Reminder: OECD CRP Call for Event Sponsorship and Fellowship Awards in 2025
This a reminder of the approaching deadline for applications to the OECD’s Cooperative Research Programme (CRP) call for international event sponsorship and research fellowship grants to be funded in 2025. Applications must be submitted by Tuesday 10 September 2024 (midnight, Paris time, CET). Please note too that since the call was launched in April, the OECD website has migrated to a new platform and that the CRP URLs have changed (new links are provided below).
The UK is amongst 30 OECD countries participating in the Cooperative Research Programme on Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems. The CRP supports research collaboration related to the sustainable use of natural resources in agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries. Applications should fit in to one of the following three research themes, full details of which can be found in the CRP’s research theme document:
- Managing natural capital
- Strengthening resilience in the face of multiple risks in a connected world
- Transformational technologies and innovation
For the 2025 call, the CRP would particularly welcome applications in any of the following areas:
- Sustainable and resilient productivity growth and food security and nutrition.
- Climate change mitigation, reducing emissions from agriculture and food systems, carbon sequestration in agriculture, forestry and land use.
- Halting and reversing forest loss and land degradation.
- Reducing the negative environmental impacts of livestock production and practices harmful to animal health and welfare, investigating the positive contribution livestock can make to soil quality and management, biodiversity and livelihoods.
- Biodiversity, enhancing ecosystem services.
- Improving soil health and water and air quality, including through agroecological and other innovative, context specific approaches.
- Innovations in the transfer and development of agricultural knowledge, including indigenous and traditional knowledge.
- Fisheries and aquaculture productivity, sustainability and resilience.
The CRP normally supports up to 10 events (conferences, symposia) and around 20 fellowships each year.
- The Event Sponsorship scheme aims to inform policy makers, industry and academia of current and future research, scientific developments and opportunities on issues relevant to the CRP and to OECD’s policy priorities - CRP funding supports the costs of invited speakers. A new CRP page sets out the application process for events. Information on previous sponsored events since 2020 can be found in a dedicated section on the CRP Home page.
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Fellowships aim to strengthen the international exchange of ideas and increase international mobility and cooperation. The CRP provides support through bursaries covering travel and subsistence costs to research scientists with 4 years postdoctoral training and who have a long-term renewable position. Fellowships may be from 6 to 26 weeks. A new CRP page sets out the application process for fellowships. Information on previous sponsored fellowships since 2020 can be found in a dedicated section on the CRP Home page.
Please note the importance of explicitly addressing all the selection criteria in your applications to increase the chances of success. Applicants are also strongly encouraged to discuss their proposal with the relevant Theme coordinator on the CRP Scientific Advisory Body prior to submitting an application, to ensure eligibility and fit to CRP objectives.
Further information also available from christopher.barker@defra.gov.uk
NCAS Job Opportunities
Job Opportunity: Research Scientist
Location: University of Reading
Salary: £34,980 – £44,263 (per annum)
Contract length: Fixed term until 31 December 2027
Contract type: Full time
Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 31 July 2024
Interview date: 04 September 2024
The University of Reading is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and ambitious researcher to improve our understanding of ice sheets as part of our changing Earth System.
The future evolution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will determine the severity of the global impacts of sea level rise and their physical interactions with the wider climate system include the potential to cross thresholds beyond which ice loss accelerates rapidly and becomes irreversible. This post focuses on simulating and understanding these climate tipping points involving ice sheets in UKESM, the UK’s national Earth System model. Working with other national modelling groups in two large Europe-wide projects you will design and carry out an ensemble of simulations in which large-scale changes to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are triggered, analyse the associated process interactions with the ocean and atmosphere and the global climatic consequences and assess the potential routes for avoiding or reversing these impacts. UKESM’s world-leading sophistication in its modelling of ice sheet – climate interactions means that your work will be breaking new ground at forefront of this important area of climate change research, so publication and wide dissemination of your findings will be a particularly important part of this role.
Alongside your role in two pan-European projects, you will work with a team of scientists within the world-class Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading and will be a part of the UKESM group: a network of scientists across the UK who develop and run the UK’s national Earth System Model from a range of national science centres including the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, British Antarctic Survey and the MetOffice. This position is funded by TipESM and OptimESM, projects funded by the European Union and UKRI. TipESM and OptimESM are funded by the European Union, Horizon Europe Funding Programme for research and innovation under GA Nr.101137673 and GA Nr.101081193. If you feel that any reasonable adjustments on our part would make applying for or carrying out this role more possible for you then please let us know when applying.
You will work within the National Centre for Atmospheric Science in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, one of the world’s largest research centres focusing on the science of weather and climate.
Apply Now Find out more and make your application. To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: Robin Smith, Associate Professor Email: r.s.smith@reading.ac.uk
Job Opportunity: Research Scientist in Climate Observations
Location: University of Reading
Salary: £33,966 to £44,263 per annum (depending on experience)
Contract length: Fixed term (up to 24 months)
Contract type: Full time
Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 21 August 2024
Interview date: September 2024 (to be confirmed)
We seek a motivated researcher to help improve long-term climate monitoring datasets as part of a joint UK-Ireland team. The British & Irish Isles have some of the longest and most detailed historical climate observations anywhere in the world. However, these observations are often not combined or analysed across national borders, or are unavailable to climate science. This project will produce and analyse one or more gridded observational datasets across the islands of Ireland & Britain, with a focus on rainfall. Additional activities in climate data recovery from archival sources may also be involved. You will work within the National Centre for Atmospheric Science in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, one of the world’s largest research centres focusing on the science of weather and climate. Collaborations with partners at the Met Office, Met Eireann and University of Maynooth are expected. The post is funded by the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water – a €40M collaboration for solutions focussed research into climate, biodiversity & water issues on the islands of Ireland & Great Britain.
Apply Now Find out more and make your application.
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: Professor Ed Hawkins, Professor of climate science Email: ed.hawkins@reading.ac.uk
Job Opportunity: Research Scientist in Extreme Weather Events
Location: University of Reading
Salary: £33,966 to £44,263 per annum (depending on experience)
Contract length: Fixed term (up to 36 months)
Contract type: Full time
Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 21 August 2024
Interview date: September 2024 (to be confirmed)
We seek a motivated researcher to develop storylines of extreme weather events, including their attribution. Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity, leading to more severe impacts. Understanding how these types of extreme event have already changed, and will change in the near-future, is of critical importance to inform decisions on adaptation. This project will develop a reanalysis-based approach to translate observed historical and recent extreme weather events into different climates to quantitatively describe how those weather events and their impacts would be different in warmer or cooler ‘counter-factual’ worlds. You will work within the National Centre for Atmospheric Science in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, one of the world’s largest research centres focusing on the science of weather and climate. This project is part of a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.
Apply Now Find out more and make your application.
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: Professor Ed Hawkins, Professor of climate science Email: ed.hawkins@reading.ac.uk
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