Job number ACAD104400
Division/School School of Law
Contract type Fixed Term
Contract Working pattern Full time
Salary £38017 to £42792 per annum

Closing date for applications 16-Feb-2020

The University of Bristol Law School is seeking to appoint an exceptional applicant to undertake research as part of an ambitious five-year programme that aims to reduce the burden of Non-Communicable Diseases linked to the built environment - including those associated with issues of environment and planetary health - through the transformation of the systems of city planning, development, and governance across the UK.

The research will involve the advancement and application of legal/regulatory expertise in the contexts of corporate governance, urban planning, administrative law, and public health law. The post-holder will have a research background in law, public administration, corporate governance, or similar, ideally with specialist knowledge in economic law, corporate law, regulation, or public health law that can demonstrably be applied in the context of UK urban environments. They will need to employ both doctrinal legal and regulatory analysis, and critical and interdisciplinary legal analysis. The latter will be informed by original, qualitative empirical research focused on stakeholders with material influence over the quality of the urban environment; particularly those in the public and private sectors in control of land, finance, delivery, planning permission and core policy/legislation involved in the Bristol and Greater Manchester case study areas.

The overall project is a large MRC-funded research consortium: the 5-year TRU3D project - Tackling the Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development. This began in October 2019 and is co-led by Public Health Professors Matt Hickman and Gabriel Scally, with urban development specialist and Programme Director Daniel Black. The project involves collaboration across a wide range of disciplines in addition to public health: urban studies, law, engineering, economics, management, real estate and lay public engagement across five universities (Bristol, Bath, UWE, Manchester and Reading).

The post-holder will be supervised by the Legal Research Lead within Work Package 1, and will work closely with the research leads from Work Package 3, including at the University of Bath’s School of Management and University of Reading’s Henley Business School, in relation to corporate characterisation. Specific research activities will include: a critical mapping of the legal and regulatory environments; literature reviewing; the conduct of semi-structured interviews/focus groups and thematic analysis using NVIVO or similar; management of specific work sub-packages; and disseminating findings at conferences and in journal articles.

Interviews anticipated w/c 09 March 2020

For informal enquiries, please contact: Professor John Coggon at john.coggon@bristol.ac.uk

We welcome applications from all members of our community and are particularly encouraging those from diverse groups, such as members of the LGBT+ and BAME communities, to join us.