Dear Colleagues:

 

Please see advertisement below for The Post doc/research fellow positions @  the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s Institute for Environment & Sustainability, National University of Singapore

 

Research Fellow/Postdoc Fellow

 

The Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) at the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy has openings for exciting, cutting-edge, and problem-focused postdoctoral/research fellow positions in public policy and/or global environmental governance. We are looking for candidates whose research focuses on specific topics such as climate change, biodiversity, sustainable livelihoods, water and oceans, and who are familiar with sociological, historical, and rational choice institutionalism, path dependency analysis, policy mixes, and policy design. We are also seeking candidates who are experts in global and transnational environmental governance intuitions and processes, including policy innovations. Successful applicants will contribute to IES mission to advance “fit for purpose policy analysis”, and its emphasis on policy design capacity building and policy learning.

Successful applicants will contribute to IES’ burgeoning Climate Policy Design Lab (CPDL) and/or its  Center for Water Policy (CWP). The candidate will lead policy-relevant research projects, take responsibility for project and grant management, and contribute to stakeholder liaison and outreach of the Institute. All candidates should have a strong willingness to contribute to IES’s mission and to engage with new topics and research tools.

Those seeking further information to assess their potential for this position, are welcome to contact Dr. Sebastian Sewerin at sppv1559@partner.nus.edu.sg Please send your CV to express your interest.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Design, implement, and lead research projects under IES’s various research programmes

·         Prepare high-quality research papers on topics related to IES’s core research themes suitable for publication in high-tier academic journals

·         Contribute to grant and institute-level reporting requirements and funding proposals/applications

·         Provide support for IES’s events and outreach activities

·         Engage with policy and research communities in Singapore, Asia, and around the world

·         As problem focused environment and sustainability analysis requires integrating a diversity of knowledge and research, we welcome applicants who specialize in either qualitative or quantitative methods.

 

Requirements

 

 

Ben Cashore

Li Ka Shing Professor in Public Management

Director, the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

National University of Singapore

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Recent publications

 

2023 winner, with Sewerin and Howlett, Ken Young Prize for best article in 2021 volume of Policy and Politics for “New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy design, mix and feedback” Policy and Politics June 23, pp 1-18

 

2023 Timo Busch, Michael L. Barnett, Roger Burritt, Benjamin Cashore, Edward Freeman, Irene Henriques, Bryan W. Husted, Rajat Panwar, Jonatan Pinkse, Stefan Schaltegger (corresponding author), & Jeff York, “Moving beyond ‘the’ business case: How to make corporate sustainability work”, Business Strategy and the Environment, July 31st

 

2023 Altaf Virani, Azad Singh Bali, Benjamin Cashore, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh, “The design roots of policy problems: Unpacking the role of procedural tools in design fitness and resilience” Public Administration, March

 

 

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