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Job Offer: Research Fellow in Population Response to Global Flooding:Job description:Job location: Sussex, Brighton FixedTermEndDate: 30/04/2026 Working with Professor Phil Ashworth, together with the EvoFlood (evoflood.co.uk) team, and in particular Professor Stephen Darby (Southampton) and Professor Andy Tatem (Director of WorldPop, Southampton), you will advance the science of predicting global flood hazard and risk. In particular, you will integrate global population datasets, Global Flood Modelling (GFM) predictions and satellite imagery of flooded regions to quantify impacted populations from documented and simulated floods, population displacement from floods in cross-nation catchments, flood hazard and exposure of at-risk populations and assets, and future mobility in response to climate and enironmental change. You will contact with 10 other UK universities in the EvoFlood consortium, other RFs working on related work packages and an international group of end-users and community partners. The function is located in the vibrant School of Applied Sciences and is part of the £3.6m NERC-funded, 5-year, EvoFlood project. The project offers excellent support for conference attendance and team integrative events. We welcome applications from job sharers. Further details: The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, discapability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage candidates from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff. For the vast majority of our functions, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK. more information about working for us, as well as the wide variety of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page. Skills:
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