Current vacancies within the Department are posted here.
- ERC Project Co-ordinator (Part Time, Fixed Term)
- Research Associate (Fixed Term)
- University Assistant Professor in Glaciology
ERC Project Co-ordinator (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Salary: £24,285-£27,929 pro rata.
Applications are invited for the position of ERC Project Co-ordinator (part-time, upto 22 hpw) in the Department of Geography, and the role is available with immediate effect. The role is to coordinate and ensure the smooth and efficient running, on behalf of the Project Manager, of an ERC Grant: FORESTPOLICY - Identifying the conditions under which forest-focused supply chain policies lead to improved conservation and livelihoods: a pan-tropical analysis.
It will involve financial planning and organisation of activities, fieldwork, website and meetings, and undertaking project reporting and publicity. The project is based in Brazil, Ghana, and Indonesia, and involves a team consisting of the PI (Professor Rachael Garrett), two PDRAs and two PhD students. It will also entail some coordination of activities on related grants in the study regions, especially with regards to financial planning.
The successful applicant will have experience in research and an administrative role and be educated to level 4/5 vocational qualification or equivalent level of practical experience. You must be an experienced user of Microsoft Office, and have experience of website creation/editing/maintenance. You should also have excellent planning & organisational skills coupled with interpersonal & communication skills and be able to demonstrate factual & theoretical knowledge of Project Administration/Coordination.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 24 months in the first instance.
Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment. Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 24 months in the first instance.
Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment.
Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.
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Please quote reference LC35819 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Salary: £34,308-£42,155.
Applications are invited for a Post-doctoral Research Associate position in Paleoceanography, for a fixed-term of 22 months as part of the project Resolving asynchronous responses of North Atlantic climate to deglacial changes in ocean circulation (ASYNC) funded by NERC. The post holder will be based at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and will work under the guidance of Dr Francesco Muschitiello.
Greenland ice cores and North Atlantic marine records show clear evidence of concomitant rapid climate and deep-ocean circulation shifts during the last deglaciation. It is widely accepted that these climate shifts involved large variations in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) via changes in high-latitude North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation and export. However, due to intrinsic limitations with the precision and accuracy of paleoceanographic timescales, there remain fundamental uncertainties as to whether North Atlantic abrupt climate shifts were forced or reinforced by changes in deep-water circulation. The project will determine the response time of North Atlantic climate to changes in NADW flow by aligning the timescales of Greenland ice cores and North Atlantic marine records using ultra high-resolution reconstructions of meteoric 10Be ¿a globally synchronous signal of past solar activity.
The Post-doctoral Research Associate will employ the 10Be synchronization results to generate high-resolution records of ocean ventilation and deep-water flow from marine sediment cores from the Nordic Seas and northern North Atlantic over the last deglaciation. The successful candidate will have experience in many of the following areas including planktic and benthic foraminiferal speciation, stable isotope analyses, preparation of foraminifera for radiocarbon analysis, sortable silt grain-size analysis, age-depth modelling. The essential duties of the position are i) preparation of marine sediment samples for foraminiferal-based geochemical analyses, ii) speciation of foraminiferal samples, iii) conducting radiocarbon measurements with the mini carbon dating system (MICADAS). Other proxies and/or duties may be added during the project and the Post-doctoral Research Associate will be expected to actively participate in data processing and interpretation. The project will ultimately improve our understanding of the relative phasing between abrupt climate shifts and changes in NADW and AMOC strength during the last deglaciation.
Eligible candidates must have a PhD (or equivalent degree) in Physical Geography, Earth Science, or allied disciplines. A background in paleoceanography is essential. Proficiency using computing platforms and quantitative skills are desirable. They must be highly motivated and should have excellent time management, organisational and communication skills, and be able to work well as part of a team.
The successful candidate will be based in Cambridge where they will have the opportunity to participate in a wide range of activities within the Department of Geography, including the departmental 'Climate and Environmental Dynamics' research group, and reading groups and seminars across the University. They will also have the opportunity to train and mentor undergraduates in scientific research projects. Finally, they will join an international team of collaborators, i.e. Prof Christopher Bronk Ramsey (University of Oxford), Dr Derek Fabel (University of Glasgow), Dr Claire Waelbroeck (LSCE), Dr Markus Czymzik (Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research), Dr Trond Dokken (NORCE), and secondments to Oxford, Paris, and Bergen are expected over the course of the project for laboratory activities and meetings.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 22 months in the first instance.
Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment.
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Please quote reference LC35585 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
University Assistant Professor in Glaciology
Salary: £43,414-£54,949.
The Department of Geography wishes to appoint a University Assistant Professor in Glaciology. The post is available from 1 October 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter.
The successful candidate will be based in the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), a sub-department of Geography, and will hold teaching and administrative duties at SPRI and in the Department. The role-holder will be expected to contribute to the national and international reputation for excellence that the Department and the Institute hold for teaching and research in geography. In particular, the role-holder will undertake cutting-edge research that builds on the current interests of SPRI staff in glaciology and contemporary and future studies of the cryosphere.
Candidates should hold a PhD in a relevant discipline and will have an academic record appropriate for their career stage, including high-quality research publications, have a proven record of winning research grants and/or the ability to formulate research projects such as will attract funding from research councils, educational charities, or other grant-awarding organisations, and a growing international research reputation.
Candidates should regard themselves as either being, or having the strong potential to be, enthusiastic and effective educators, willing and able to teach introductory and integrative courses to first- and second-year undergraduates, as well as more specialist topics at final-year undergraduate and Masters levels, in particular to the MPhil in Polar Studies. They will also be able to contribute to methods teaching (e.g., field, modelling, computational, laboratory) and to recruit and supervise postgraduate students and contribute, as appropriate, to the academic administration of SPRI, the Department and the University.
Further information about the post is available at the link below.
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Please provide a curriculum vitae (with information on research interests, publications, research funding obtained, and relevant teaching and other experience) and a covering letter in the 'Upload' section of the online application. In the covering letter, you are encouraged to explain how you match the person specification provided and how you see your research and teaching interests contributing to the Department's existing activities. We require full contact details of three referees, at least two of whom we may contact if you are shortlisted for interview.
Interviews for shortlisted candidates are expected to take place in Cambridge on 14 and 15 June 2023.
Please quote reference LC35967 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.