"Research Fellow"

About us

CAST is a global hub for understanding the crucial role that people play in fighting climate change.

We are a cross-institutional research centre with world-leading expertise in environmental psychology, behaviour change, public engagement, policy, governance, education, & more.

Our Centre is a vibrant community, committed to doing impactful research and to promoting an inclusive and positive working environment (see our EDI plan).

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Research Fellow to lead a programme of quantitative behavioural research to advance understanding of climate-relevant behaviour change & life choices.

The role will involve co-designing research with stakeholder partners, data collection and analysis, & disseminating findings to create impact.

This is a key role in a major new programme of social science research, funded by a philanthropic organisation, on People-Centred Climate Resilience (PCR).

The four-year programme aims to accelerate transformative, equitable, climate-resilient, low-carbon behaviour change by integrating individual and systemic approaches, developing and testing innovative composite interventions, and empowering diverse communities and stakeholders to drive sustained societal transformation across scales and sectors.

Our ideal candidate

You will be an experienced postdoctoral researcher with advanced quantitative social or behavioural science skills, including in experimental and survey design techniques and statistical analysis.

You will have expertise in climate change or environmental behaviour and behaviour change, experience of working with stakeholder organisations, and a portfolio of high-quality peer-reviewed journal publications.

You will have an undergraduate degree and a PhD degree in a relevant subject area.

Additional information

This full-time post is available for a fixed-term period of 48 months.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact:

Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh (lw2253@bath.ac.uk), or Dr Sam Hampton (sah53@bath.ac.uk).

As a member of Research Staff at the University of Bath, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance