Vacancy: Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Indigenous and Local Knowledges Royal Holloway University of London Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society.

Applications are invited for the post of Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Indigenous and local knowledge's within the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society.

The aim of the Centre is: to understand what factors govern wildfire regimes, including the sources, frequency, intensity, timing, and spatial pattern of fire; develop ways of predicting fire risks that include new biophysical understanding and account more reflexively for human-environment dynamics; quantify the impacts of fire on natural processes and human systems, including assessing their economic consequences and wider cultural meanings; and develop ideas for living with fire.

This post will involve the conceptualisation and development of a framework and methodology that explicitly considers Indigenous and local communities’ fire knowledges within larger scale models of fire dynamics. This will involve designing and undertaking a global analysis of studies undertaken on Indigenous and local fire management, and their different forms of knowledge. It will include gathering supporting evidence for Indigenous and local communities’ fire knowledges through social science methods including ethnographic assessments, participatory workshops, observational studies and quantitative data collection.

Applications due Sunday February 23 2020.

Note: The ISFMI is not affiliated with this position.

All queries should be directed via the details listed in the in the full vacancy announcement.