Neil Adger writes to announce three exciting research positions at UEA.

Three Lecturer Posts Ref: ATR842 (£37,651 to £43,622 per annum)

These new academic staff appointments at UEA have been created as a result of substantial new investments in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The posts offer excellent opportunities for continuing, or developing, internationally outstanding research careers UEA is the Headquarters of the Tyndall Centre which includes the universities of Manchester, Southampton, Oxford, Newcastle, Sussex and Cambridge. At UEA, the Tyndall Centre’s interdisciplinary activities span the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Social Sciences. These new positions will be based alongside existing Tyndall colleagues within the School of Environmental Sciences.

You must have a PhD (or equivalent) in an appropriate discipline in physical, natural, or social science, ideally with research interests in one or more of: land use and climate change; food security and climate change; mitigation, adaptation and behavioural change; energy and climate security; climate change and prosperity, and you must also be able to satisfy all other essential elements of the person specification. Applications from candidates with research interests in other climate-related areas will also be considered.

Closing date: 12 noon on 30 November 2009.

Further particulars and an application form are available on the UEA website www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs/ or Tel. + 44 (0)1603 593493. Ref: ATR842 (£37,651 to £43,622 per annum)