"Post Doctoral Research Fellow"

About ARU:

ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a Gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). ARU’s research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields. We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities. Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK’s Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK’s leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK.

About the Role:

Based on our Cambridge campus the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) was established by Anglia Ruskin University in 2011 as part of our University’s commitment to sustainability in research, teaching and operations. We now have a core group of over 40 individuals including researchers, visiting and honorary fellows, project management staff and doctoral students. The GSI has won funding from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation to collaborate with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA)—a professional body which educates and regulates Actuaries—to highlight the global, systemic risk arising from nature and biodiversity loss.

We are now seeking to employ a postdoctoral research fellow to help deliver embedding nature-centrism to enable 1) changing mindsets towards the interconnectedness of humans with other species, and 2) in changing metrics to qualitative resources beyond natural capital. In collaboration with our creative partners Furtherfield we will stage transdisciplinary workshops that 1) give actuaries an embodied experience of more-than-human interconnection through art and 2) assist them to develop novel qualitative scenarios for nature-risk accounting. The outcome is a co-designed Nature-centric Toolkit for Actuaries, which is promoted to the financial and policy sectors via a central London exhibition, and offered by the IFoA as a continuing professional development module to its 32,000 members.

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 17th December

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Lara Houston, Senior Research Fellow, at lara.houston@aru.ac.uk

We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that ARU will carry out online searches as part of the due diligence on short listed candidates.

We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working.

Guidance Notes:

Please download the Job Description Person Specification for key requirements. To apply, demonstrate how your skills and experience meet the criteria.