ACDI Opportunities
Opportunities at, or through, the ACDI will be listed here as and when they are available. To view external opportunities read our opportunities newsflash which is updated monthly.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Climate Change and Sport
Application deadline: 14 April 2025
The Climate Risk Lab at ACDI is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore climate change risks to sport. This is an excellent opportunity for those with interest or experience in sport/physical activity or climate change risk research, and who want to push forward the frontiers understanding the risks and adaptation options for a sector of major economic and cultural importance globally.
The overall aim of the project is to link these key objectives in order to provide improved understanding of climate change risks and the options for adaptation to sport participants and decision-makers. Candidates will be encouraged to develop their own research ideas within the goals of the project. This can be across a variety of sports, such as tennis, football, surfing, golf, athletics, and cricket, among others. Research is focused on sport events and participants at all levels from amateur to professional, including youth. The PDRF will be advised by Dr Nicholas Simpson and Dr Christopher Trisos and will be based in the Climate Risk Lab at the African Climate and Development Initiative at UCT.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Climate Data Science
Application deadline: applications received by 10 March 2025 are guaranteed consideration
The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) and the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) are recruiting two postdoctoral research fellows (PDRFs) in climate data science, as part of a Wellcome Trust funded research project AFRIVERSE. AFRIVERSE aims to build African capacity and digital tools for climate-health impact attribution.
The PDRFs will be responsible for the development of a suite of climate data products for use in climate change attribution in Africa and for working with other project members to apply these data to health impact attribution case studies. Additionally, the PDRFs will undertake and publish independent extreme weather event attribution studies using the data they have generated.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Climate-Health Impacts Attribution
Application deadline: applications received by 10 March 2025 are guaranteed consideration
The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) and ASCEND are recruiting three postdoctoral research fellows (PDRFs) in climate change and health data analysis, as part of a Wellcome Trust funded research project AFRIVERSE. AFRIVERSE aims to build capacity and digital tools for climate-health impacts attribution in Africa, and to use these tools to undertake targeted climate-health attribution studies.
Each PDRF will work with a team of African and other international scientists to develop climate health epidemiological models, which will be used to detect and attribute climate-associated influences on human health outcomes. The PDRFs will work closely with both climate and health scientists in AFRIVERSE to undertake the climate-health attribution analyses.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Climate Change Attribution Communication
Application deadline: applications received by 10 March 2025 are guaranteed consideration
The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) is recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow (PDRF) in climate change communication, with a specific focus on impacts attribution. The PDRF will be a member of a Wellcome Trust funded research project AFRIVERSE, which aims to build African capacity and digital tools for attribution of health impacts to climate change and will use these tools to undertake a range of climate-health impact attribution studies.
The attribution communication PDRF will undertake research on impactful communication approaches for climate impacts and attribution studies. They will work closely with associated communications and knowledge translation experts based at ASCEND (UCT’s African Synthesis Centre for Climate Change, Environment and Development) and CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) in developing their research in ways that supports and addresses practical questions on real-world climate change communications needs.
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