Postdoctoral Fellowship
Spatial Analysis of Linked Social-Ecological Systems
The University of New England
Armidale NSW
Position No: 202/142a

Salary: $46,429 to $49,857 per annum (Level A, Base +5 to Base +7)
plus up to 17% employer superannuation and salary packaging

The University of New England, as Australia’s first oldest regional university, has a long
history of excellence in research across many major fields of study.

The Vice-Chancellor has initiated a series of Postdoctoral Fellows to support the University’s research priorities. Each of the Fellows appointed will be joining a strong research group to which he or she will make a significant contribution.

This is the initial round of Postdoctoral Fellowships. Postdoctoral Fellowships in other key
areas will be advertised next year.

Each Fellowship is supported by a $5,000 research fund and is available for a fixed term
period of 3 years.

The proposed postdoctoral fellow will build on the developing work of the Institute for Rural
Futures in understanding and synthesising the combinatorial complexities of ecological and social functions that operate across landscapes at different scales, leading to design of improved systems of resource governance and citizen and community representation.

This is a specialised area of research requiring the applicant to demonstrate knowledge and experience across several theoretical and disciplinary research areas relevant to spatial analysis and GIS, but with particular strengths in: Design, application and analysis of spatially even social surveys; Digital mapping and analysis of community attributes to build social surfaces of non-metropolitan regional Australia; Ecological regionalisation techniques and integration of social spatial data; and Spatial statistics in GIS and in spatial modelling techniques.

It would be advantageous if the prospective Postdoctoral Fellow also possesses an ability
and willingness to collaborate and build future collaborative projects and seek funding; have
an understanding of the environmental, social and economic pressures of change facing rural Australia; and have the potential to contribute to further design principles for processes and evaluation of alternative landscape futures and redesign.

For further details about this position, please contact Professor David Brunckhorst, Director or Brendan Doyle, Assistant Director, Institute for Rural Futures on telephone
(02) 6773 2220 or email dbrunckh@metz.une.edu.au OR bdoyle2@metz.une.edu.au

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A position description and application details are available from: http://www.une.edu.au/personnel/recruit

Closing Date: 30 September, 2002
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