ECHRN
EARLY CAREER HOUSING RESEARCHERS’ NETWORK
For early career researchers engaged in the study of housing, and its intersection with social theory, policy, urban design, inequality and change
: to promote the communication and dissemination of ideas, through a supportive medium, to early career housing researchers
The Early Career Housing Researchers’ Network (ECHRN) is an interdisciplinary, informal email network. Membership is open to all early career researchers (working in academia, public and private sectors) and PhD students, with research interests relating to housing and society.
The network operates as an independent email forum, linking members into key events and news in housing research. Members can also use the mailing list to ask each other for advice and support in conducting their research, and to promote events, publications and new research that they are involved in. Informal social events will be held, linked into housing conferences, to provide new researchers with an opportunity to meet face to face. The first such social event – the formal launch of the Network – will be at the Housing Studies Association Annual Conference (2 – 4 April 2008).
Early career researchers are encouraged to attend this important housing event, and present their work – further details are available at http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp/hsa/conf2008.htm There are reduced conference rates for those presenting in the ‘early career housing scholar’ stream – but please note the deadline for abstracts is the 20th January 2008. Hope to see you there!*
__________________________________________________________________________
To join the network please send a brief note of your name, research interests, institution and email address to:
Dr Carol Corinne McNaughton, Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, cm583@york.ac.uk
Or contact Regional Co-ordinators for more information:
Jamie Keddie Kirsteen Paton
PhD Candidate
London School of Economics University of Glasgow
Cities Programme Department of Urban Studies,
j.e.keddie@lse.ac.uk k.paton.1@research.gla.ac.uk
We are recruiting more regional co-ordinators across the country, and hope to develop the Network throughout Europe in the future – please indicate if you would like to act as a co-ordinator for your institution when you reply and we will contact you with more details.
*The network in independent from the HSA.
Wednesday 5 December 2007
PLACE SHAPING, SPATIAL PLANNING (FOR HOUSING) AND LIVEABILITY - Manchester
PLACE SHAPING, SPATIAL PLANNING (FOR HOUSING) AND LIVEABILITY - Manchester
Professor Cecilia Wong (Manchester University) and Nick Gallent would like
to invite you to attend a seminar at UCL on the 26th and 27th March 2008.
The focus will be *place shaping, spatial planning (for housing) and
liveability*. There are 13 speakers lined up over 2 days, who will speak
generally to these topics, provide case study presentations, discuss
different dimensions of urban liveability, and look at how quality in the
built environment (for communities) can be delivered.
If you would like to attend this event, which is free, please email Judith
Hillmore at UCL (j.hillmore@ucl.ac.uk) We need to know whether you wish to
attend for one or two days, so could you state *just 26th* or *26th and
27th* etc in your message. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, free
of charge, in UCL*s main building. If, subsequently, you are unable to
attend, please let them know. Space at the seminar will be limited to 60-
70 people. The event is being sponsored by the Regional Studies
Association.
We hope you can attend. Best wishes
Nick Gallent
Professor Cecilia Wong (Manchester University) and Nick Gallent would like
to invite you to attend a seminar at UCL on the 26th and 27th March 2008.
The focus will be *place shaping, spatial planning (for housing) and
liveability*. There are 13 speakers lined up over 2 days, who will speak
generally to these topics, provide case study presentations, discuss
different dimensions of urban liveability, and look at how quality in the
built environment (for communities) can be delivered.
If you would like to attend this event, which is free, please email Judith
Hillmore at UCL (j.hillmore@ucl.ac.uk) We need to know whether you wish to
attend for one or two days, so could you state *just 26th* or *26th and
27th* etc in your message. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, free
of charge, in UCL*s main building. If, subsequently, you are unable to
attend, please let them know. Space at the seminar will be limited to 60-
70 people. The event is being sponsored by the Regional Studies
Association.
We hope you can attend. Best wishes
Nick Gallent
Doing Race Conference
Doing Race:
an event exploring contemporary thinking around race and racisms
January 10th 2008
Department of Geography, Durham University
(Sponsored by the Social/Spatial Theory Research Cluster)
This one-day event aims to explore and develop innovative thinking on race and racisms. The
primary goal of the event is to produce a forum for conversation and engagement, and the day will
be organised around a series of conceptual, methodological and empirical interventions designed
to provoke and inform discussion. Themes to be addressed include:
- contemporary modalities of racism
- phenomenologies of race
- racisms of phenotype
- materiality and materialisations of race
- race and ethnography
- race and affect
- ethical engagements with/in/through difference
Confirmed speakers include:
- Claire Alexander
- Ash Amin
- Les Back
- Jason Lim
- Dan Swanton
Invitation to participate:
Places are limited so if you are interested in attending then please contact me for a registration
form or more details as soon as possible, and no later than Wednesday 12th December 2007.
There is a registration fee of £10 that includes lunch/tea/coffee.
Contact:
Dr Dan Swanton
ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Geography
Durham University
Science Site
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
d.j.swanton@durham.ac.uk
www.dur.ac.uk/geography
an event exploring contemporary thinking around race and racisms
January 10th 2008
Department of Geography, Durham University
(Sponsored by the Social/Spatial Theory Research Cluster)
This one-day event aims to explore and develop innovative thinking on race and racisms. The
primary goal of the event is to produce a forum for conversation and engagement, and the day will
be organised around a series of conceptual, methodological and empirical interventions designed
to provoke and inform discussion. Themes to be addressed include:
- contemporary modalities of racism
- phenomenologies of race
- racisms of phenotype
- materiality and materialisations of race
- race and ethnography
- race and affect
- ethical engagements with/in/through difference
Confirmed speakers include:
- Claire Alexander
- Ash Amin
- Les Back
- Jason Lim
- Dan Swanton
Invitation to participate:
Places are limited so if you are interested in attending then please contact me for a registration
form or more details as soon as possible, and no later than Wednesday 12th December 2007.
There is a registration fee of £10 that includes lunch/tea/coffee.
Contact:
Dr Dan Swanton
ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Geography
Durham University
Science Site
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
d.j.swanton@durham.ac.uk
www.dur.ac.uk/geography
Tuesday 4 December 2007
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007 UK - JRF Report
The New Policy Institute of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has
produced its tenth annual report of indicators of poverty and social
exclusion in the United Kingdom, providing a comprehensive analysis of
trends and differences between groups.
It has a nice summary webpage. It can be found at:
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/2164.asp
Its principal conclusion is that the strategy against poverty and
social exclusion pursued since the late 1990s is now largely
exhausted.
Key points
* Overall poverty levels in 2005/06 were the same as in 2002/03. Child
poverty in 2005/06 was still 500,000 higher than the target set for
2004/05.
* The unemployment rate among the under-25s has been rising since
2004, while the rate for those over 25 stopped falling in 2005.
* Half the children in poverty are still in working families.
* The number of children in working families where earnings and Child
Benefit are insufficient for them to escape poverty goes on rising.
* Overall earnings inequalities are widening.
* At least a quarter of 19-year-olds lack minimum levels of qualification.
* Not all those who want to work can do so, and disability rather than
lone parenthood is the factor most likely to leave a person workless.
* The value of social security benefits for working-age adults falls
ever further behind earnings.
* Half the poorest households lack home contents insurance, the same
as in the late 1990s when first identified by the government as a
priority.
* 1½ million children in poverty belong to households that pay full Council Tax.
* The public sector is the largest employer of low-paid workers aged 25 or over.
produced its tenth annual report of indicators of poverty and social
exclusion in the United Kingdom, providing a comprehensive analysis of
trends and differences between groups.
It has a nice summary webpage. It can be found at:
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/2164.asp
Its principal conclusion is that the strategy against poverty and
social exclusion pursued since the late 1990s is now largely
exhausted.
Key points
* Overall poverty levels in 2005/06 were the same as in 2002/03. Child
poverty in 2005/06 was still 500,000 higher than the target set for
2004/05.
* The unemployment rate among the under-25s has been rising since
2004, while the rate for those over 25 stopped falling in 2005.
* Half the children in poverty are still in working families.
* The number of children in working families where earnings and Child
Benefit are insufficient for them to escape poverty goes on rising.
* Overall earnings inequalities are widening.
* At least a quarter of 19-year-olds lack minimum levels of qualification.
* Not all those who want to work can do so, and disability rather than
lone parenthood is the factor most likely to leave a person workless.
* The value of social security benefits for working-age adults falls
ever further behind earnings.
* Half the poorest households lack home contents insurance, the same
as in the late 1990s when first identified by the government as a
priority.
* 1½ million children in poverty belong to households that pay full Council Tax.
* The public sector is the largest employer of low-paid workers aged 25 or over.
Monday 3 December 2007
Ethnographies of mobility-CALL FOR PAPERS
Roads less travelled: The culture of shared air, marine, and land
mobility
A series of important contributions to the international and
interdisciplinary study of mobility over the past decade have shown the
centrality of automobility in Western societies and cultures.
Automobility stands as an icon of individualized freedom of movement,
late modern lifestyle, reliance on transportation technology for daily
living, as well as the advent and downward-spiralling of pollution,
(sub)urbanization, and consumerism. The study of automobility also
stands as an exception to the generalized paucity of knowledge on the
cultures of other practices of mobility. In contrast, little do we know,
for example, about the sociological, media-ecological, and
anthropological significance of non-individual (hence, shared) land,
air, and marine mobility. Acquiring additional knowledge about these
forms of mobility seems necessary if we wish to comprehend the cultural
meaningfulness of alternatives to the patently unsustainable dominant
medium of transportation of the day, the car.
As fuel prices rise, as petrol becomes less easily available worldwide,
and as the reflexive feeling of citizen responsibility for sustainable
mobility grows, it behoves scholars to understand the symbolic
significance of car-less lifestyles and countercultures of immobility.
The proposed book will collect 12 original ethnographic studies written
from a wide variety of social scientific fields and interdisciplinary
social sciences. Submissions of proposals for papers dealing with the
culture of marine mobility, air mobility, shared land mobility, and
immobility are invited.
Ideal proposals for ethnographic studies would look at the role played
by the mentioned modes of mobility in the everyday life of individuals
living in precise geographical contexts. Essays would focus on the
logic, experience, and practice of alternative mobility and its shaping
of the senses of space, time, identity, and community.
Essay topics would include, but are not limited to, ferry-boat
transportation, the culture of year-round sailboat travellers, the
mobility options and movement practices of remote island communities,
the experience of regional, national, and international airline travel,
the practice of bush pilot air travel, train and subway commuting, urban
bus transit, long-range coach travel, and also the experiences and
lifestyle of immobile individuals--those who wish to "maroon" themselves
within the confines of a unique space.
The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2008. Proposals should consist of
200 word abstracts emailed to the editor, Phillip Vannini:
phillip.vannini@royalroads.ca
Expressions of interest, preliminary inquiries, and requests for further
information are welcomed at any time. Preliminary interest in the
project from an international publisher of academic titles has already
been expressed.
Phillip Vannini, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Communication and Culture
2005 Sooke Road
Royal Roads University
Victoria BC V9B 5Y2
CANADA
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mobility
A series of important contributions to the international and
interdisciplinary study of mobility over the past decade have shown the
centrality of automobility in Western societies and cultures.
Automobility stands as an icon of individualized freedom of movement,
late modern lifestyle, reliance on transportation technology for daily
living, as well as the advent and downward-spiralling of pollution,
(sub)urbanization, and consumerism. The study of automobility also
stands as an exception to the generalized paucity of knowledge on the
cultures of other practices of mobility. In contrast, little do we know,
for example, about the sociological, media-ecological, and
anthropological significance of non-individual (hence, shared) land,
air, and marine mobility. Acquiring additional knowledge about these
forms of mobility seems necessary if we wish to comprehend the cultural
meaningfulness of alternatives to the patently unsustainable dominant
medium of transportation of the day, the car.
As fuel prices rise, as petrol becomes less easily available worldwide,
and as the reflexive feeling of citizen responsibility for sustainable
mobility grows, it behoves scholars to understand the symbolic
significance of car-less lifestyles and countercultures of immobility.
The proposed book will collect 12 original ethnographic studies written
from a wide variety of social scientific fields and interdisciplinary
social sciences. Submissions of proposals for papers dealing with the
culture of marine mobility, air mobility, shared land mobility, and
immobility are invited.
Ideal proposals for ethnographic studies would look at the role played
by the mentioned modes of mobility in the everyday life of individuals
living in precise geographical contexts. Essays would focus on the
logic, experience, and practice of alternative mobility and its shaping
of the senses of space, time, identity, and community.
Essay topics would include, but are not limited to, ferry-boat
transportation, the culture of year-round sailboat travellers, the
mobility options and movement practices of remote island communities,
the experience of regional, national, and international airline travel,
the practice of bush pilot air travel, train and subway commuting, urban
bus transit, long-range coach travel, and also the experiences and
lifestyle of immobile individuals--those who wish to "maroon" themselves
within the confines of a unique space.
The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2008. Proposals should consist of
200 word abstracts emailed to the editor, Phillip Vannini:
phillip.vannini@royalroads.ca
Expressions of interest, preliminary inquiries, and requests for further
information are welcomed at any time. Preliminary interest in the
project from an international publisher of academic titles has already
been expressed.
Phillip Vannini, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Communication and Culture
2005 Sooke Road
Royal Roads University
Victoria BC V9B 5Y2
CANADA
Phone: (250) 391-2600 ext. 4477 (no voice mail)
Fax: (250) 391-2694
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‘EMPLOYABILITY AND LABOUR MARKET POLICY IN EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE’
REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION WORKING GROUP ON
‘EMPLOYABILITY AND LABOUR MARKET POLICY IN EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE’
CALL FOR PAPERS: SECOND SEMINAR
FACULTY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, MADRID, SPAIN
FRIDAY 7th MARCH 2008
ABOUT THE WORKING GROUP
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) Working Group on ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy in European Perspective’ seeks to bring together UK researchers with European colleagues to discuss the local and regional dimensions of labour market disadvantage and the employability policy agenda in European states. A successful first seminar, drawing participants from eight countries, was held at the Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh during October 2007.
This call for papers relates to a second seminar to be held at Complutense University, Madrid. Together, these two international seminars seek to build upon the success of a previous ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy’ seminar series (co-funded by the RSA) organised by Napier University, Warwick University, and Paisley University in 2003-4 (findings were published in a February 2005 special edition of Urban Studies journal). It is hoped that findings from the 2007-8 seminar series will lead to similar publications.
BACKGROUND
The second seminar of the RSA Working Group on ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy in European Perspective’ will be held at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, Friday 7th March 2008. This seminar will focus on the local and regional dimensions of labour market disadvantage and the employability policy agenda in European states. Comparative (cross-national or cross-regional) papers would be particularly welcome, but national or regional case studies will also be considered. Colleagues who participated in the first seminar in Edinburgh in October 2007 are encouraged to attend and/or contribute a paper, but new participants would also be very welcome.
The seminar is targeted at researchers interested in employability and labour market issues, drawing on specific local or regional contexts, and with a strong emphasis on lessons for and from policy. Papers addressing the policy implications of, and/or policy responses to, any of the following issues would be particularly welcome:
· changes in local/regional labour demand and implications for employability;
· spatial concentrations of unemployment and labour market disadvantage;
· barriers to employability and social inclusion in urban/rural labour markets;
· local and regional responses to the ‘flexicurity’ agenda;
· implementing the EES at the local and regional level – governance and strategies in labour market policy;
· factors affecting the recovery and/or continued disadvantage of areas affected by industrial decline, and implications for employability.
THE SEMINAR
The seminar format will involve seven presenters each delivering an extended paper, followed by discussion (i.e. seven sessions, each of 50-60 minutes duration).
· Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should be e-mailed to Colin Lindsay at the address below no later than Friday 21st December 2007.
· Notifications of acceptance of abstracts will be sent no later than Wednesday 9th January 2008.
· The seminar to take place at Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, on Friday 7th March 2008.
Abstracts to:
Colin Lindsay
Employment Research Institute
Napier University
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
United Kingdom
E-mail: c.lindsay@napier.ac.uk
‘EMPLOYABILITY AND LABOUR MARKET POLICY IN EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE’
CALL FOR PAPERS: SECOND SEMINAR
FACULTY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, MADRID, SPAIN
FRIDAY 7th MARCH 2008
ABOUT THE WORKING GROUP
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) Working Group on ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy in European Perspective’ seeks to bring together UK researchers with European colleagues to discuss the local and regional dimensions of labour market disadvantage and the employability policy agenda in European states. A successful first seminar, drawing participants from eight countries, was held at the Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh during October 2007.
This call for papers relates to a second seminar to be held at Complutense University, Madrid. Together, these two international seminars seek to build upon the success of a previous ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy’ seminar series (co-funded by the RSA) organised by Napier University, Warwick University, and Paisley University in 2003-4 (findings were published in a February 2005 special edition of Urban Studies journal). It is hoped that findings from the 2007-8 seminar series will lead to similar publications.
BACKGROUND
The second seminar of the RSA Working Group on ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy in European Perspective’ will be held at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, Friday 7th March 2008. This seminar will focus on the local and regional dimensions of labour market disadvantage and the employability policy agenda in European states. Comparative (cross-national or cross-regional) papers would be particularly welcome, but national or regional case studies will also be considered. Colleagues who participated in the first seminar in Edinburgh in October 2007 are encouraged to attend and/or contribute a paper, but new participants would also be very welcome.
The seminar is targeted at researchers interested in employability and labour market issues, drawing on specific local or regional contexts, and with a strong emphasis on lessons for and from policy. Papers addressing the policy implications of, and/or policy responses to, any of the following issues would be particularly welcome:
· changes in local/regional labour demand and implications for employability;
· spatial concentrations of unemployment and labour market disadvantage;
· barriers to employability and social inclusion in urban/rural labour markets;
· local and regional responses to the ‘flexicurity’ agenda;
· implementing the EES at the local and regional level – governance and strategies in labour market policy;
· factors affecting the recovery and/or continued disadvantage of areas affected by industrial decline, and implications for employability.
THE SEMINAR
The seminar format will involve seven presenters each delivering an extended paper, followed by discussion (i.e. seven sessions, each of 50-60 minutes duration).
· Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should be e-mailed to Colin Lindsay at the address below no later than Friday 21st December 2007.
· Notifications of acceptance of abstracts will be sent no later than Wednesday 9th January 2008.
· The seminar to take place at Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, on Friday 7th March 2008.
Abstracts to:
Colin Lindsay
Employment Research Institute
Napier University
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
United Kingdom
E-mail: c.lindsay@napier.ac.uk
Draft: Regeneration Institute Lunch-time Discussions Programme
Draft: Regeneration Institute Lunch-time Discussions Programme
Date Speaker Title Room
4 December 2007
1-2pm
Paul Milbourne 'Planting spaces, Growing Places: Exploring the role of environmental projects in regeneration' Committee Room 1
29 January 2008
12-1pm
Bob Smith 'Housing and its contribution to Regeneration' Committee Room 1
19 February 2008
12-1pm
Huw Thomas 'Race equality's continuing struggle in planning and regeneration' Committee Room 1
March 2008 Gareth Williams To be decided Committee Room 1
April 2008 Phil Bowen
(Engineering)
To be decided Committee Room 1
20 May 2008
12-1pm
Gabrielle Ivinson and Judith Marshall 'Intergenerational memories of education: using the symbolic resources of the locale' Committee Room 1
17 June 2008
12-1pm
Phil Jones (Architecture) 'Towards a low carbon future - what changes are needed' Committee Room 1
1 July 2008
12-1pm
Adam Edwards 'Vox Populi and the Eggheads: the interaction of popular-democratic and rational-bureaucratic technologies of governance' Committee Room 1
Date Speaker Title Room
4 December 2007
1-2pm
Paul Milbourne 'Planting spaces, Growing Places: Exploring the role of environmental projects in regeneration' Committee Room 1
29 January 2008
12-1pm
Bob Smith 'Housing and its contribution to Regeneration' Committee Room 1
19 February 2008
12-1pm
Huw Thomas 'Race equality's continuing struggle in planning and regeneration' Committee Room 1
March 2008 Gareth Williams To be decided Committee Room 1
April 2008 Phil Bowen
(Engineering)
To be decided Committee Room 1
20 May 2008
12-1pm
Gabrielle Ivinson and Judith Marshall 'Intergenerational memories of education: using the symbolic resources of the locale' Committee Room 1
17 June 2008
12-1pm
Phil Jones (Architecture) 'Towards a low carbon future - what changes are needed' Committee Room 1
1 July 2008
12-1pm
Adam Edwards 'Vox Populi and the Eggheads: the interaction of popular-democratic and rational-bureaucratic technologies of governance' Committee Room 1
RI lunchtime discussion
A reminder that the first Regeneration Institute lunchtime discussion is timetabled for this week:
Speaker: Prof. Paul Milbourne
Chair: Dr. Bob Smith
Subject: 'Planting spaces, Growing Places: Exploring the role of environmental projects in
regeneration'
Date/Time: Tuesday 4 December 2007, 1-2pm
Place: Committee Room 1
Feel free to bring your lunch along.
Speaker: Prof. Paul Milbourne
Chair: Dr. Bob Smith
Subject: 'Planting spaces, Growing Places: Exploring the role of environmental projects in
regeneration'
Date/Time: Tuesday 4 December 2007, 1-2pm
Place: Committee Room 1
Feel free to bring your lunch along.
New findings on the JRF website
Just published on the JRF website:
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007
This annual report on the state of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom covers low income, work, education, health, housing, disadvantaged children and exclusion from services.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007
This annual report on the state of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom covers low income, work, education, health, housing, disadvantaged children and exclusion from services.
Three New BRASS (ESRC) Research Centre Posts
Due to the expansion of our research at the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability,
Society and Sustainability (BRASS), Cardiff University, three new positions have become available
which may be of interest to members of the Critical Geography Forum. The areas are:
- Sustainable Communities, Lifestyles and Consumption
- Sustainable Production, Technology & Resource Use
- Responsible Management Thinking (Including Measuring and Reporting for Sustainability)
The primary purpose of these positions will be to further develop the portfolio of research being
undertaken and the outputs produced within this stream of research. Working in collaboration with
other Centre researchers, the successful applicants will become involved in a range of different
research projects. Specific activities are likely to include furthering existing ESRC funded
research; writing for publication; and assisting in the development of new research bids for
external funding. The successful applicant will also be expected to work closely with one of three
Research Managers in the Centre in publicising the work of the research group and promoting
knowledge transfer.
The positions offer an exciting opportunity for an early to mid-career researcher to further their
publication record, expand their knowledge base and gain experience in managing a research agenda.
The positions are available from February 1st 2008, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Salary: £27,466 - £32,796 per annum.
For further information, please click on the post you are interested in from the list below:
Research Associate for Sustainable Communities, Lifestyles and Consumption
http://www.cf.ac.uk/jobs/academic/20070831-131207.html
Research Associate for Sustainable Production, Technology & Resource Use
http://www.cf.ac.uk/jobs/academic/20070832-131207.html
Research Associate for Responsible Management Thinking (Including Measuring and Reporting for
Sustainability) http://www.cf.ac.uk/jobs/academic/20070830-131207.html
Society and Sustainability (BRASS), Cardiff University, three new positions have become available
which may be of interest to members of the Critical Geography Forum. The areas are:
- Sustainable Communities, Lifestyles and Consumption
- Sustainable Production, Technology & Resource Use
- Responsible Management Thinking (Including Measuring and Reporting for Sustainability)
The primary purpose of these positions will be to further develop the portfolio of research being
undertaken and the outputs produced within this stream of research. Working in collaboration with
other Centre researchers, the successful applicants will become involved in a range of different
research projects. Specific activities are likely to include furthering existing ESRC funded
research; writing for publication; and assisting in the development of new research bids for
external funding. The successful applicant will also be expected to work closely with one of three
Research Managers in the Centre in publicising the work of the research group and promoting
knowledge transfer.
The positions offer an exciting opportunity for an early to mid-career researcher to further their
publication record, expand their knowledge base and gain experience in managing a research agenda.
The positions are available from February 1st 2008, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Salary: £27,466 - £32,796 per annum.
For further information, please click on the post you are interested in from the list below:
Research Associate for Sustainable Communities, Lifestyles and Consumption
http://www.cf.ac.uk/jobs/academic/20070831-131207.html
Research Associate for Sustainable Production, Technology & Resource Use
http://www.cf.ac.uk/jobs/academic/20070832-131207.html
Research Associate for Responsible Management Thinking (Including Measuring and Reporting for
Sustainability) http://www.cf.ac.uk/jobs/academic/20070830-131207.html
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