Research Officer in Marine Environmental History/Marine Historical Ecology (70% FTE) at Bangor University

Applications are invited for a fixed-term, part-time (70%FTE) Research Officer in Marine Environmental History/Marine Historical Ecology in the School of Ocean Sciences as part of a cross-disciplinary research project integrating history and marine ecology to inform modern-day sustainable fisheries and marine ecosystem management.

Duties will include organising and carrying out a variety of desk-based research, research work with primary historical sources/in archives, fieldwork interviewing fishers and other stakeholders, extracting and synthesising data from a range of historical and biological/environmental sources, data analysis and report writing, organising workshops and stakeholder engagement.

Candidates should be educated to PhD standard (or equivalent) in either history/environmental history or related fields (e.g. archaeology, geography, history of science) OR natural sciences (inc. ecology, marine biology, fisheries) or be near completion.

The successful candidate will be expected to commence on 1^st November 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter, and the post is available for a period of 24 month.

This role will be located in the School of Ocean Sciences in Menai Bridge. Through our Dynamic Working framework, there will also be the option to spend some time working remotely (although remaining in the UK) to support work life balance, which will be discussed further with candidates at interview.

Applications will only be accepted via our on-line recruitment website, jobs.bangor.ac.uk via the above ‘Apply’ button. However, in cases of access issues due to disability, paper application forms are available by telephoning 01248 383865.

Closing date for applications: 23 August 2024

Informal enquiries can be made by contacting Dr Alec Moore, Lecturer in Marine Top Predator Conservation, School of Ocean Sciences a.moore@bangor.ac.uk

Committed To Equal Opportunities