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Lecturership (x2) in Sustainability 50th Anniversary Lectureships Starting Salary between £33,242 - £39,685* Closing Date: Sunday 22 February 2015 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: A1147 https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A1147 This full-time research-focused post (equivalent to Assistant Professor) is designed to identify academic leaders of the future and is part of the University's long-term investment to further strengthen its academic standing as a world class University. The Rubin Foundation Charitable Trust has generously agreed to fund the creation of The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business and the Rubin Chair in Sustainability in [...]

Applications are invited for a Senior Research Associate to work on the project Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR), funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) working with Dr Roger Few. This position is based at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK. The post holder will take a full intellectual role in the development and conduct of ASSAR research and research-into-use activities in East Africa. You must have a PhD or equivalent qualification in environment and development, experience of research or applied work on climate [...]

Invitation: Organisational Responses to Social-Ecological Complexity  12 February 2015, UCT Graduate School of Business You are invited to a discussion hosted by the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) Chair on organisational innovation and intermediation in social-­ecological systems. We seek a better theoretical and practically relevant understanding of why and how organisations – including in particular corporations and intermediaries – proactively respond to complex social and environmental problems. Researchers in the ACDI Chair will provide brief overviews of their analyses as a platform for discussion among researchers and practitioners. Kindly RSVP by 31 January 2015 to Lindie Botha at [...]

Applications are invited for a one year post doctoral fellowship in the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University. The candidate will join a vibrant research community in the department, and will work primarily on a project entitled: Fostering community based ecosystem stewardship in conjunction with ecological restoration efforts. The project will feed directly into an applied context where restoration efforts are underway in a communal area in South Africa. Suitably qualified candidates should have a background in community based research contexts, and preferably display a strong understanding of participatory development processes in developing countries. The [...]

The call for applications for the 3rd round of scholarship awards by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now open. Deadline: 15 Feb 2015. Candidates must be a citizen of a developing country and be no more than 30 years of age at the time of application. Candidates must have an admissions offer for PhD studies or be currently studying at PhD level at a university of their choice. Research proposals accepted for the third round of awards will fall under the following themes of study: * Climate [...]