Postdoctoral Research Associate - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About us
The School of Global Affairs (SGA) in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at King’s is a dynamic hub of multi-disciplinary scholarship that seeks to address the pressing issues facing our world today, including climate change, inequality and global health.
At King’s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practices into all our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming, and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. King’s offers inclusive benefits to staff, including flexible working, Enhanced Parental Leave, funds for Parents and Carers, and the potential to join community staff networks.
About the role
The Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA), based in the Geography Department at King’s College London, will be responsible for enabling and supporting the development of a co-production approach for the Climate Change Resilient Equitable Healthy Cities in Africa (CLARITY-Africa) programme. The post holder will coordinate implementation of participative research and engagement in CLARITY workstreams, monitoring and reporting on the impacts of the research to participants and for academic audiences. The PDRA will collaborate actively with research partners in Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa, and stakeholders in focal cities. The co-production approach developed in CLARITY will build on the ‘loops and building blocks’ approach developed in the earlier PATHWAYS project (Audia et al., 2021) and on the CityLabs concept developed by the African Centre for Cities (UCT).
The CLARITY programme aims to generate novel transdisciplinary knowledge and trigger policies and practices that enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to the health effects of climate change in Africa’s cities. In partnership with policy and societal partners in four cities in Ghana (Accra and Tamale) and Rwanda (Kigali and Musanze), the project will co-produce novel and transformative knowledge on how climate change affects environmental risk exposures, and those who are vulnerable to such risks. The project will identify existing and new technologies, infrastructures, policies and practices that can enhance resilience and support adaptation to climate-change-induced health risks, and evaluate their feasibility, efficacy, enablers and equity in our focal cities.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30th April 2027.
