Research Associate – Climate Science in Urban Design, University of Manchester

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 School of Environment & Development and Dr Vladimir Jankovic in the Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology, School 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.
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