Dear all, I am looking for a data scientist to work with myself and Slava Jankin at the University of Birmingham as part of the Wellcome Trust-funded Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change<https://lancetcountdown.org/> project, contributing to our understanding of how societies engage with and respond to climate-health challenges. The postdoctoral position is for 48 months on a full-time basis. The research fellow would be based at The Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/centre-for-artificial-intelligence-in-government> (CAIG) at the University of Birmingham, and would be affiliated with the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/bisca/home-page> (BISCA). The main duties will be to: * Lead the development and refinement of global indicators for tracking public and political engagement with climate change and health * Manage and analyse complex datasets for the Lancet Countdown's online indicator platform * Provide methodological guidance to regional teams on data collection and analysis * Contribute to academic publications and funding applications * Support the review and development of WG5's indicator framework We are looking for someone with a strong data science/computational social science background (PhD in political science, computational social science, public/global health, or related discipline). Experience working on issues related to climate change and/or health would be desirable. Further details on the position (including how to apply) are available here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP924/research-fellow-in-data-science-for-climate-change-and-health-lancet-countdown. The deadline for applications is 25th February. Feel free to email me with questions (n.dasandi@bham.ac.uk<mailto:n.dasandi@bham.ac.uk>) Best wishes, Niheer -- Niheer Dasandi Professor of Global Politics and Sustainable Development Deputy Head of Research (People, Culture & Environment Lead), School of Government<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government> University of Birmingham 1143, Muirhead Tower, Birmingham, B15 2TT Tel: +44 (0)121 415 1058<tel:+441214151058> UoB profile: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gov/dasandi-niheer.aspx website: niheerdasandi.net<http://www.niheerdasandi.net/> twitter: @NiheerDasandi<https://twitter.com/niheerdasandi?lang=en>