Senior Research Associate - Land Use Resource & Engagement (RA2271)

The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia is recruiting a Senior Research Associate to support the development of land use intervention scenarios that meet UK net zero, biodiversity and food security targets.

In this role you will be responsible for identifying and curating a suite of land use interventions for the UK and communicating these across an interdisciplinary research and stakeholder team. These land use interventions will be used within the wider project to assess future land use scenarios for the UK.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience of independent research related to land use change, land use management, climate change, or scenario development. Experience working with, and communicating between, a range of disciplines including working with modelling teams will be valuable for the role. The tasks will involve identifying, extracting, and collating existing land use interventions applicable in the UK from policy documents, academic publications, and through work with project partners and stakeholders including those from the wider Land Use for Net Zero Hub and associated research projects.

You will lead on ensuring that land use interventions used throughout the project are well represented by the modelling teams, well documented, and well communicated within the project, and externally with stakeholders. This requires excellent communication skills and a deep knowledge and understanding of land use change and land use management. You will also be coordinating the projects engagement with policy and land management stakeholder organisations for consultation and coproduction with expertise that sits outside of academia, for effective and useful interdisciplinary research.

As a Senior Research Associate you will be working on the Open_LAND project which is associated with the UKRI Land use for net zero, nature & people (LUNZ) hub. You will have a postgraduate level qualification, equivalent qualification or experience in a relevant research area. You will also have experience of independent research and have or be working towards publications in respected journals or equivalent within the field, and be able to work in a proactive and results driven manner.

This full-time post is available on a fixed term basis for 24 months. We encourage applications from individuals who would prefer working part-time, minimum 0.6 FTE will be considered. If part-time working is offered the fixed term duration will be extended to reflect this, with the end date subject to grant funding.