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ESRC CASE Studentship: Greening Neighbourhood Plans: Integrating Green Infrastructure into Community-led Planning
Deadline: 2nd February 2018
Location: University of Manchester, UK
Description: This full time, 1+3 PhD studentship, starting in September 2017, is fully funded by the ESRC CASE studentship scheme (ESRC NWSSDTP), together with the University of Manchester, University of Liverpool and the Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA). This PhD, will work with TCPA to explore the role of green infrastructure within developing neighbourhood plans in England. It will work with local communities, environmental and planning experts to examine how the socio-economic and ecological values of green infrastructure planning can be used to improve the sustainability credentials of neighbourhood plans. The first year of the studentship will be undertaken as an MSc in Research Methods at the University of Manchester. The subsequent three years of the PhD will be jointly supervised through Planning and Environmental Management, University of Manchester (Dr Ian Mell and Dr Anna Gilchrist), Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool (Dr John Sturzaker) and TCPA (Julia Thrift).

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Deadline: 21st January 2018
Location: University of Kent, UK
Description: An imaginative and high-calibre interdisciplinary social scientist is required to undertake world-leading research as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator project entitled ‘Environmental Spaces and the Feel-Good Factor: Relating Subjective Wellbeing to Biodiversity (RELATE)’. The post holder will be based at University of Kent, working with Prof. Zoe Davies and Dr. Robert Fish, but will also collaborate closely with project co-investigators Dr. Martin Dallimer at University of Leeds and Dr. Katherine Irvine at the James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen. As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will: explore human-biodiversity relationships, attitudes and values through a series of deliberative participatory workshops across the seasons; contribute to a configurative systematic review, which will underpin the development of a conceptual framework for considering human-biodiversity relationships; write high impact peer-reviewed papers and give presentations at academic conferences; exchange knowledge and collaborate with project partners from both within and external to academia (e.g. government agencies and non-governmental organisations).