Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - Environmental Management (2 positions)
School of Environment
The University of Auckland, New Zealand

The University of Auckland invites applications for two positions in the general field of Environmental Management with a focus on sustainability. The successful candidates will be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level within the School of Environment (ENV) which is located in the Faculty of Science.

Environmental Management is expanding as an area of study within the School and elsewhere in the University, as is its profile at regional and national levels. The School wishes to develop its contribution to that area and to better address theoretical and applied debates about sustainability in a broad environmental management context. It seeks to develop a research and teaching team with a passion for understanding the social dimensions of transitioning to sustainable development. The School will consider applicants who have an interest in the debates surrounding the assessment and promotion of sustainability, but it is particularly interested in applicants with expertise in one or more of the following areas of research and teaching: (1) critique of the corporate response to sustainability and in distinguishing the social foundations for sustainable production and consumption, (2) policy, educative or civic approaches to encouraging pro-environmental behaviour, enhancing environmental citizenship or building community capacity for social transitions and (3) trans-boundary and integrated environmental management and complexity in relation to environmental management issues.

Applicants should have a strong theoretical grounding of relevance to environmental management and in particular sustainability. They will hold a PhD in geography, environmental management or a cognate discipline, and will have developed a research portfolio in environmental policy studies, social change for sustainability, sustainable production and consumption systems or complexity and environmental management. The successful applicants will be expected to develop undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, supervise research students and contribute to teaching in a range of cognate areas within the School. Evidence of an ability to attract research funding, publish in leading peer-reviewed journals, build research collaborations and to engage with stakeholders beyond The University is desirable.

The School of Environment includes academics from a wide range of backgrounds including ecology, physical and human geography, geology, environmental science and environmental management. Staff within the School are prominent in a range of national and international research programmes involving collaborators in universities, government research institutes and industry.

Further details about this position may be obtained by visiting the University’s Job Opportunities web site: https://www.opportunities.auckland.ac.nz/. Information on the School of Environment can be found at www.env.auckland.ac.nz.  Closing date  16 March 2012