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)<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/er2wefpgaq6l99srrqf5u/V5MLedits-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<mailto: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
* Ph.D. in Public Policy, Political Science, Global Affairs, Environmental Policy, or
a related field.
* Excellent analytical skills with knowledge of anticipatory policy design and
practice, including path dependency analysis
* Preference for those with good and relevant publication records/working papers
* Excellent verbal and written English
* Good time management skills and ability to multi-task effectively
Ben Cashore
Li Ka Shing Professor in Public
Management<https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/our-people/faculty/benjamin-william-cashore>
Director, the Institute for Environment and Sustainability
(IES)<https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/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<https://policyandpoliticsblog.com/2023/03/28/policy-politics-an…
for “New pathways to paradigm change in public policy: combining insights from policy
design, mix and
feedback<https://doi.org/10.1332/030557321X16528864819376>” 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”<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.3514>14>, 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<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/padm.12924&g… Public
Administration, March
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