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Scientific and non-academic panel members.

• Flexible and remote
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• Expedition Science

Help us Think Different and Fund Different. We are looking for academic and non-academic panellists for our Ocean, Forest, Mountain and Polar panels.

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Life Sciences Director

• Leeds, West Yorkshire
• Competitive
• UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

As a pivotal member of the RDN national leadership team, you will embody visible, dynamic, and effective senior leadership.

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Creative Technologist in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) (x2)

• Grade 6 - £44,682 - £49,598 per annum, including London weighting
• THE ROYAL CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA

Central is seeking two Creative Technologists, who will be core members of the newly founded Centre for Performance, Technology & Equity (PTEQ).

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Lecturer (Teaching) in Economics of Project Management

• City of London
• £51,474 - £60,521 per annum + see advert text
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

University College London (UCL) wishes to appoint a Lecturer (Teaching) in Economics of Project Management.

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IT Security Operations Manager

Central is seeking an experienced IT Security Operations Manager to manage and handle all aspects of IT security operations.

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Policy Fellow, AI Governance (Standards and Regulation)

• The annual salary is £55,184 - £56,779 plus excellent benefits
• THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE

Generating research & thought leadership on standards & regulation for AI that encompasses technical as well as non-technical considerations.

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Prospect Research Officer (UK Charity)

• London (Central), London (Greater)
• £35,000 per annum
• CIVITAS RECRUITMENT

Civitas Charity Recruitment are delighted to be working with a central London Diocese involved in a range of projects assisting the local communiti...

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Training and Education Lead

• London/Hybrid
• £30,000 - £31,500 per annum (pro-rated for parental cover)

We are looking for two Training and Education Leads to work for an exciting organisation, one permanent and one parental cover (6 months).

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Project Manager, Research Medical Grants

• Up to £44100 per annum
• TPP RECRUITMENT

Do you consider yourself a Project Manager that is used to driving projects and stakeholders forward in a Research Grants setting?We are collaborating

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WMT Urban Research Unit

The urban research unit prepares incisive analysis to support clear-eyed understanding of places and people..

Our multi-disciplinary team of researchers in the Urban Research Unit contribute to an integrated approach when creating responsive area strategies, masterplans and delivery of impactful projects. The team also provide independent, trusted and thorough intelligence with particular expertise relating to social value, high streets, local economies, industry and culture.

Our research spans a diverse range of projects using observation, mapping, engagement, surveys, audits and data analysis. As part of the wider We Made That team, the Urban Research Unit shapes our collective thinking, ensuring we are locally-informed and impact-driven in all our proposals.

Landmark studies include:

• London's first comprehensive study of artists' workspace
• Exploring the social value of London’s 602 high streets
• Granular employment audits of over 1,400ha of employment land, 3,500+ businesses and 52,000+ jobs in London
• Evidencing £40bn of spending per year by London's creative industries within the supply chain across the UK
• Mapping 2,138 spaces that host and support cultural and creative activities across the West Midlands.

These studies have influenced innovative policies on industrial intensification and co-location, pro-culture planning policies and led the way in defining the case for exciting and experimental uses across high streets and public spaces.

Selected Projects

Charlton Riverside Employment and Heritage Study

Revealing existing employment and heritage in a Thames-side regeneration area

Creative Supply Chains Study

Quantifying the wider impacts of the creative and cultural sectors

West Midlands Cultural Infrastructure Map

Mapping spaces for culture and creativity in the West Midlands

London Made

Exploring the links between London’s culture and industry

High Streets & Town Centres Adaptive Strategies

Innovating responses to contemporary high street challenges

High Streets For All Study

Understanding the social value of London’s high streets and how they can be more inclusive

Industrial Intensification and Co-Location Guidance

Testing innovative industrial planning policies to deliver the space London needs

London Legacy Development Corporation Workspace Guidance

Defining the context and conditions for successful workspace

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Our clients are committed to meeting the challenges of delivering meaningful change. We enjoy collaborative working relationships with our clients and partners. Together, we aim to be open, responsive and tenacious.

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Planning Officer (Design and Public Realm)

Contract type: Permanent

JTP is an award winning, international placemaking practice of architects and masterplanners.

From our studios in London and Bristol we undertake placemaking projects at every scale, from cities and towns, to neighbourhoods, streets and the design of individual buildings.

JTP is creating a number of new neighbourhoods and new settlements at both outline planning and detailed design stages and are looking to recruit an experienced urban designer who is as excited as we are about the creation of new sustainable places.

Park Hood is a well-established Landscape Architectural practice, with offices in Belfast, London and Dublin.

With an expanding portfolio in our London office, including local and international projects, we are seeking new team members to assist with delivering our project work and to meet the continued strong demand for the company’s services in various sectors.

The position(s) will be considered for our London based offices, with the successful candidate(s) expected to travel within Ireland, the UK and occasionally to Europe.

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Research Consultant (Urban Solutions) 2024

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate.

With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

Our expertise in infrastructure includes aviation, highways and bridges, planning and advisory services, ports, rail and transit, tunnels, and water. Want to be part of the creation and construction of our cities? Then the infrastructure team is for you!

At Hatch we are hiring Research Consultants for our Urban Solutions team in London and Manchester. Our Urban Solutions Team sits within our Infrastructure business unit and is the economics, urban planning and real estate strategy arm of Hatch, delivering strategic economic development services to public and private clients.

In the UK our Urban Solutions team works closely with our Environmental and Advisory groups, and the successful candidates will be encouraged to work on projects in these other divisions as well as Urban Solutions.

Are you passionate about making a positive difference for people, places and economies? Do you want to work with some of the best economists, strategists and urban regeneration consultants in the UK and internationally? Hatch has long experience of hiring great graduates. Many progress within our company into senior roles with opportunities to work on projects across the UK and internationally.

As a Research consultant you will work as part of high-performing teams delivering innovative solutions to private and public sector clients. Recent projects have included supporting Aviva Investors to develop an innovative social value framework, a new economic strategy for the city of Oxford, and an impact assessment of BT’s UK operations.

We offer the opportunity to work at the heart of the UK’s drive for a sustainable future. Our advice to our clients directly influences positive change, helps them to secure investment and capture the impacts of what they do. Our team works on a range of interesting, innovative, and inspiring consultancy projects, across sectors including employment, industrial sectors, skills, innovation, infrastructure, energy, land and property, culture, leisure and tourism.

Specifically you will work in an integrated team making a vital contribution to the evidence, insights and advice we provide, with responsibilities including collecting and analysing economic and social data, reviewing policy and research, supporting project consultations, active participation in client, stakeholder, and team meetings, survey design, mapping, and economic and social impact modelling.

Hatch is committed to developing your capabilities and will give you great opportunities to use your skillset whilst working on some of the most important challenges facing the world. Our consultants and analysts support our clients by:

• Defining the future: We provide forward thinking about city futures and place-making, working on strategies, visions, investment and delivery plans.
• Securing investment: We support our clients to secure investment in projects by preparing business cases and economic appraisals.
• Assessing impacts:We enable our clients understand their impacts through social value and economic impact assessments, strategies to maximise the economic and social benefits they deliver, and evidence that helps make their case.
• Establishing what works: We identify lessons to improve performance and increase impacts through the evaluation of programmes, projects and organisations.

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Our people are the heart of our business, and we are looking for exceptional new members of our team who have:

• A real appetite for understanding economic, social, environmental and technological change and how this will affect the future
• A keen interest in using intelligence, data and analysis to help our clients make informed choices about strategy and investment
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• Ability to problem solve and think through complex questions

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We provide full training and support to develop your career, with opportunities to work with and learn from colleagues across our UK and international offices. You will receive a structured training programme to develop your practical and technical skills for consultancy, with hands on project experience from the moment you join us.

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Don't meet every single requirement? You don't need to. At Hatch, we are building a diverse, inclusive workplace that fosters innovation. If you're interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if your past experiences don't perfectly align with the skills we've listed.

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• University of Amsterdam (UvA) via AcademicTransfer
• Posted on: 19 June 2024

Junior Researcher 'The Cultural Politics of Mobility Transitions in London and Barcelona'

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We are looking for a junior researcher to conduct qualitative research for the Knowledge Frontiers project (British Academy, UK) entitled ‘Towards post-growth cities: the cultural politics of mobility transitions in London and Barcelona’, which examines contestations of progressive green urban mobility initiatives, which we cautiously consider to be potential post-growth mobilities initiatives, i.e. aimed at curbing the propensity towards endless economic growth in cities, in a socio-ecologically just and equitable way. We focus more specifically on a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) in Islington, London and a superblock in Eixample, Barcelona as case studies, that have been the object of contestation and countermobilization. We will examine these contestations from an explicitly cultural lens, combining, as per the requirements of the grant, social science and humanities theories and methodologies. More specifically, we aim to draw on urban history, affect (and non-representational) theories and literatures around sociocultural imaginaries, while relying on archives, participant observation, interviews and document analysis for data collection purposes. With this interdisciplinary, cultural political framework, we aim to contribute to and enrich the emerging field of post-growth planning and mobilities. In particular, the research assistant will conduct empirical in the context of Barcelona, and in particular around a contested superblock in the neighbourhood of Eixample. The research assistant will also assist in co-write academic articles for the project. Importantly, while the position is officially for 0.21FTE, roughly one working day per week, this time will be spread rather unequally over the two years, with more intense 20 days of fieldwork in Barcelona, most likely in March/April and July/August 2025 (exact dates TBD), and less work allocated the rest of the time. You will be part of a team that involves an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE Cities), the University of Vigo and the University of Amsterdam. What you are going to do

• contribute to literature review on post-growth urban planning and mobilities as well as on urban cultural politics (the overall heuristic framework is elaborated by the core research team);
• set up, schedule and conducting participant observation at local planning and activist meetings;
• discourse analysis of online discussion forums;
• set up, schedule and conduct semi-structured interviews with local stakeholders, identified through snowballing techniques, i.e. local groups involving residents, business owners, policymakers, and planners.
• conduct around 20 days of fieldwork (probably 2*10 days) in Eixample, Barcelona;
• contribute to experimental participatory workshop in London and Barcelona (taking place in months 16-18, 3 days in each city);
• assist with dissemination of results on social media, academic conferences, policy brief;
• co-write academic journal articles with the core research team.

What do you have to offer Required skills

• a master’s in a social science or humanities subject, for instance human geography, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, history, philosophy… Preference given to a research master’s or a master’s degree with clear research components;
• experience in conducting qualitative research (interviews, participant observation);
• willingness to travel to Barcelona for fieldwork purposes;
• proactivity and high degree of organisation with regards to organising the fieldwork in Barcelona; ability to take leadership role in specific subtasks such as setting up interviews;
• a research interest in post-growth transitions, urban mobilities and/or cultural politics and affect theories;
• high level of Catalan highly preferred (B2+), but we will consider those with high levels of Spanish (B2 and above);
• ability to carry out trans-disciplinary research.

Desirable skills

• excellent writing skills in English;
• experience in teamwork and collaborative research;
• ability to engage with different theoretical frameworks from the social sciences and humanities: such as post-growth/degrowth, mobilities, affect theories, cultural theories;
• capacity to contribute to dissemination activities (e.g. seminars, webinars, workshops).

We cannot accept remote work. It is thus recommended to be in the proximities of the Amsterdam region. You must already live in the Netherlands and are entitled to work here. What can we offer you The position concerns an employment contract of 0.21 FTE (roughly 8 hours) for a maximum term of 2 years. The initial contact will be for 1 year, after 12 months we will assess your performance and, upon positive assessment, extend your contract to a maximum of 2 years. The salary range would be a scale 10, ranging from € 3.226,00 to € 3.539,00 per month, based on fulltime employment of 38 hours per week. What else do we offer As a research assistant, at the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development studies, you will enjoy a range of educational and research activities. We will offer:

• a highly collaborative environment, both within the international consortium and within the Urban Planning Research Group;
• support in preparing the next steps of your career after the research assistant position;
• support in improving your publications record as well as in developing your own research profile;
• the possibility to develop your experience in international research settings. You will be fully integrated in the international research of PI on urbanization and degrowth, which takes place in many countries;
• an enthusiastic and engaged research environment both within and outside the University. You will be invited to be involved in policy debates on circular economy and degrowth both in The Netherlands and in the city of Amsterdam.

About us The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 39,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral students who are all committed to a culture of inquiring minds. A challenging work environment with a variety of duties and ample scope for individual initiative and development within an inspiring organization. The social and behavioural sciences play a leading role in addressing the major societal challenges faced by the world, the Netherlands and Amsterdam, now and in the future. Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam. Questions Do you have any questions, or do you require additional information? Please contact:

• Dr Elisa Schramm, post-doctoral researcher, GPIO, Amsterdam. [email protected] .

Job Application Do you recognise yourself in the job profile? Then we look forward to receiving your application/motivation letter and resume in one pdf by July 14, 2024. We expect to do selection interviews with shortlisted candidates in the third week of July. Applications in .pdf should include:

• a curriculum vitae;
• A cover letter outlining your motivation to join this project (max. 500 words).

The UvA is an equal-opportunity employer. We prioritise diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We value a spirit of enquiry and perseverance, provide the space to keep asking questions, and promote a culture of curiosity and creativity. No agencies please. If an ‘Error GBB451’ occurs, please click here for more information and help.

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Qube Research and Technologies: The hedge fund on a hiring spree

Qube Research & Technologies is well established in the quantitative the hedge fund world, having been founded in 2016, but it's expanding rapidly. The fund, spun off from a systematic trading team at Credit Suisse, added $4bn in AUM, between the start of 2024 and May, and returned 22% from January to April according to Business Insider . In the process, it's been hiring wildly. Three years ago, it employed just 229 people in its head office in London . Now, it has reached 1,100 employees globally. 

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Who is Qube hiring? And what's it like to work there?

We've spotted around 215 people join Qube already this year, 104 are based in the UK, after it recently moved to a new office in Victoria. 

Qube is a quantitative hedge fund , so it's not surprising that it likes to hire quants and technologists. Recent hires include Gabriel Ditu, a senior engineer from Balyasny , who joined this month.  Seven of its London hires in 2024 have previously worked at Credit Suisse, including two MDs: Zohar Melamed and Mike Hill. 

Qube recently opened a Dubai office, having registered there in August 2023, with eight 'authorised individuals' according to the Dubai register DFSA. Additional employees include former Millennium quant developer Wenzhen Du, who's not on the list, but relocated there from New York in January, according to the register.

Qube has also hired at least 32 employees across Hong Kong and Singapore this year. Senior hires include ex-Citadel quant developer Mengchi Jia, and Sahil Aggarwal, a former executive of Millennium spinout Worldquant. The most prominent, as we previously reported, was Citadel Securities' Francois Jeulin.

Qube declined to comment for this article, but it seems its hiring is nowhere near finished. It has over 100 job openings including for a wide array of traders, and developers using Python, C# and C++. It's also hiring interns in nine separate locations. Interns at Qube can earn around $12k per month . Qube also has a number of roles open in its crypto team.

Qube, as a young hedge fund, is also full of (relatively) younger employees. 74% of staff are aged 40 or under, and 38% of staff are aged 30 or under, according to its 2024 ESG report, published this month. 

Qube salaries and bonuses 

Accounts filed with Companies House suggests pay fluctuates. From 2019 to 2022, yearly profit rose and headcount steadily grew, but 'wages and salaries' per person doubled, then halved, then doubled again. 

Qube's 2024 ESG report stated that upwards of 40% of the firm's staff are part of a "deferred compensation plan" and have "exposure to the performance of funds managed by QRT." There are complaints online about non-competes that can seemingly be 9-10 months most of the time, but we have seen periods both higher and lower. Other funds, for reference, have non-competes that can go up to two years.

Qube describes itself as "a fertile ground for experimental research, fostering disruption and exploring new territories," and staff seem to appreciate the fertility. It's currently rated 3.9 stars from 5 on Glassdoor, with compensation and career opportunities being the key highlights of working there. It conducted an anonymous survey alongside its ESG report, where 90% of staff (from a 45% response rate) said their teams had good morale. It may suit some people more than others. "DNA is so utterly... French" says one review. French employees presumably see this as an upside.

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