The Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water (Climate + Co-Centre) is seeking to recruit an experienced and motivated Research Fellow to play an active role as part of the research team at Queen’s University Belfast.
The Climate + Co-Centre is an exciting new tri-jurisdictional initiative spanning Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, which is managed jointly by QUB and Trinity College Dublin, and funded by Research Ireland, DAERA and UKRI. The Climate + Co-Centre is the home of research, innovation, and policy development across the interlinked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water degradation on the islands of Ireland and Britain, with the goal of integrating research across both islands to address these crises.
This Research Fellowship will contribute mainly to a project on projecting biodiversity change. In this project we aim to forecast global vegetation responses driven by climate, land use, and traits, and apply these projections to enable population risk forecasting. We will apply the Global Warming Levels and “storyline” climate projections produced for Ireland and the UK with our biodiversity models to project effects of these new projections on the types of species that will occur under these new climatic conditions and their dynamics. There is a possibility to look at animal responses in addition to vegetation.
The post will be part of the School of Biological Sciences at QUB but will work as part of a multi-disciplinary and inclusive team based in the dedicated Climate + Co-Centre Hub. The successful candidate will have responsibilities in independent research, supervision, planning, collaborations, and outreach.
About the person:
The successful candidate must have, and our application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following essential criteria:
To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.
This post is available for 2 years or until 31 December 2029, whichever is soonest. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.
What we offer:
Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/.
Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.
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Candidate Information
