation and sustainability initiatives on global biodiversity, carbon stocks, and people. You will be part of the UKRI-funded JUSTLANZ and EU-funded SafeNet projects, led by RSPB (UK) and LUKE (Finland) respectively.
JUSTLANZ aims to support a just transition to Net Zero in the UK livestock sector; SafeNet aims to support the conservation of biodiversity and carbon-rich forest ecosystems across Europe.
You will develop new methods to integrate quantitative and qualitative visions of the future and explore their local impacts, before integrating cutting-edge land use, trade, and economic data and models to estimate how changes in UK and EU land use could affect overseas land-use change, biodiversity, carbon stocks and socio-economic factors.
You will join the Life and Land research cluster in the Sustainability Research Institute – part of the School of Earth and Environment – and have close links to the Biosphere Atmosphere Group in the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, the Ecology and Evolution Group (School of Biology), the RSPB, and the wider project networks.
Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.
For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/global-talent
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.
And much more!
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
David Williams, Associate Professor
Email: d.r.williams@leeds.ac.uk