Food and Markets

Location:      Medway campus
Salary:      £33,199 to £38,460
Contract Type:      Permanent
Closing Date:      Tuesday 10 September 2019
Interview Date:      To be confirmed

Do you have what it takes to make an impact on global food and nutrition security? We are looking for exceptional candidates to help drive forward our work to improve the lives of poor people.

The Natural Resources Institute (NRI – https://www.nri.org/) of the University of Greenwich carries out specialised research, teaching, training and consultancy with a focus on food, agriculture, environment and sustainable livelihoods.

NRI is currently expanding its interdisciplinary research excellence to address food and nutrition security, especially in Africa. This expansion is funded by UKRI’s Research England under the ‘Expanding Excellence in England’ scheme. Elements of this new investment include new staff, PhD studentships, infrastructure and partnerships (see www.nri.org/FanSI). Investment will be across four specific areas:

• Climate Change, Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Sustainable Agricultural Intensification
• Food Loss and Waste
• Food Systems for Improved Nutrition

NRI’s work is globally respected and has won many awards including a recent Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education. The Institute is located at the University’s vibrant Medway Campus in Chatham Maritime, Kent.

NRI is looking to appoint a Fellow in Public Health Nutrition. The focus on the role will be on high quality research, with a possible contribution to teaching activities of up to 15%. There may also be opportunities to supervise postgraduate MPhil/PhD students. This role mainly contributes to our Food Systems for Improved Nutrition Programme.

Transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts. This particular role seeks to examine the impact of nutrition across population groups in developing effective food systems interventions. The work will have a global perspective, but emphasis will focus upon population groups in low and middle-income countries and as such the post-holder will be expected to have experience or demonstrated interest in international development and food and nutrition security. Experience in developing nutrition-sensitive strategies to address nutritional challenges, particularly in post conflict context, would be highly desirable.

Working as part of interdisciplinary teams the successful candidate will undertake research in public health nutrition that provides new knowledge and can guide future research, interventions and policy to tackle the underlying causes of food and nutrition insecurity in low- and middle-income countries.

It is anticipated that work will focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Previous experience in this region would be an advantage. International travel is an expectation of this role.

For informal enquiries, please contact the Head of Department (Dr Andy Frost (A.I.Frost@greenwich.ac.uk)) or Director of NRI (Professor Andrew Westby (A.Westby@gre.ac.uk).

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.