Lecturer in Geospatial Science

The UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) is an exciting cross-UCL department, which leads research, knowledge exchange and teaching in the fields of risk and disaster reduction and humanitarian action. By providing a focus for UCL’s  activities the IRDR, with its breadth of disciplinary emphasis, promotion of novel multidisciplinary research and translation into practice, aims to assume a role of leadership both in the UK and internationally. 

The IRDR is an academic department in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, but works across all UCL’s faculties, spanning natural and social sciences, mathematics and statistics, engineering and development planning, global health, anthropology, the humanities, ethics and laws, and contributes to UCL’s Grand Challenges. It has a leading role in the UCL Humanitarian Institute.

The IRDR has established the Cascading Crises Group, Centre for Gender and Disaster, Conflict and Disaster Hub and the Centre for digital Global Health in Emergencies, and is developing research around the themes of disaster risk reduction and resilience, cascading crises, natural hazards, humanitarian crisis response, GIS and remote sensing, law, rights, and diplomacy, health in emergencies, hazard monitoring, analysis, and projection, warning, conflict, migration, climate change adaptation, catastrophe modelling and inclusivity including gender responsive resilience, in order to integrate education, research, innovation and enterprise for the long-term benefit of humanity, in order to integrate education, research, innovation and enterprise for the long-term benefit of humanity. 

The IRDR has received substantial research funding (£8 million+) in areas such as gender responsive resilience, digital health, hazard and risk uncertainty modelling and the Rohingya crisis. The main purpose of the job is to carry out research, teaching and administration within the IRDR, especially in the area of geospatial science, including advanced geospatial data analysis and programming, geographic information science and remote sensing, in disaster risk reduction and management, humanitarian and health crises, or insurance risk contexts, and to contribute to curriculum development and teaching on the new BSc Global Humanitarian Studies, MSc Risk and Disaster Science and MSc Risk, Disaster and Resilience. 

This is an open-ended academic position, available from 1st April 2022.

Key Requirements

The post holder should hold a PhD in a relevant field. They should have  a track record of high quality research especially in the areas of geospatial science in disaster risk reduction and management, humanitarian and health crises, or insurance risk contexts,. They should have the ability to deliver public presentations, as well as the ability to write clearly for a range of audiences.

They should be committed to high quality research, teaching, and fostering a positive learning environment for students. The appointment will be made at Lecturer (Grade 8) level. The post would be suitable as a first permanent university appointment.

Further Details

A job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page.

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If you would like to have an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Peter Sammonds, p.sammonds@ucl.ac.uk.

If you have any queries about the application process or are unable to apply online, please contact the departmental manager on irdr-enquiries@ucl.ac.uk.