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About the Role

We are seeking a Farm Sustainability Researcher to join an exciting, rapidly expanding international research project which seeks to reduce the environmental impacts of thousands of farms worldwide using digital tools. You will be part of the HESTIA team, a growing and motivated team of environmental scientists, software developers, and behavioural change specialists. The team is based within the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science in the Department of Biology and the Oxford Martin School.

 

About You

You will assist on the design and development of benchmarking and advice tools to support farmer decision-making. Your benchmarking and advice tools will form the foundation experimental trials which test whether enabling farmers to quantify their environmental impacts, benchmark against other farmers, and receive advice on how to improve their environmental impacts, affects their attitudes, behaviour and farm sustainability outcomes. You will design these tools by collaborating with an advisory group of farmers, and if desired there will be opportunities to visit farms and collect data. You will have a relevant graduate-level degree, experience researching sustainable farming and the ability to work with farmers.  Some travel within Europe will be required for fieldwork.

 

How to apply

Where Covid-19 has resulted in substantial disruption to your work or research outputs, please explain this by providing an additional paragraph in your supporting statement.

 

The University of Oxford is committed to equality and valuing diversity. All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.

 

This post is full time (although applications to work part time will be considered on a case-by-case basis) and available immediately.

 

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Wednesday 1st May 2024, interviews are likely to be scheduled for 14th May. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via our e-recruitment system, and you will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application.
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Milner-Gulland, Dr Harriet Bartlett Application deadline 12 noon Wednesday 1st May 2024 Vacancy reference 172087 Recruitment contacts HR: recruitment@biology.ox.ac.uk or PI: harriet.bartlett@smithschool.ox.ac.uk Additional information Whilst the role is a grade 7 position, we would be willing to consider candidates with potential but less experience who are seeking a development opportunity, for which an initial appointment would be at grade 6 (£32,332 – 40,521 per annum) with the responsibilities adjusted accordingly. This would be discussed with applicants at interview/appointment where appropriate. Research topic The environmental impacts of agriculture: Farm Sustainability Researcher Principal Investigator / supervisor Dr Harriet Bartlett Project team Prof E.J. Milner-Gulland, Dr Joseph Poore, Emily Hogg, HESTIA team https://www.hestia.earth/ Project web site https://hestia-fst.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/home https://www.iccs.org.uk/ Funding partner The funds supporting this research project are provided by the Login5 Foundation and Ardevora Poore, J. and Nemecek, T. 2018. Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. Science, 360(6392), pp.987-992. Recent publications Bartlett, Harriet, Andrew Balmford, James LN Wood, and Mark A. Holmes. "Identifying ways of producing pigs more sustainably: tradeoffs and co-benefits in land and antimicrobial use." Scientific Reports 13, no. 1 (2023): 2840. Travers, H., Walsh, J., Vogt, S., Clements, T. and Milner-Gulland, E.J. 2021. Delivering behavioural change at scale: What conservation can learn from other fields. Biological Conservation, 257, p.109092. The role We are seeking a Sustainable Agriculture Researcher to join an exciting, rapidly expanding international research project which seeks to reduce the environmental impacts of thousands of farms worldwide using digital tools. You will be part of the HESTIA team, a growing and motivated team of environmental scientists, software developers, and behavioural change specialists. The team is based within the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science in the Department of Biology and the Oxford Martin School. You will assist on the design and implementation of experimental trials of the HESTIA Farm Sustainability Toolkit. You will design benchmarking and advice tools for farmers which will be deployed in randomised control trials (RCTs) to test whether enabling farmers to quantify their environmental impacts, benchmark against other farmers, and receive advice on how to improve their environmental impacts, affects their attitudes, behaviour and real farm outcomes. You will design these tools by collaborating with an advisory group of farmers, and if desired there will be opportunities to visit farms and collect data. Some travel within Europe will be required for fieldwork. About the Project Agriculture is one of the biggest drivers of humanity’s environmental impacts. However, very few farmers measure their environmental impacts, such as their greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity impact, or the toxicity of the pesticides they use. Without measurement, neither farmers nor policymakers can make informed decisions about what to change. This project will provide the data and models behind the HESTIA data platform (http://hestia.earth/) to farmers to allow them to quantify their environmental impacts, benchmark against other farmers, and receive advice on how to improve performance. It is likely that we will deploy HESTIA data and models through software integrations with the digital tools farmers already use. We will then use experimental trials in Europe and other geographies to quantify how effective these HESTIAenhanced tools can be at changing farmer uptake of digital tools, intent to change practices (including both contributing data and changing agricultural practices), and potentially in reducing environmental impacts in a way that supports farmer livelihoods. We will also explore how the insights we gain from these trials could contribute to the development of policies to promote agricultural sustainability in Europe and worldwide. Responsibilities • Collate information on farm practices, environmental impacts, and behaviour-change science to design benchmarking and advice tools to give farmers information on their environmental impacts • Work with software developers to build these tools and integrate them with digital tools farmers use, and work with farmers to co-design these tools. • Manage own academic research and administrative activities. This involves small scale project management and coordination of multiple aspects of work to meet deadlines • Prepare working theories and analyse qualitative and/or quantitative data from a variety of sources, reviewing and refining theories as appropriate • Develop ideas for generating research income, and present detailed research proposals to senior researchers • Collaborate in the preparation of research publications • Represent HESTIA and present papers at conferences or public meetings • Act as a source of information and advice to other members of the group on methodologies or procedures • There will be opportunities for the post holder to carry out teaching and supervision within the Department of Biology, if desired. Selection criteria Essential selection criteria • Hold, or be close to completion of, a PhD/DPhil in a relevant subject (e.g. ecology, environmental science, geography, agriculture, psychology, behaviour change) or equivalent experience • Experience reviewing and collating information on environmental sustainability • Demonstrable enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, farming and sustainable agricultural practices. • Experience working in excel and handling datasets • Ability to independently plan and manage own research activities • Experience in contributing to scientific publications Desirable selection criteria • Experience working with farmers • Experience working with data on the environmental impacts of farming (e.g. Life Cycle Assessments) • Experience working with behaviour change science • Knowledge of farming systems in Europe • Experience in research with human participants – for example, assessing their perceptions and behaviours • Experience applying for funding . 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