Nine postdoctoral research positions | Turing Shocks and Resilience Project
Please see below details of 9 postdoctoral positions. Potential candidates are welcome to contact Professor Ben Macarthur bdm@soton.ac.uk directly.
Shocks and resilience
We are hiring nine postdoctoral research fellows to work on a large collaborative project to measure the societal impact of the Covid-19 crisis and build resilience against future shocks.
The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted how vulnerable societies and governments are to shocks. This vulnerability is exacerbated by the propensity to design policy for narrow siloes relating to singular policy areas and government departments, without adequate consideration of the interdependencies between them and the interconnected nature of local and global societies. The pandemic has brought into focus that resilience in one policy area (e.g. health) can come at the cost of resilience in another (e.g. the economy). The overall aim of this large-scale, 3-year research project is to develop a better understanding of resilience in interconnected health, social, and economic systems and to use this understanding to identify robust policy measures.
The project brings together multidisciplinary expertise from across the Turing community, including in health, public policy, economics, and urban analytics. We are hiring nine postdoctoral research associates for this project, who will work collaboratively to develop a rigorous understanding of societal responses to shocks and a clear strategy for how to engender policy resilience. To achieve our aims, we will require reliable, consistent, real-time, fine-grained data sources, as well as integrative, highly-granular models that bring together policy areas and cross disciplinary boundaries.
The Shocks and Resilience project consists of the following five work packages, and we are hiring nine postdoctoral research associates (PDRAs) in total:
1. Modelling COVID-19 (2 PDRAs)
2. Learning causality and dynamics in interconnected systems (2 PDRAs)
3. Spatial modelling (2 PDRAs)
4. Generalised models for resilient policy-making (2 PDRAs)
5. Engagement, implementation, and dissemination to policy-makers (1 PDRA)
We recommend reading the project’s website and all the job descriptions related to this project. Taking the time to do so will ensure that you are applying for the post that most closely matches your interests and experience.