Postdoctoral Researcher (Health & Environment)
University of Edinburgh - Geosciences
Centre for Research on Environment Society & Health (CRESH)
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £30,728 to £36,661 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Contract / Temporary
Placed on: 12th June 2014
Closes: 15th July 2014
Job Ref: 030564
We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of
‘Health and the Environment’ for a period of 18 months. Based at the
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh you will join the Centre
for Research on Environment, Society and Health (CRESH) which is a
virtual centre connecting scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh
and Glasgow. Our research is focused on exploring how physical and
social environments can influence population health, for better and for
worse.
The successful candidates will contribute to two projects concerned with
environments, health and inequalities. First, a project funded by the
European Research Council entitled ‘Physical Built Environment and
Health Inequalities’. Utilising secondary datasets, the focus of the
research programme is examining the relationship between health-related
behaviours, mental health, and the influence of built and physical
environments in shaping these. Second, a study funded by NERC entitled
‘AWESOME’ (Air pollution and Weather-related health impacts:
methodological study based on Spatio-temporally disaggregated
multi-pollutant models for present-day and future). The postholder will
contribute to a strand of the work concerned with understanding the
socio-economic variations in exposure and disease burden.
You will be a self-motivated individual with the ability to take
responsibility for key components of the research plan. You will lead
the identification and refinement of research questions, as well as
developing innovative methodological approaches. The role will require
you to undertake detailed literature reviews, identify suitable
secondary datasets, as well as generate and undertake an analysis plan.
There are considerable opportunities to shape the details of the
research agenda and develop new proposals for research funding.
Fixed Term for 18 months.
Closing Date: 15-JUL-2014 at 5pm GMT
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIY871/postdoctoral-researcher-health-and-environment/
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Jamie Pearce
Professor of Health Geography
Head of Institute, Geography & the Lived Environment
School of GeoSciences
University of Edinburgh
Drummond Street
Edinburgh EH8 9XP
Tel: + 44 131 650 2294
Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health (CRESH)
http://cresh.org.uk/
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