Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Societal Impacts of Extreme Heat Events in a Warming Climate

Job id: 089746. Salary: £43,205 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 17 May 2024. Closing date: 02 June 2024.

Business unit: Social Science & Public Policy. Department: School of Global Affairs School Office.

Contact details:Tom Matthews. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Category: Research.

The Department of Geography at King’s College London is a vibrant hub of multi-disciplinary scholarship that seeks to address and resolve the most pressing issues facing our world today. By drawing together a unique cohort of scholars, the Department includes expertise in global environmental governance, the physical and social science dimensions of climate change, cross-border migration, emerging economies, and politics.

The purpose of this role is to work on the UK Research and Innovation Future Leader’s Fellowship: Reducing Global Catastrophic Risks from Unseen Climate Extremes.

The appointed candidate will be embedded within a wider team of physical and social scientists working to identify the most pressing threats to humanity from ‘unseen’ climate extremes – those events which lack a historical precedent, but which could occur in the relatively near future.

The focus for this specific position will be on the societal impacts of extreme heat events, including those severe enough to overwhelm human physiology. Using the case study of Jacobabad, Pakistan (one of the hottest cities on earth), the appointed candidate will perform qualitative research to help improve understanding of the scale of the challenges ahead, and how they may be confronted through adaptation.

The researcher will also contribute their social science expertise to help the wider research team explore the most concerning unseen climate extremes which threaten our future.

This is a full-time post and you will be offered an a fixed term contract until June 2028.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria 

Desirable criteria

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