{"id":154,"date":"2021-08-19T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/?p=154"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:25:11","slug":"job-opportunity-research-fellow-food-system-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/2021\/08\/19\/job-opportunity-research-fellow-food-system-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Opportunity: Research Fellow, Food System Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/applied-health\/frew-emma.aspx\">Professor Emma Frew <\/a>has recently been awarded a UKRI BBSRC consortium grant (\u00a36M) with Cambridge leading and in collaboration with Warwick, Exeter, LSHTM, UCL and King\u2019s College.\u00a0 The project is focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/2021\/01\/06\/mandala-food-systems-funding-04-01-21\/\">how to transform the UK food system for healthy people and a healthy environment<\/a> and the City of Birmingham is the setting for the research.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the project there is a Grade 8 post-doctoral researcher position for someone with strong quantitative skills, and an interest in food systems.\u00a0 It is a multidisciplinary team including environmental scientists, epidemiologists, health geographers, system modellers, statisticians, public health, and economics so it is a fantastic opportunity to be exposed to this way of working and engaging with local and regional policy makers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The post will be based within the newly-developed Centre for Economics of Obesity at University of Birmingham.\u00a0 It is fulltime until February 2026 and is available now.\u00a0 It is open to anyone with strong applied economics\/quantitative skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing date for applications: 15<sup>th<\/sup> September <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bham.taleo.net\/careersection\/external\/jobdetail.ftl?job=210000YF&amp;tz=GMT%2B01%3A00&amp;tzname=Europe%2FLondon\">Application form online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact Professor Frew for further information on this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emma Frew has recently been awarded a UKRI BBSRC consortium grant (\u00a36M) with Cambridge leading and in collaboration with Warwick, Exeter, LSHTM, UCL and King\u2019s College.\u00a0 The project is focused on how to transform the UK food system for healthy people and a healthy environment and the City of Birmingham is the setting for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/2021\/08\/19\/job-opportunity-research-fellow-food-system-transformation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Job Opportunity: Research Fellow, Food System Transformation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,11],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-evidence-based-policy","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cuwb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}