This is an exciting opportunity to join the City Sustainability Laboratory and to contribute to the research programme supported by the prestigious Leverhulme Programme Grant “Sustaining Urban Habitats: An Interdisciplinary Approach”. The aim of this programme is to develop a distinctively interdisciplinary approach to producing and evaluating scenarios for sustainable living in urban habitats. There is an urgent need to envision and investigate approaches to sustaining urban habitats; to transition existing cities in developed countries and to accommodate further growth in developing countries.

The research related to the theme “Urban Modelling and Optimisation” focuses on the development of a modelling framework that is sufficiently comprehensive and usable to enable project stakeholders to understand how to maximise the sustainability of real or hypothetical transition and growth cities with a view to informing city development policy. This includes (1) the development and testing of prototype models (combining conceptual modelling, agent based modelling and physical modelling of key resource conversion processes), (2) calibration of models, and (3) scenario testing and uncertainty analysis to inform policy and governance.

More information about the project is available here:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/environmental-physics-and-design/research/current-projects/leverhulme-project.aspx

Detailed information about the vacancies is available here:

PhD Studentship:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/ENG793

Research Fellow Vacancy:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI203114

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