Please see attached for a great position open at the University of British Columbia, and please feel free to circulate further.
Thanks so much, Kai -- Kai M. A. Chan, Assoc Prof & Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services) Graduate Advisor, RMES Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability AERL Rm 438, 2202 Main Mall University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Ph: 604.822.0400 Fax: 604.822.9250 [email protected]<applewebdata://70024294-7E8D-4733-9576-A62A9E7DAA6C/[email protected]> [email protected]<applewebdata://70024294-7E8D-4733-9576-A62A9E7DAA6C/[email protected]> www.ires.ubc.ca www.kchan.org My group: chanslab.ires.ubc.ca Confidential: for intended recipients only From: <Satterfield>, Terre Satterfield <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Monday, 17 September, 2012 1:12 PM To: Kai Chan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Stephanie Chang <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Hadi Dowlatabadi <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Leila Harris <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Mark Johnson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Milind Kandlikar <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "Oberg, Gunilla" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "Robinson, John" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Terre Satterfield <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "Zerriffi, Hisham" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "Wittman, Hannah" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, IRES - Associated <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, IRES - Faculty <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, IRES-Internal <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Gillian Harris <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: CRC II Position in Behavioural Sustainability Dear Colleagues Please see the attached and pasted ad (below) for our just announced position in behavioural sustainability to be appointed jointly with psychology. Please send this out as widely as possible, but at a the very least to your respective networks. Also, please cc myself or Gillian to record any list serves this may be posted with as we need to keep a list of these as part of our obligations to UBC procedures. Best and thanks Terre ******************** Theresa (Terre) Satterfield Director, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability Professor of Culture, Risk and the Environment 2202 Main Mall, 4th Floor University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 604-822-2333 Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Behavioural Sustainability The Department of Psychology (Faculty of Arts) and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (Faculty of Science) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver invite applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Behavioural Sustainability. Details about the CRC program are available at: http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/. We are seeking to hire an individual with an excellent research record skilled at any number of strongly empirical approaches including but not limited to experimental design, survey techniques, use of observational and natural laboratories, analysis of large data sets,biological and/or neuroscience approaches, agent-based or other computational modeling, simulation design and testing. The successful candidate will be jointly appointed in both units, at the rank appropriate to their level of experience, either Assistant or Associate Professor. For information about our research programs, please visit: http://www.psych.ubc.ca/ and http://www.ires.ubc.ca/. We welcome applications from candidates whose work focuses on any of the following areas or their equivalents: (1) Environmentally conscious behaviour: behaviour or behavioural change including those studying judgment and decision making, social learning or learning enhancement, motivation, social norms and/or their evolution, prosocial behaviour, resistance, incentives or uptake of new knowledge given varying environmental, policy, institutional, informational or physical (e.g., built environment) contexts; (2) Responses to environmental change: the quality of experience and human response to differing environments (e.g., noise, temperature, space); behavioural adaptation of unique populations, institutions or user groups (short and/or long term); adaptation to environmental change and/or variability; social limits or thresholds to behaviour change in a given environment or set of environmental conditions; (3) Environmental assessment and/or scholars of well-being: responses to different incentive structures, choice contexts, or behavioural economics as it intersects with behaviour centric environmental assessment or environmental change, including scholars of well being as it pertains to linked human-natural systems or transnational studies of well being, human development and environmental security. The anticipated start date for the position is July 1, 2013. The starting salary for the position will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The position is subject to final budgetary approval. The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to employment equity and diversity within its community. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, personswith disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productivelywith diverse communities. Applicants should upload a single PDF file (containing a cover letter, CV, research statement, teaching statement, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and 3 publications) tohttps://websec1.psych.ubc.ca/internal/faculty/jobappl/and complete the brief form found on that webpage. Next, applicants should arrange to have at least 3 confidential letters of recommendation submitted online (details provided at the above webpage). The closing date for applications is: 15 November 2012.
