The Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA), based in the Geography Department at King’s College London, will be responsible for enabling and supporting the development of a co-production approach for the Climate Change Resilient Equitable Healthy Cities in Africa (CLARITY-Africa) programme. The post holder will coordinate implementation of participative research and engagement in CLARITY workstreams, monitoring and reporting on the impacts of the research to participants and for academic audiences. The PDRA will collaborate actively with research partners in Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa, and stakeholders in focal cities. The co-production approach developed in CLARITY will build on the ‘loops and building blocks’ approach developed in the earlier PATHWAYS project (Audia et al., 2021) and on the CityLabs concept developed by the African Centre for Cities (UCT).
The CLARITY programme aims to generate novel transdisciplinary knowledge and trigger policies and practices that enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to the health effects of climate change in Africa’s cities. In partnership with policy and societal partners in four cities in Ghana (Accra and Tamale) and Rwanda (Kigali and Musanze), the project will co-produce novel and transformative knowledge on how climate change affects environmental risk exposures, and those who are vulnerable to such risks. The project will identify existing and new technologies, infrastructures, policies and practices that can enhance resilience and support adaptation to climate-change-induced health risks, and evaluate their feasibility, efficacy, enablers and equity in our focal cities.
The job advert is here and the description below. Closing date: 31 March 2025
Please contact Professor Frans Berkhout if you want to discuss the role (frans.berkhout@kcl.ac.uk)