Job details
- Salary: Full time F grade salary equates to: £32,982-£37,099
- Contractual hours: 27.75
- Basis: Part time
- Region: Temporary – Part time
- Job Type: Academic
- Job reference: R07578
- Attachments: R07578 – Grade F Research Associate generic – job description_Climate Collaboratorium_TOPCOPY (1).pd
- Information for Applicants – CATE.pdf
Job description
About this role
The Centre for Water, Community and Resilience (CWCR), based at UWE Bristol, seeks a Research Associate (0.75 FTE) to support the ESRC-funded Climate Collaboratorium project. “Climate Collaboratorium: Co-creation of Applied Theatre Decision Labs for Exploring Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation” is a three-year project funded through the New Frontiers in Research Fund 2023 (International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Call). The UK funder is ESRC.
The project will co-create and co-evaluate the participatory performative processes that integrate design thinking in its four case-study community settings. The team will provide input into negotiations about local climate change adaptation strategies. This post supports the UK research process in the River Severn catchment, community and other stakeholder engagement and collaboration/ sharing across international partners.
The project is running for three years from September 2024 to August 2027. Thie interdisciplinary project involves collaboration with a research team led by the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, along with US and German partners. This post is to support co-development of the hybrid participatory methods in Climate Collaboratorium that combine deep mapping, design thinking and drama. In the UK, the community participation processes will be developed and delivered working with less heard groups in two river-side towns within the River Severn catchment.
Background information about the CLIMATE COLLABORATORIUM project:
Climate change is having a detrimental impact on the physical and socioeconomic systems that are crucial for the well-being of vulnerable groups living in flood-prone and water insecure regions worldwide. The objective of this international collaboration is to use design thinking workshops facilitated with bias and inclusivity experts to co-develop adaptation and mitigation options based on salient place-based climate change scenarios, working with more marginalised communities. The scenarios and mitigation options will become plot points in applied theatre productions where audiences will decide on preferred actions and thereby direct the outcome of the play.
Blending design thinking, applied theatre, natural and climate science, researchers within the Climate Collaboratorium project will create novel touring plays in water insecure regions. Design thinking workshops and the plays will be embedded with social science tools to capture, analyze, and enhance the coproduction of new knowledge such as bespoke scenarios, and place-based adaptation and mitigation options to be shared with policy makers in each region. The applied theatre will bring audiences into decision spaces where they consider a range of locally relevant options for mitigation and adaptation to enhance water security in their local watersheds.”
The Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience
The Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience promotes world-class, interdisciplinary research of extreme weather and water risk, vulnerabilities and what makes communities resilient. This project forms part of a thematic area of work around children, complex risks and resilience. Further information about the Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience can be found at Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience (CWCR) – Research centres and groups | UWE Bristol
About you
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly self-motivated candidate to join us, in an international research project involving co-working between climate scientists, social scientists and drama specialists. You should have a sufficient breadth or depth of specialist knowledge and expertise in at least one related discipline or an (inter)disciplinary area (e.g. human or environmental geography, environmental humanities, drama and community arts). You will have a relevant master’s-level qualification or equivalent experience. You will be a team player who can collaborate well with other researchers and with the ability to work across disciplines and with a range of different community groups, NGOs and professional stakeholders in water security/ climate change adaptation.
Where is this role based?
This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.
We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in Bristol, one of the UK’s most exciting and forward-thinking cities, we are regionally embedded and globally connected, with an established network of employer and academic partners.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.
We also provide a tailored professional programme to support our academic colleagues in delivering the highest in professional teaching standards.
Add your individuality to ours
UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community.
We are proud to be part of a vibrant, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we’re always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving. Bring your talent and ambition to our growing community and find yourself in a stimulating and supportive environment where you’ll thrive.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Multiple Heritage or Other Minority Ethnic and female candidates as we are currently under-represented in these areas within UWE Bristol, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.
As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.
Further information
Further enquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Lindsey McEwen (Lindsey.McEwen@uwe.ac.uk; 0117 32 83383)
This is a fixed-term post until August 2027 and is part-time working on a 0.75 FTE contract. This post is not available on a job share basis.
Interviews are planned for week commencing 16th September.
UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based for two days per week, with the opportunity to work from home on the remaining days.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route as this role is part time so the salary would not meet the minimum requirements. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.
Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to provide your right to work documents at your interview. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable.
Please note that UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.
You may also wish to explore other visa options which you are eligible for which will allow you to work in the UK.
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