RESEARCH ASSOCIATE – CLIMATE SCIENCE IN URBAN DESIGN

UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Manchester Architecture Research Centre / Centre for the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE – CLIMATE SCIENCE IN URBAN DESIGN
Ref: HUM/91274

Salary £28,839 – 35,469 per annum

The post is to support the ESRC-funded project 'Climate Science in Urban Design:
a Historical and Comparative Study of Applied Urban Climatology'. You will work
under the direction of Professor Michael Hebbert in the Architecture Research
Centre, School of Environment and Development, and Dr Vladimir Jankovic in the
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology, Faculty of Life Sciences.

The project spans the disciplines of urban climatology and urban design, and
involves historical research as well as contemporary case studies in New York,
Manchester, Stuttgart and Yokohama. The post will be available from 1 January
2010 for twenty months in the first instance, and is suited to an early-career
researcher with experience in one or more aspects of this interdisciplinary project.

For more details of the research groups involved, please see the websites:
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/marc/
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm

Informal enquiries should be directed to Professor Michael Hebbert, +44 (0)161
275 6898 or email michael.hebbert@manchester.ac.uk; or to Dr Vladimir Jankovic,
email vladimir.jankovic@manchester.ac.uk

Application forms and further particulars are available to download at
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=166047

Completed applications and accompanying documents (as detailed in the further
particulars) should be sent to bethan.evans@manchester.ac.uk.

If you are unable to go online, you can request a hard copy of the details from
the Directorate of Human Resources, Humanities HR Lime Grove, The University of
Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL. Tel: +44 (0)161 275 8838; Fax: +44
161 275 2064; email: Humanitieshr@manchester.ac.uk

The University will actively foster a culture of inclusion and diversity and
will seek to achieve true equality of opportunity for all members of its community.

Closing date: Friday 30 October 2009
Interview date: Friday 13 November 2009