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Dear Colleagues Apologies for cross-posting. Please bring this job opportunity to the notice of well qualified individuals. We are looking for a Research Associate to join us in Newcastle upon Tyne for the emBRACE Project www.embrace-eu.org. Details are pasted in below and further details are available via this link: <http://work4.northumbria.ac.uk/hrvacs/eae1201> http://work4.northumbria.ac.uk/hrvacs/eae1201 The deadline for applications is 5 September 2012. Regards Maureen _____ Maureen Fordham BSc PhD University of Northumbria, School of the Built and Natural Environment, D220 Ellison Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK. Telephone: +44 (0)191 227 3757 | Email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] | Gender and Disaster Network <https://owa.northumbria.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.gdnonlin e.org> www.gdnonline.org | Radix - Radical Interpretations of Disaster <https://owa.northumbria.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.radixonl ine.org> www.radixonline.org | emBRACE - Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe <https://owa.northumbria.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.embrace- eu.org> www.embrace-eu.org | Join the emBRACE DISASTER-RESILIENCE Discussion List <https://owa.northumbria.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://www.jiscmai l.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DISASTER-RESILIENCE> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DISASTER-RESILIENCE Skype: maureen.fordham Postgraduate Research Associate – emBRACE Project Grade: 5 Salary: £25,449 - £30,929 School of the Built and Natural Environment Ref: EAE12/01 emBRACE - Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe -- is a four-year EU/FP7 - Collaborative Project under the Seventh Framework Programme (www.embrace-eu.org). The Project aims to improve the pan-European framing of the resilience concept through interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative disasters research. The project will develop a conceptual and methodological approach to clarify how the resilience capacity of a society confronted with natural hazards and disasters can be characterized, defined and measured. emBRACE is a collaborative project involving 10 European partners for which Northumbria University is the joint Coordinator. This is a post which requires both academic and administrative abilities. You will be required to work closely with your administrative/financial counterpart in Brussels, with the emBRACE Consortium members, and with external advisory/consultative group members. You will play a significant role in project managing delivery of the research outputs and ensuring the Consortium meets the objectives of the project. You will take a leading role in primary data gathering and analysis in two case study areas in the North East and North West of England. In addition you must have good interpersonal and presentation skills, as well as the capacity to engage, deliver and disseminate a programme of research and produce high quality outputs. For an informal discussion, please contact the Scientific Coordinator of the project, Dr Maureen Fordham, Principal Lecturer in Disaster Management, on +44 (191) 227 3757, or email [log in to unmask] For further details please visit: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sobe Closing date: 5 September 2012 Selection date: 17/09/2012 If you would like to apply, please send your completed Application Form to [log in to unmask] quoting the reference number. 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The List is managed by Maureen Fordham, John Twigg and Hugh Deeming - The emBRACE project has received funding from the European Community‘s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 283201. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information shared on this list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~